St. Seraphim of Sarov

ISBN: 0913836281

Author: Zander, Valentine

Condition: Used

Orthodox spirituality has produced many holy and famous men, but none in recent centuries to compare with St Seraphim, starets of the monastezry of Sarov, in Russia. His humility and his concern for people made Sarov a center of pilgrimage until the events of the 1917 revolution. Mme Zander has constructed his biography from the notebooks of people who knew him, the nuns whose spiritual director he became, the people whose lives he influenced, and the clergy who sought his advice. She adds her own recollections of pilgrimages to Sarov before 1917. The life of the starets is told with a touching simplicity that allows his life and work to be their own witness.