The man of God. The feat of St. Alexy. Khitrov M.V.

The book offered to your attention is the reprint of the famous composition of Archpriest Mikhail Ivanovich Khitrov (1851-1899) “St. Alexy, the Man of God”, who went out of the press in Moscow in 1893.

in this book in artistic form tells of the life and feat of St. Alexy, born in Rome in the second half of the 4th century. In a rich family and under the influence of Christian ideas, who went to the east, to the city of Edessa, where he, having distributed his property, spent seventeen years in post and prayer.

Returning back to Rome, St. Alexy lived in the position Unrecognized in the house of their parents is another seventeen years. And only after the capture of Rome by the Westgotes in 410, when difficult times came for its inhabitants, the voice of God pointed out to the worshipers: “Look for a man of God to pray for Rome and all the people of him.”

is so famous The feat of St. Alexy.