I fell in love with suffering …: Saint Luke Crimean (Voyno-Yasenetsky)

This book introduces the reader to the bright personality of St. Luke (in the world of Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky, 1877-1961), the archbishop of Simferopol. He was not only a wonderful shepherd, but also an outstanding surgeon, professor, laureate of the Stalinist prize in medicine of the first degree (1946). He accepts the priesthood and episcopal rank in the most terrible years for the church. He had been raised by what any Russian Orthodox bishop of the first half of the 20th century was experienced: reproach, prison, camps, exiles, exile, torture.
“I fell in love with suffering,” he wrote in one of his letters. With these words, the book of his memories is named.

Author
Saint Luke Crimean (Voyno-Yasenetsky)
Publisher
Inaccessible lamp, 2013