-
Rasputin was
styled starets by his followers,
although he was not
generally recognised as one. A more
modern example of a
starets is
Archimandrite John...
- 1897
transformed him. There, he met and was "profoundly humbled" by a
starets (elder)
known as Makary.
Rasputin may have
spent several months at Verkhoturye...
-
monastery was in its
spiritual heyday. His
first guide was
Starets (Elder)
Leonid and then
later Starets Makary, whom
Ambrose shared a cell with. This gave him...
-
Pskov Oblast) was a
Russian Orthodox Christian and
reputed myrrh-bearing
starets and priest.
Numerous miracles and
healings are
ascribed to him. Nikolay...
-
Bartholomew had
great difficulty learning to read. His
biography states that a
starets (spiritual elder) met him one day and gave him a
piece of
prosphora (holy...
-
Tadej (Thaddeus) of
Vitovnica (10
October 1914 – 13
April 2003) was a
Serbian Orthodox elder and
published author,
credited for
proposing the idea that...
- (Gr****: Γέροντας) is an
Elder in the Gr****
Orthodox Church,
similar to the
Starets of the
Russian Orthodox Church. They are
usually monks,
particularly Hieromonks...
- In the
Slavic tradition, the
title of
Elder (Church Slavonic: старецъ,
Starets) is
normally reserved for
those who are of an
advanced spiritual life,...
-
truth of the
accusation Nicholas' wife
relied on
Rasputin (a
Siberian starets.) The
authority of the tsar, who now
stood as a
moral weakling, sank further...
- romanized: Pravednyy
Feodor Kuzmich Tomskiy, Sibirskiy,
starets) was a
Russian Orthodox starets. He was
canonized as a
righteous saint by the
Russian Orthodox...
