Seraphim Sarovsky. Stepashkin V.

For the first time in the series “Life of wonderful people”, the biography of one of the greatest saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, is released. His popular veneration during his lifetime reached incredible heights, the veneration of the ascetic in the modern world is striking - the old man’s icons are not uncommon in the Catholic and Protestant temples around the world.

. The author of the book can rightfully say: “He extended the earthly The life of St. Seraphim. " It was his research that put an end to a long -standing dispute of historians - in what year Prokhor Moshnin was born, in monasticism Seraphim. The arguments of the researcher, expressed back in 2000 at a scientific conference in Nizhny Novgorod, and then published in the book “Rev. Serafim Sarovsky: Traditions and Facts”, were recognized as the priesthood of the Russian Orthodox Church substantiated, and in 2004 the all-Russian celebration of the 250th anniversary of the 250th anniversary from the day the birth of the Monk Seraphim.

. The book allows you to look at the saint from a historical point of view, freeing his biography from captivity of myths and delusions.