The spiritual pharmacy of the elder John (peasant). Instructions, lessons, prayers

Six years, Father John, according to one priest, “nurtured the whole of Russia.”

The future old man was born in 1910 and was the eighth and last child in the family of Orlov bourgeois Mikhail Dmitrievich and Elizabeth Ilarionovna peasant. Since childhood, he grew up in the church: at the age of six, he was a severide, then performed the duties of a mortgage. Vladyka Yeletsky Nikolai (Nikolsky), having heard that his twelve -year -old Hypodiacon wants to be a monk, said: “First you graduate from school, work, then you will take a dignity and serve, and at one time you will certainly be a monk.”