Tsarist debtor. The young years of St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov). Eremina E.N.

as a child, the Bryanchaninov brothers had a favorite game: to run on and fight. Demetrius, the oldest in this company, never boasted his strength, on the contrary, always told his brother: “Do not succumb. Resist. Fight to the end. ”

And the whole life of Dimitri Bryanchaninov - the future St. Ignatius - was a struggle, external and internal, overcoming difficulties, in order to dignily fulfill the duty to which, according to him, he was called from childhood wonderful vocation and indescribable mercy. " The novice in a remote monastery, a hegumen, restoring a ruined monastery, archimandrite, who revived the former glory of the St. Petersburg Trinity-Sergius Desert, a bishop of a distant diocese, raising a feat of spiritual writing. But all this will be later. And at the beginning, there were these words: “Do not give in... fight to the end.”