Kozelsk, Kaluga Province, Russia, March 4, 2022
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Optina Monastery announces that it is actively collecting testimonies of miracles worked by the prayers of some of its beloved inhabitants, including the three monks who were martyred on Pascha morning in 1993.
Though not officially canonized by the Church, Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov), Monk Trophim (Tatarinov), and Monk Therapont (Pushkarev) are especially loved, and the chapel that holds their relics is a special place of pilgrimage and veneration.
Read more about these holy martyrs in the article, “Participants in the Eternal Pascha.”
OrthoChristian also published about several of their miracles in 2016.
The monastery is also collecting stories about others “who left a special mark in its history,” including Archimandrite Benedict (Penkov), abbot of the monastery from 1990 to 2018, who reposed in January 2018; Igumen Theodore (Trutnev), who labored at the monastery from the time of its reopening until his repose in 2003; and Hierodeacon Iliodor (Gairiyants), a monk of Optina from 1989 until his repose in October 2020, affectionately known as the “Voice of Optina.”
Stories and testimonies (with documentary evidence, if possible) can be sent to the email of the monastery’s publishing house: izdat@optina.ru, with the subject: “сбор материалов.”
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