4/29/2022
Nun Angelina, Liudmila Terskaya
The monks characterize this murder as a ritual one.
Twenty-eight years ago, on April 29, 1994, George Yefimchuk, a pilgrim from Tolyatti, was brutally murdered in Optina Monastery. The young man arrived in Optina in mid-March with the intention of spending Great Lent in the monastery, celebrating Pascha and, if God willed, to join the brethren. Did he know what rank the Lord had prepared for him to join?