Elder Barsanuphius of Optina akathist Perhaps more than anyone else

Perhaps more than anyone else in our times

for seven different icons of the Mother of God

and of God’s presence in the intense suffering he experienced

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she lived in this world ‘as alive from the dead’ (Cf

Elder Barsanuphius of Optina akathist Perhaps more than anyone elseElder Barsanuphius (18451913), a disciple of Elder Anatole (Zertsalov) and Elder Nektary, was a highly cultured man and a successful colonel before entering the monastic life at a relatively late age. Due to his purity of heart and spiritual sobriety, he was transformed by God into a grace filled Elder virtually overnight. The period before the first World War and the Russian Revolution was a complex one. The world was seething in unprecedented