Canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in the host of new martyrs and confessors of Russia for church-wide veneration in 2000; memory - May 29 according to the Julian calendar.
Biography
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Born on April 27 (May 9), 1877 in Kerch, in the family of pharmacist Felix Stanislavovich Voino-Yasenetsky (according to some sources, until 1929, the double surname of Valentin Feliksovich was written as Yasenetsky-Voino), who came from an ancient and noble, but impoverished Polish noble family family and was a devout Roman Catholic. The mother was Orthodox and did works of mercy. As the saint wrote in his memoirs, he inherited religiosity from his father. Future priest For some time he was interested in Tolstoyism, wrote to the count asking him to influence his mother, who was trying to return him to official Orthodoxy, and suggested leaving for Yasnaya Polyana. After reading Tolstoy’s book “What Is My Faith,” which was banned in Russia, I became disillusioned with Tolstoyism. However, he retained some Tolstoyan-populist ideas.
After graduating from high school, when choosing a path in life, he hesitated between medicine and drawing. He applied to the Academy of Arts, but, after hesitating, decided to choose medicine as more useful to society. I tried to enter the Faculty of Medicine at Kiev University, but did not pass. He was offered to go to the Faculty of Science, but he preferred the Faculty of Law (since he never liked either biology or chemistry, he preferred the humanities to them). After studying for a year, he left the university and studied painting in Munich at the private school of Professor Knirr. After returning to Kyiv, ordinary people painted from life. Observing his suffering: poverty, poverty, illness, he finally decided to become a doctor in order to benefit society.
In 1898 he became a student at the Faculty of Medicine of Kyiv University. He studied well, was the head of the group, and was especially successful in studying anatomy: “The ability to draw very subtly and my love for form turned into a love for anatomy... From a failed artist, I became an artist in anatomy and surgery.”
At the end of it, during the Russo-Japanese War, he worked as a surgeon as part of the Red Cross medical detachment in a military hospital in Chita, where he married a nurse at the Kyiv military hospital, Anna Vasilievna Lanskaya, the daughter of an estate manager in Ukraine. They had four children.
He was motivated by Tolstoy’s idea of populism: to become a zemstvo, “peasant” doctor. He worked as a surgeon in the city of Ardatov, Simbirsk province, in the village of Verkhny Lyubazh, Fatezh district, Kursk province, in the city of Fatezh, and from 1910 - in Pereslavl-Zalessky. During this work, I became interested in the problem of pain management during operations. I read the book by the German surgeon Heinrich Braun “Local anesthesia, its scientific basis and practical applications.” After which he went to Moscow to collect materials to the famous scientist, founder of the journal "Surgery" Pyotr Ivanovich Dyakonov. He allowed Voino-Yasenetsky to work at the Institute of Topographic Anatomy. Valentin Feliksovich dissected, honing the technique of regional anesthesia, for several months and at the same time studied French.
In 1915, he published the book “Regional Anesthesia” in St. Petersburg with his own illustrations. The previous methods of soaking everything that needs to be cut in layers with an anesthetic solution have been replaced by a new, elegant and attractive technique. local anesthesia, which was based on the deeply rational idea of interrupting the conduction of the nerves through which pain sensitivity is transmitted from the area to be operated on. In 1916, Valentin Feliksovich defended this work as a dissertation and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. However, the book was published in such a low print run that the author did not even have a copy to send to the University of Warsaw, where he could receive a prize for it.
He continued practical surgery in the village of Romanovka, Saratov province, and then in Pereslavl-Zalessky, where he performed complex operations on the bile ducts, stomachs, intestines, kidneys, and even on the heart and brain. He also performed eye surgeries and restored sight to the blind. It was in Pereyaslavl that he conceived the book “Essays on Purulent Surgery.” In the Feodorovsky convent, where Valentin Feliksovich was a doctor, his memory is honored to this day. Monastic business correspondence unexpectedly reveals another side of the activity of the disinterested doctor, which Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky did not consider it necessary to mention in his notes.
Here are two letters in full where the name of Dr. Yasenetsky-Voino is mentioned (according to the then accepted spelling):
"Dear Mother Eugenia!
Since Yasenetsky-Voino is actually the doctor of the Feodorovsky Monastery, but I am apparently listed only on paper, I consider this order of things offensive for myself, and refuse the title of doctor of the Feodorovsky Monastery; I hasten to notify you of my decision. Please accept the assurance of my utmost respect for you.
Doctor... December 30, 1911 "
"To the Vladimir Medical Department of the Provincial Administration.
With this, I have the honor to most humbly inform you: Doctor N... left his service at the Feodorovsky Monastery entrusted to my supervision at the beginning of February, and with the departure of Doctor N..., doctor Valentin Feliksovich Yasenetsky-Voino is constantly providing medical assistance. At large quantities living sisters, as well as members of the families of clergy, need medical help and, seeing this need of the monastery, the doctor Yasenetsky-Voino submitted a written application to me on March 10 to donate his work free of charge.
Feodorovsky maiden monastery, Abbess Evgeniy."
Making a decision on gratuitous medical care It could not have been a random step on the part of the young zemstvo doctor. Mother Abbess would not have found it possible to accept such help from young man without first being convinced that this desire comes from deep spiritual motives. The personality of the venerable old woman could make a strong impression on the future confessor of the faith. He might have been attracted by the monastery and the unique spirit of the ancient monastery.
Beginning of pastoral activity
Since March 1917 - chief physician of the Tashkent city hospital. In Tashkent, he was struck by the religiosity of the local population and began attending church. He led an active surgical practice and contributed to the founding of the Turkestan University, where he headed the department of operative surgery. In October 1919, at the age of 38, Anna Vasilievna died. Valentin Feliksovich grieved the death of his faithful friend, believing that this death was pleasing to God. After this, his religious views strengthened:
“Unexpectedly for everyone, before starting the operation, Voino-Yasenetsky crossed himself, crossed the assistant, the operating nurse and the patient. Lately he always did this, regardless of the patient’s nationality and religion. Once, after the sign of the cross, a patient - a Tatar by nationality - said to the surgeon: “I am a Muslim. Why are you baptizing me?” The answer was: “Even though there are different religions, there is one God. Under God, everyone is one.”
Two sides of one fate
In January 1920, a diocesan congress of clergy took place, where he was invited as an active parishioner and a respected person in the city. At this congress, Bishop Innocent invited him to become a priest, to which Valentin Feliksovich agreed. He hung an icon in the operating room and began coming to work in a cassock, despite the displeasure of many colleagues and students. On Candlemas (February 15), 1921, he was ordained a deacon, and a week later - a presbyter by Bishop Innokenty (Pustynsky) of Tashkent and Turkestan. In the summer of 1921, he had to speak publicly in court, defending Professor P. P. Sitkovsky and his colleagues from charges of “sabotage” brought by the authorities.
In the spring of 1923, in the Turkestan diocese, most of the clergy and churches recognized the authority of the Renovation Synod (the diocese came under the control of the Renovation Bishop Nicholas (Koblov)); Archbishop Innocent, after the arrest of a number of “old church” clergy, left the diocese without permission. Father Valentin remained a faithful supporter of Patriarch Tikhon, and the decision was made to make him the new bishop. In May 1923, Archpriest Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky was secretly tonsured as a monk in his bedroom by exiled Bishop Andrei (Ukhtomsky), who had the blessing from Patriarch Tikhon himself to select candidates for episcopal consecration, with the name of the holy Apostle Luke (according to legend, also a doctor and an artist).
On May 31, 1923, on the instructions of Bishop Andrei (Ukhtomsky), being only a hieromonk, he was secretly ordained bishop in Penjikent by two exiled bishops: Daniil (Troitsky) of Bolkhov and Vasily (Zummer) of Suzdal; a week later he was arrested on charges of connections with the Orenburg White Guard Cossacks and espionage for Great Britain across the Turkish border.
Valentin Feliksovich expressed his attitude towards Soviet power in one of his further letters:
“During the interrogation, the security officer asked me about my political views and my attitude towards Soviet power. Having heard that I had always been a democrat, he posed the question bluntly: “So who are you - our friend or our enemy?” I answered: “Both friend and enemy . If I had not been a Christian, I would probably have become a communist. But you led the persecution of Christianity, and therefore, of course, I am not your friend."
Bishop Luke was sent to Moscow to consider the case. There, during the consideration of the case, he met twice with Patriarch Tikhon, and he confirmed his right to practice medicine. He was in Butyrskaya prison, then in Taganskaya. At the end of the year, a stage was formed and sent to Yeniseisk. Vladyka refused to enter the churches there, occupied by living church members, and performed divine services right in his apartment. In Yeniseisk, he also worked in a local hospital, famous for his medical skills.
Having learned about the 75th anniversary of the great physiologist, academician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the exiled professor sent him a congratulatory telegram on August 28, 1925.
The full text of Pavlov’s response telegram to Voino-Yasenetsky has been preserved:
“Your Eminence and dear comrade! I am deeply touched by your warm greeting and offer my heartfelt gratitude for it. In difficult times, full of persistent sorrow for those who think and feel humanly, there remains only one support - fulfilling the duty one has assumed to the best of one’s ability. I sympathize with all my heart To you in your martyrdom. Ivan Pavlov, sincerely devoted to you."
Yes - it worked out unusual situation: Archbishop Luke is in exile in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and the ideas of professor-surgeon V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky are spreading not only in the Soviet Union, but also abroad. In 1923, the German medical journal "Deutsch Zeitschrift" published his article on a new method of artery ligation when removing the spleen (English) Russian, and in 1924, in the "Bulletin of Surgery" - a report on good results early surgical treatment of purulent processes in large joints.
An exile followed - to Turukhansk, where Vladyka again continued his medical and pastoral activities. The GPU sent him to the village of Plakhino between Igarka and Dudinka. But due to the demands of the residents of Turukhansk, Professor Voino-Yasenetsky had to be returned to the local hospital. In January 1926, the exile ended, and Bishop Luka returned to Tashkent.
After his return, the bishop was deprived of the right to engage in teaching activities. Metropolitan Sergius tried to transfer him first to Rylsk, then to Yelets, then to Izhevsk (apparently, according to instructions from above). In the fall of 1927, Luka was Bishop of Yeletsk and vicar of the Oryol province for about a month. Then, on the advice of Metropolitan Arseny, Bishop Luke submitted a request for retirement. On Sundays and holidays He served in the church and received the sick at home. On May 6, 1930, he was again arrested on charges of murdering Professor Mikhailovsky and transferred to Arkhangelsk. There he discovered a new method for treating purulent wounds, which became a sensation. The saint was summoned to Leningrad and Kirov personally persuaded him to take off his cassock. But the bishop refused and was returned to exile. Released in May 1933.
He arrived in Moscow only at the end of November and immediately appeared at the office of the Locum Tenens Metropolitan Sergius. Vladyka himself recalled it this way: “His secretary asked me if I would like to occupy one of the vacant bishop’s sees.” But the professor, yearning for real work in exile, wanted to found the Institute of Purulent Surgery, he wanted to pass on his enormous medical experience. In the spring of 1934, Voino-Yasenetsky returned to Tashkent, and then moved to Andijan, where he operated, lectured, and headed the department of the Institute of Emergency Care. Here he falls ill with papatachi fever, which threatens loss of vision (a complication was caused by retinal detachment of the left eye). Two operations on his left eye did not bring results; the bishop is going blind in one eye.
In the fall of 1934, he published the monograph “Essays on Purulent Surgery,” which gained worldwide fame. For several years, Professor Voino-Yasenetsky headed the main operating room at the Tashkent Institute of Emergency Care. On July 24, 1937, he was arrested for the third time on charges of creating a “Counter-revolutionary church-monastic organization” that aimed to overthrow Soviet power and restore capitalism. Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia Boris (Shipulin), Archimandrite Valentin (Lyakhodsky) and many other priests were also involved in this case. In prison, the bishop is interrogated using the “conveyor belt” method (13 days without sleep) with the requirement to sign reports of denunciations against innocent people. The bishop goes on a hunger strike that lasts 18 days, but does not sign a false confession. Valentin Feliksovich was sentenced to five years of exile in Krasnoyarsk region(and Archbishop Boris (Shipulin), who signed the confession and falsely denounced Vladyka Luka, was shot).
Since March 1940, he has been working as a surgeon in exile at the regional hospital in Bolshaya Murta, which is 110 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk (the local church was blown up, and the bishop prayed in the grove). At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he sent a telegram to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Kalinin:
“I, Bishop Luka, Professor Voino-Yasenetsky... being a specialist in purulent surgery, can provide assistance to soldiers at the front or rear, where I am entrusted. I ask you to interrupt my exile and send me to the hospital. At the end of the war, I am ready to return to exile . Bishop Luke."
Since October 1941, he was a consultant to all hospitals in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the chief surgeon of an evacuation hospital, performing the most complex operations on wounds with suppuration (in Krasnoyarsk school No. 10, where one of the hospitals was located, a museum was opened in 2005).
Serving at the Krasnoyarsk Department
On December 27, 1942, the Moscow Patriarchate made a determination: “The Right Reverend Archbishop Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), without interrupting his work in military hospitals in his specialty, is entrusted with the management of the Krasnoyarsk diocese with the title of Archbishop of Krasnoyarsk.” He achieved the restoration of one small church on the outskirts of Nikolaevka (5-7 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk). Due to this and the virtual absence of priests during the year, Vladyka served the all-night vigil only on major holidays and evening services of Holy Week, and before regular Sunday services he read the all-night vigil at home or in the hospital. Petitions were sent to him from all over the diocese to restore churches. The archbishop sent them to Moscow, but received no answer.
In September 1943, elections for the Patriarch took place, at which Bishop Luka was also present. However, he soon refused to participate in the activities of the Synod in order to have time to operate larger number wounded. Later he began to ask for a transfer to European part USSR, citing worsening health in the Siberian climate. The local administration did not want to let him go, tried to improve his conditions - he settled in the best apartment, opened a small church in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, delivering the latest medical literature, including in foreign languages. At the end of 1943, he published the second edition of “Essays on Purulent Surgery”, and in 1944 - the monograph “On the Course of Chronic Empyema and Chondrates” and the book “Late Resections of Infected Gunshot Wounds of Joints”, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree. The fame of the great surgeon is growing, they are already writing about him in the USA.
Serving at the Tambov Department
In February 1944, the Military Hospital moved to Tambov, and Luka headed the Tambov See, where the Bishop dealt with the issue of restoring churches and achieved success: by the beginning of 1946, 24 parishes were opened on May 4, 1944 during a conversation at the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of People's Commissars USSR Patriarch Sergius with the Chairman of the Council Karpov, the Patriarch raised the question of the possibility of his moving to the Tula diocese, motivated this need by the illness of Archbishop Luke (malaria); in turn, Karpov “informed Sergius of a number of incorrect claims on the part of Archbishop Luke, his incorrect actions and attacks.” In a memo to the People's Commissar of Health of the RSFSR Andrei Tretyakov dated May 10, 1944, Karpov, pointing out a number of actions committed by Archbishop Luka that “violated the laws of the USSR” (hung an icon in the surgical department of evacuation hospital No. 1414 in Tambov, performed religious rites in the office premises of the hospital before performing operations ; On March 19, he appeared at an interregional meeting of doctors of evacuation hospitals dressed in bishop’s vestments, sat down at the chairman’s table and in the same vestments made a report on surgery and other things), indicated to the People’s Commissar that “the Regional Health Department (Tambov) should have given an appropriate warning to Professor Voino- Yasenetsky and not allow the illegal actions set forth in this letter."
He achieved the restoration of the Church of the Intercession in Tambov. He was highly respected among the parishioners, who did not forget the bishop even after his transfer to Crimea.
In February 1945, Patriarch Alexy I awarded him the right to wear a diamond cross on his hood. Writes the book "Spirit, Soul and Body".
Serving at the Crimean See
On April 5, 1946, Patriarch Alexy signed a decree on the transfer of Archbishop Luke to Simferopol. There the archbishop openly entered into conflicts with the local commissioner for religious affairs; also punished priests for any negligence during worship and fought against parishioners’ avoidance of performing church sacraments. He actively preached (in 1959, Patriarch Alexy proposed awarding Archbishop Luke the degree of Doctor of Theology).
For the books “Essays on Purulent Surgery” (1943) and “Late Resections for Infected Gunshot Wounds of Joints” (1944) in 1946 he was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree (200,000 rubles), 130,000 rubles of which he donated to orphanages.
He continued to provide medical care despite his deteriorating health. The professor received patients at home, helping everyone, but demanding to pray and go to church. The bishop ordered some sick people to be treated only with prayer - and the sick people recovered.
During these years, Voino-Yasenetsky did not stand aside from social and political life. Already in 1946, he actively acted as a fighter for peace and the national liberation movement of the colonial peoples. In 1950, in the article “Defending the World by Serving Good,” he wrote:
“Christians cannot be on the side of the colonial powers that are committing bloody lies in Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaya, supporting the horrors of fascism in Greece, Spain, raping the will of the people in South Korea; those who are hostile to the democratic system that implements... basic demands of justice."
In 1955 he became completely blind, forcing him to leave surgery. Since 1957 he has been dictating memoirs. In post-Soviet times, the autobiographical book “I fell in love with suffering...” was published.
The inscription was carved on the tombstone:
Archbishop Luke Voino-Yasenetsky
18(27).IY.77 - 19(11).YI.61
Doctor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, Laureate.
Archbishop Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) was buried at the First Simferopol Cemetery, to the right of the Church of All Saints in Simferopol. After canonization by the Orthodox Church in the host of new martyrs and confessors of Russia (November 22, 1995), his relics were transferred to the Holy Trinity Cathedral (March 17-20, 1996). The former grave of St. Luke is also revered by believers.
Children
All the professor’s children followed in his footsteps and became doctors: Mikhail and Valentin became doctors of medical sciences; Alexey - doctor biological sciences; Elena is an epidemiologist. Grandsons and great-grandchildren also became scientists (for example, Vladimir Lisichkin - academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences). It is worth noting that the saint never (even after accepting the episcopal rank) tried to introduce them to religion, believing that faith in God is a personal matter for everyone.
Editor's responseFrom April 1 to 2, believers can venerate the relics of St. Luke, which were exhibited in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. AiF.ru talks about the life of the saint.
Archbishop Luke, in peace Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky, born April 27, 1877 in Kerch in large family pharmacist Felix Stanislavovich, who came from an ancient Russian noble family. My father, being a staunch Catholic, did not impose his religious views. Mother, Maria Dmitrievna, raised her children in Orthodox traditions and was actively involved in charity work.
At baptism the baby was named Valentine in honor of the holy martyr Valentin Interamsky, who received the gift of healing from the Lord and then became a priest. Like his heavenly patron, he became both a doctor and a clergyman.
The secular life of St. Luke
Valentin spent his childhood in Kerch. In 1889, the family moved to Kyiv, where he graduated from high school and art school. After that, he submitted documents to the Academy of Arts, but later withdrew them, deciding to choose medicine. I tried to enter the Faculty of Medicine at Kiev University, but did not pass.
He managed to enter the medical university in 1898. “From a failed artist, I became an artist in anatomy and surgery,” he said about his education. After graduation, he became a zemstvo doctor and worked at the Kiev Red Cross Medical Hospital.In 1904, as part of the hospital, he went to the Russo-Japanese War. He worked in an evacuation hospital in Chita, and headed the surgical department.
In the fall of 1908, he left for Moscow and entered an externship at the Moscow surgical clinic of the famous professor Dyakonov, and was engaged in anatomical practice at the Institute of Topographic Anatomy.
At the beginning of 1909, Valentin Feliksovich submitted a petition and was approved as the chief physician of the hospital in the village of Romanovka, Balashov district, Saratov province. Sometimes, without tools at hand, during emergency operations he used a penknife, a quill pen, plumbers' pliers, and instead of thread, a woman's hair. In 1910, he submitted a petition to the doctor of the Pereslavl-Zalessky hospital in the Vladimir province, where he first headed the city, and soon - the factory and district hospitals, as well as a military hospital.
Pastoral activities
In 1921 he decided to become a priest. He did not stop his surgical and teaching work. “I consider it my main duty to preach about Christ everywhere and everywhere,” he remained faithful to this principle until the end of his days.
In 1923, he was secretly tonsured a monk with the name of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke and received the rank of bishop. This was followed by arrests and exiles. Years of prison, Stalin’s camps and a 13-day “conveyor belt” interrogation, when he was not allowed to sleep, but did not break him - he did not sign the documents and did not renounce the priesthood. In the Tambov diocese, Bishop Luka simultaneously served in the church and worked as a surgeon in 150 hospitals for two years. Thanks to his brilliant operations, thousands of soldiers and officers returned to duty.
After World War II, Bishop Luke was appointed Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea. During the entire time of his service at the Crimean department, he received patients at home, consulted in a military hospital, lectured at a medical institute, served and gave sermons in churches.Merits in medicine
In 1946, Voino-Yasenetsky was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree for services to medicine. He gave the first systematic teaching on local anesthesia using ethyl alcohol injected into nerve bundles, and also substantiated the systematic use of antiseptic methods for purulent surgery even before the invention of antibiotics.
As a surgeon, he performed many operations on patients with diseases of the biliary tract, stomach and other abdominal organs. He worked successfully in such areas of surgery as neurosurgery and orthopedics. He expressed a number of important ideas in certain medical areas: the theory of clinical diagnosis, medical psychology and deontology, surgery (including general, abdominal, thoracic, urology, orthopedics and other sections), military field surgery and anesthesiology, healthcare organization and social hygiene.
Veneration and canonization
Archbishop Luke died on June 11, 1961. In November 1995, by decree of the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archbishop Luke was canonized as a locally revered saint. On the night of March 17-18, 1996, the discovery of the holy relics of Archbishop Luke took place. Archbishop Luke was glorified among the host of new martyrs and confessors of Russia in 2000.
The icon of St. Luke (Bishop of Crimea) is especially revered in the Orthodox world. Many Christian believers say warm and sincere prayers before the image of the saint. Saint Luke always hears requests addressed to him: through the prayers of believers, great miracles are performed daily - many people find deliverance from various mental and physical ailments.
The relics of Luke of Crimea show various healings these days, testifying to the great spiritual power of the saint. To worship the shrine, many Christians come to Simferopol from different cities of the world.
The icon of St. Luke is intended to remind people of the life of a great man, fearlessly following in the footsteps of the Savior, who embodied the example of the Christian feat of bearing the cross of life.
On the icons, Saint Luke of Voino-Yasenetsky is depicted in archbishop's vestments with his hand raised in blessing. You can also see an image of the saint sitting at a table above open book, in his scientific works, which reminds Christian believers of fragments of the saint’s biography. There are icons depicting a saint with a cross in right hand and the Gospel on the left. Some icon painters represent St. Luke with medical instruments, recalling his life's work.
The icon of St. Luke is highly revered by the people - its significance for Christian believers is very great! Like St. Nicholas, Bishop Luke became a Russian miracle worker, coming to the aid of all life’s difficulties.
Nowadays, the icon of St. Luke is found in almost every home. This is primarily due to the great faith of the people in the miraculous help of the saint, who is capable of healing any illness by faith. Many Christians turn to the great saint in prayer for deliverance from various ailments.
The early years of Archbishop Luke Voino-Yasenetsky
Saint Luke, Bishop of Crimea (in the world - Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky), was born in Kerch on April 27, 1877. Since childhood, he was interested in painting, attending a drawing school, where he demonstrated considerable success. After completing the gymnasium course, the future saint entered the university at the Faculty of Law, but a year later he stopped studying, leaving educational institution. Then he tried to study at the Munich School of Painting, however, the young man did not find his calling in this area either.
Desiring with all his heart to benefit his neighbors, Valentin decided to enter the Faculty of Medicine at Kiev University. From the first years of his studies, he became interested in anatomy. After graduating Educational establishment with honors and having received the specialty of a surgeon, the future saint immediately began practical medical activities, mainly in eye surgery.
Chita
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky went to Far East as a volunteer. In Chita, he worked at the Red Cross hospital, where he carried out practical medical activities. Heading the surgical department, he successfully operated on wounded soldiers. Soon the young doctor met his future wife- Anna Vasilievna, who worked as a nurse in the hospital. In their marriage they had four children.
From 1905 to 1910, the future saint worked in various district hospitals, where he had to conduct a wide variety of medical activities. At this time, the widespread use of general anesthesia began, but there was not enough necessary equipment and specialist anesthesiologists to perform operations under general anesthesia. Interested in alternative methods of pain relief, the young doctor discovered a new method of anesthesia for the sciatic nerve. He subsequently presented his research in the form of a dissertation, which he successfully defended.
Pereslavl-Zalessky
In 1910, the young family moved to the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, where the future Saint Luke worked in extremely difficult conditions, performing several operations daily. Soon he decided to study purulent surgery and began to actively work on writing his dissertation.
In 1917, terrible upheavals began in the fatherland - political instability, widespread betrayal, the beginning of a bloody revolution. In addition, the young surgeon's wife falls ill with tuberculosis. The family moves to the city of Tashkent. Here Valentin Feliksovich holds the position of head of the surgical department of the local hospital. In 1918, Tashkent State University was opened, where the doctor teaches topographic anatomy and surgery.
Tashkent
During the civil war, the surgeon lived in Tashkent, where he devoted all his energy to healing, performing several operations every day. While working, the future saint always fervently prayed to God for help in completing the work of saving human lives. There was always an icon in the operating room, and a lamp hung in front of it. The doctor had a pious custom: before an operation, he always venerated icons, then lit a lamp, said a prayer, and only then got down to business. The doctor was distinguished by deep faith and religiosity, which led him to the decision to accept the priesthood.
Health A.V. Voino-Yasenetskaya's life began to deteriorate - she died in 1918, leaving four small children in the care of her husband. After the death of his wife, the future saint began to participate even more actively in church life, visiting churches in Tashkent. In 1921, Valentin Feliksovich was ordained to the rank of deacon, and then to the rank of priest. Father Valentin became the rector of the church, in which he always very lively and diligently preached the Word of God. Many colleagues treated his religious beliefs with undisguised irony, believing that the scientific activity of a successful surgeon had finally ended with his ordination.
In 1923, Father Valentin took the new name Luka, and soon assumed the rank of bishop, which caused a violent negative reaction from the Tashkent authorities. After some time, the saint was arrested and imprisoned. A long period of exile began.
Ten years in captivity
For two months after his arrest, the future Saint Luke of Crimea was in Tashkent prison. Then he was transported to Moscow, where a significant meeting of the saint took place with Patriarch Tikhon, imprisoned in the Donskoy Monastery. In the conversation, the Patriarch convinces Bishop Luke not to give up his medical practice.
Soon the saint was summoned to the KGB Cheka building on Lubyanka, where he was subjected to brutal interrogation methods. After the verdict was pronounced, Saint Luke was sent to Butyrka prison, where he was kept in inhumane conditions for two months. Then he was transferred to Taganskaya prison (until December 1923). This was followed by whole line repression: in the midst of a harsh winter, the saint was sent into exile in Siberia to distant Yeniseisk. Here he was settled in the house of a local wealthy resident. The bishop was allocated a separate room in which he continued to conduct medical activities.
After some time, Saint Luke received permission to operate in the Yenisei hospital. In 1924, he performed a complex and unprecedented operation to transplant a kidney from an animal to a human. As a “reward” for his work, local authorities sent a talented surgeon to the small village of Khaya, where Saint Luke continued his medical work, sterilizing instruments in a samovar. The saint did not lose heart - as a reminder of bearing the cross of life, there was always an icon next to him.
Saint Luke of Crimea was again transferred to Yeniseisk the following summer. After a short prison sentence, he was again admitted to medical practice and to church service in a local monastery.
The Soviet authorities tried with all their might to prevent the growing popularity of the bishop-surgeon among the common people. It was decided to exile him to Turukhansk, where there were very complex natural and weather. At the local hospital, the saint received patients and continued his surgical activities, operating and using the hair of patients as surgical material.
During this period, he served in a small monastery on the banks of the Yenisei, in the church where the relics of St. Basil of Mangazeya were located. Crowds of people came to him, finding in him a true healer of soul and body. In March 1924, the saint was again called to Turukhansk to resume his medical activities. At the end of his prison term, the bishop returned to Tashkent, where he again took on the duties of a bishop. The future Saint Luke of Crimea conducted medical work at home, attracting not only the sick, but also many medical students.
In 1930, Saint Luke was arrested again. After his conviction, the saint spent a whole year in Tashkent prison, subjected to all kinds of torture and interrogation. Hard tests Saint Luke of Crimea suffered at that time. The prayer offered to the Lord daily gave him spiritual and physical strength to endure all adversities.
Then it was decided to transport the bishop into exile in northern Russia. All the way to Kotlas, the accompanying convoy soldiers mocked the saint, spat in his face, mocked and mocked him.
At first, Bishop Luke worked in the Makarikha transit camp, where people who had become victims of political repression served their sentences. The conditions of the settlers were inhumane, many decided to commit suicide out of despair, people suffered from massive epidemics of various diseases, and they were not given any help. medical care. Saint Luke was soon transferred to work at the Kotlas hospital, having received permission to operate. Next, the archbishop was sent to Arkhangelsk, where he remained until 1933.
"Essays on purulent surgery"
In 1933, Luka returned to his native Tashkent, where his grown-up children were waiting for him. Until 1937, the saint was engaged in scientific activities in the field of purulent surgery. In 1934, he published a famous work entitled “Essays on Purulent Surgery,” which is still a textbook for surgeons. The saint never managed to publish many of his achievements, an obstacle to which was the next Stalinist repression.
New persecution
In 1937, the bishop was again arrested on charges of murder, underground counter-revolutionary activities and conspiracy to destroy Stalin. Some of his colleagues, arrested with him, gave false testimony against the bishop under pressure. For thirteen days the saint was interrogated and tortured. After Bishop Luke did not sign the confession, he was again subjected to conveyor interrogation.
For the next two years he was imprisoned in Tashkent, periodically subjected to aggressive interrogation. In 1939 he was sentenced to exile in Siberia. In the village of Bolshaya Murta, Krasnoyarsk Territory, the bishop worked in a local hospital, operating on numerous patients under incredibly difficult conditions. The difficult months and years, full of hardships and adversity, were worthily endured by the future saint - Bishop Luke of Crimea. The prayers he offered for his spiritual flock helped many believers in those difficult times.
Soon the saint sent a telegram addressed to the Chairman Supreme Council asking for permission to operate on wounded soldiers. Next, the bishop was transferred to Krasnoyarsk and appointed chief physician of a military hospital, as well as a consultant to all regional military hospitals.
While working at the hospital, he was constantly monitored by KGB officers, and his colleagues treated him with suspicion and distrust, which was due to his religion. He was not allowed into the hospital cafeteria, and as a result he often suffered from hunger. Some nurses, feeling sorry for the saint, secretly brought him food.
Liberation
Every day, the future Archbishop of Crimea Luka independently came to the railway station, selecting the most seriously ill for operations. This continued until 1943, when many church political prisoners fell under Stalin's amnesty. The future Saint Luke was installed as Bishop of Krasnoyarsk, and on February 28 he was able to independently serve the first liturgy.
In 1944, the saint was transferred to Tambov, where he carried out medical and religious activities, restoring destroyed churches, attracting many to the Church. They began to invite him to various scientific conferences, but they always asked him to come in secular clothes, to which Luke never agreed. In 1946 the saint received recognition. He was awarded the Stalin Prize.
Crimean period
Soon the saint's health seriously deteriorated, Bishop Luke began to see poorly. Church authorities appointed him Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea. In Crimea, the bishop continues his busy life. Work is underway to restore the temples, Luke conducts daily free admission sick. In 1956 the saint became completely blind. Despite such serious illness, he worked selflessly for the good of the Church of Christ. On June 11, 1961, Saint Luke, Bishop of Crimea, peacefully departed to the Lord on the Sunday of All Saints.
On March 20, 1996, the holy relics of Luke of Crimea were solemnly transferred to the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Simferopol. Nowadays, they are especially revered by the inhabitants of Crimea, as well as by all Orthodox Christians who ask for help from the great saint.
Icon "St. Luke of Crimea"
During his lifetime, many Christian believers who were personally acquainted with this great man felt his holiness, which was expressed in genuine kindness and sincerity. Luke lived hard life, full of work, hardship and adversity.
Even after the saint’s repose, many people continued to feel his invisible support. Since the archbishop's canonization as an Orthodox saint in 1995, the icon of St. Luke has continually shown various miracles of healing from mental and physical illnesses.
Many Orthodox Christians rush to Simferopol to venerate the great Christian treasure - the relics of St. Luke of Crimea. The icon of St. Luke helps many sick people. The importance of her spiritual power is difficult to overestimate. Some believers received help from the saint instantly, which confirms his great intercession before God for people.
Miracles of Luka Krymsky
Nowadays, through the sincere prayers of believers, the Lord sends healings from many diseases thanks to the intercession of St. Luke. Real cases of incredible deliverances from various diseases that occurred thanks to the prayer to the saint. The relics of Luke of Crimea exude great miracles.
In addition to deliverance from bodily ailments, the saint also helps in the spiritual struggle against various sinful inclinations. Some believing surgeons, deeply revering their great colleague, following the example of the saint, always pray before surgical intervention, helping to successfully operate even on complex patients. According to their deep conviction, Saint Luke of Crimea helps. Prayer addressed to him from the heart helps solve even the most difficult problems.
Saint Luke miraculously helped some students to enter a medical university, thus their cherished dream came true - to devote their lives to treating people. In addition to numerous healings from illnesses, Saint Luke helps lost, unbelieving people find faith, being a spiritual mentor and praying for human souls.
The great holy Bishop Luke of Crimea still performs many miracles to this day! Everyone who turns to him for help receives healing. There are cases when the saint helped pregnant women to safely bear and give birth to healthy children who were at risk according to the results of multilateral studies. Truly a great saint - Luke of Crimea. Prayers offered by believers in front of his relics or icons will always be heard.
Relics
When Luke's grave was opened, the incorruption of his remains was noted. In 2002, Greek clergy presented the Trinity Monastery with a silver shrine for the relics of the archbishop, in which they still rest today. The holy relics of Luke of Crimea, thanks to the prayers of believers, exude many miracles and healings. People come to the temple all the time to venerate them.
After the glorification of Bishop Luke, his remains were transferred to the cathedral of the city of Simferopol. Pilgrims often also call this temple: “Church of St. Luke.” However, this wonderful one is called Holy Trinity. The cathedral is located at the address: Simferopol, st. Odesskaya, 12.
Saint LUKA VOYNO-YASENETSKY, Archbishop of Crimea (†1961)
Archbishop Luke (in the world Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky) is a professor of medicine and spiritual writer, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church; since 1946 - Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea. He was one of the most prominent theorists and practitioners of purulent surgery, for a textbook on which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946 (it was given by the Bishop to orphans). The theoretical and practical discoveries of Voino-Yasenetsky saved the lives of literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers and officers during the Patriotic War.
Archbishop Luke became a victim of political repression and spent a total of 11 years in exile. Rehabilitated in April 2000. In August of the same year, he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in the host of new martyrs and confessors of Russia.
Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky was born on April 27, 1877 in Kerch in the family of pharmacist Felix Stanislavovich and his wife Maria Dmitrievna and belonged to an ancient and noble, but impoverished Polish noble family. Grandfather lived in a chicken hut, walked in bast shoes, however, he had a mill. His father was a zealous Catholic, his mother Orthodox. According to the laws of the Russian Empire, children in such families had to be raised in Orthodox faith. Mother was engaged in charity work and did good deeds. One day she brought a dish of kutia to the temple and after the funeral service she accidentally witnessed the division of her offering, after which she never crossed the threshold of the church again.
According to the saint’s recollections, he inherited his religiosity from his very pious father. The formation of his Orthodox views was greatly influenced by the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. At one time he was carried away by the ideas of Tolstoyism, slept on the floor on a carpet and went out of town to mow rye with the peasants, but after carefully reading L. Tolstoy’s book “What is my faith?”, he was able to figure out that Tolstoyanism is a mockery of Orthodoxy, and Tolstoy himself is a heretic.
In 1889, the family moved to Kyiv, where Valentin graduated from high school and art school. After graduating from high school, he faced a choice of life path between medicine and drawing. He submitted documents to the Academy of Arts, but, after hesitating, decided to choose medicine as more useful to society. In 1898 he became a student at the Faculty of Medicine at Kyiv University and “from a failed artist became an artist in anatomy and surgery.” After brilliantly passing his final exams, he surprised everyone by declaring that he would become a zemstvo “peasant” doctor.
In 1904, as part of the Kyiv Medical Hospital of the Red Cross, he went to the Russian-Japanese War, where he received extensive practice, performing major operations on bones, joints and the skull. Many wounds became covered with pus on the third to fifth day, and at the medical faculty there were no even concepts of purulent surgery, pain management and anesthesiology.
In 1904, he married sister of mercy Anna Vasilievna Lanskaya, who was called the “holy sister” for her kindness, meekness and deep faith in God. She took a vow of celibacy, but Valentin managed to win her favor and she broke this vow. On the night before the wedding, during prayer, it seemed to her that Christ in the icon turned away from her. For breaking her vow, the Lord severely punished her with unbearable, pathological jealousy.
From 1905 to 1917 worked as a zemstvo doctor in hospitals in the Simbirsk, Kursk, Saratov and Vladimir provinces and practiced in Moscow clinics. During this time, he performed many operations on the brain, organs of vision, heart, stomach, intestines, bile ducts, kidneys, spine, joints, etc. and introduced a lot of new things into surgical techniques. In 1908, he came to Moscow and became an external student at the surgical clinic of Professor P. I. Dyakonov.
In 1915, Voino-Yasenetsky’s book “Regional Anesthesia” was published in Petrograd, in which Voino-Yasenetsky summarized the results of research and his rich surgical experience. He proposed a new perfect method of local anesthesia - to interrupt the conduction of the nerves through which pain sensitivity is transmitted. A year later, he defended his monograph “Regional Anesthesia” as a dissertation and received his Doctor of Medicine degree. His opponent, the famous surgeon Martynov, said: "When I read your book, I got the impression of the singing of a bird that cannot help but sing, and I highly appreciated it". For this work, the University of Warsaw awarded him the Chojnacki Prize.
To support his family, he returned to practical surgery. In Pereslavl-Zalessky, he was one of the first in Russia to perform complex operations not only on the bile ducts, kidneys, stomach, intestines, but even on the heart and brain. Having an excellent command of eye surgery techniques, he restored sight to many blind people.
1917 was a turning point not only for the country, but also for Valentin Feliksovich personally. His wife Anna fell ill with tuberculosis and the family moved to Tashkent, where he was offered the position of chief physician of the city hospital. In 1919, his wife died of tuberculosis, leaving four children: Mikhail, Elena, Alexei and Valentin. When Valentine read the Psalter over his wife’s tomb, he was struck by the words of Psalm 112: “And he brings the barren woman into the home as a mother who rejoices over children.” He regarded this as an indication from God to the operating sister Sofia Sergeevna Beletskaya, about whom he only knew that she had recently buried her husband and was infertile, that is, childless, and on whom he could entrust the care of his children and their upbringing. Barely waiting for the morning, he went to Sofya Sergeevna “with God’s command to bring her into his home as a mother rejoicing over her children.” She happily agreed and became the mother of four children of Valentin Feliksovich, who, after the death of his wife, chose the path of serving the Church.
Valentin Voino-Yasenetsky was one of the initiators of the organization of Tashkent University and in 1920 he was elected professor of topographic anatomy and operative surgery at this university. Surgical art, and with it the fame of Prof. Voino-Yasenetsky's numbers were increasing.
He himself increasingly found consolation in faith. He attended the local Orthodox religious society and studied theology. Somehow, “unexpectedly for everyone, before starting the operation, Voino-Yasenetsky crossed himself, crossed the assistant, the operating nurse and the patient. Once, after the sign of the cross, the patient, a Tatar by nationality, said to the surgeon: “I’m a Muslim. Why are you baptizing me?” The answer followed: “Even though there are different religions, there is one God. All are one under God."
Once he spoke at a diocesan congress “one very important issue with a big hot speech." After the congress, Tashkent Bishop Innokenty (Pustynsky) told him: “Doctor, you need to be a priest.” “I had no thoughts about the priesthood,” Vladyka Luke recalled, “but I accepted the words of the Most Reverend Innokenty as God’s call by the bishop’s lips, and without a moment’s hesitation: “Okay, Vladyka! I will be a priest, if it pleases God!”
The issue of ordination was resolved so quickly that they did not even have time to sew a cassock for him.
On February 7, 1921, he was ordained a deacon, on February 15, a priest, and appointed junior priest of the Tashkent Cathedral, while also remaining a university professor. In the priesthood, he never ceases to operate and lecture.
The wave of renovationism of 1923 reached Tashkent. And while the renovationists were waiting for “their” bishop to arrive in Tashkent, a local bishop, a faithful supporter of Patriarch Tikhon, suddenly appeared in the city.
It became Saint Luke Voino-Yasenetsky in 1923. In May 1923, he became a monk in his own bedroom with a name in honor of St. Apostle and Evangelist Luke, who, as you know, was not only an apostle, but also a doctor and an artist. And soon he was secretly consecrated Bishop of Tashkent and Turkestan.
10 days after his consecration, he was arrested as a supporter of Patriarch Tikhon. He was charged with an absurd charge: relations with the Orenburg counter-revolutionary Cossacks and connections with the British.
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Voino-Yasenetsky in exile
In the prison of the Tashkent GPU, he completed his work, which later became famous, “Essays on Purulent Surgery.” On the title page, the bishop wrote: “Bishop Luke. Professor Voino-Yasenetsky. Essays on purulent surgery".
Thus, God’s mysterious prediction about this book, which he received back in Pereslavl-Zalessky several years ago, was fulfilled. He then heard: “When this book is written, the name of the bishop will be on it.”
“Perhaps there is no other book like this,” wrote Candidate of Medical Sciences V.A. Polyakov, “that would have been written with such literary skill, with such knowledge of the surgical field, with such love for the suffering person.”
Despite the creation of a great, fundamental work, the bishop was imprisoned in the Taganskaya prison in Moscow. From Moscow St. Luka was sent to Siberia. It was then that for the first time Bishop Luke’s heart sank.
Exiled to the Yenisei, the 47-year-old bishop is again traveling on a train along the road along which he traveled to Transbaikalia in 1904 as a very young surgeon...
Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk... Then, in the bitter cold of January, the prisoners were taken on a sleigh 400 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk - to Yeniseisk, and then even further - to the remote village of Khaya with eight houses, to Turukhansk... There was no other way to call it a premeditated murder impossible, and he later explained his salvation on a journey of one and a half thousand miles in an open sleigh in severe frost: “On the way along the frozen Yenisei in very coldy I almost really felt that Jesus Christ Himself was with me, supporting and strengthening me”...
In Yeniseisk, the arrival of the bishop-doctor caused a sensation. Admiration for him reached its apogee when he performed congenital cataract extraction on three blind little boy brothers and made them sighted.
The children of Bishop Luke paid in full for their father’s “priestship.” Immediately after the first arrest, they were kicked out of the apartment. Then they will be required to renounce their father, they will be expelled from the institute, “harassed” at work and in the service, the stigma of political unreliability will haunt them for many years... His sons followed in their father’s footsteps, choosing medicine, but none of the four shared his passion faith in Christ.
In 1930, there followed a second arrest and a second, three-year exile, after returning from which he became blind in one eye, followed by a third in 1937, when the most terrible period for the Holy Church began, which claimed the lives of many, many faithful clergy. For the first time, Vladyka learned what torture was, interrogation on a conveyor belt, when investigators took turns for days, kicked each other, and screamed furiously.
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Hallucinations began: yellow chickens were running along the floor; below, in a huge depression, a city could be seen, brightly flooded with the light of lanterns; snakes were crawling along the back. But the sorrows Bishop Luke experienced did not suppress him at all, but, on the contrary, strengthened and strengthened his soul. The Bishop knelt down twice a day, facing the east, and prayed, not noticing anything around him. The cell, filled to capacity with exhausted, embittered people, suddenly became quiet. He was again exiled to Siberia, one hundred and tenth kilometer from Krasnoyarsk.
The outbreak of World War II found 64-year-old Bishop Luka Voino-Yasenetsky in his third exile. He sends a telegram to Kalinin, in which he writes: “being a specialist in purulent surgery, I can provide assistance to soldiers at the front or in the rear, where I am entrusted... At the end of the war, I am ready to return to exile. Bishop Luke."
He is appointed a consultant to all hospitals in the Krasnoyarsk Territory - for thousands of kilometers there was no more necessary and more qualified specialist. The ascetic work of Archbishop Luke was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", Stalin Prize of the First Degree for scientific development new surgical methods for the treatment of purulent diseases and wounds.
The fame of Archbishop Luke became worldwide. His photographs in bishop's vestments were broadcast abroad via TASS channels. The Lord was pleased with all this only from one point of view. My scientific activity, he considered the publication of books and articles as a means of raising the authority of the Church.
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In May 1946, Vladyka was transferred to the post of Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea. Students went to meet him at the station with flowers.
Before that, he served for some time in Tambov. The following story happened to him there. One widow woman stood near the church when the bishop went to the service. “Why are you, sister, standing so sad?” - asked the bishop. And she told him: “I have five small children, and the house has completely fallen apart.” After the service, he took the widow to his home and gave her money to build a house.
Around the same time, he was finally banned from speaking at medical congresses in bishop's vestments. And his performances stopped. He understood more and more clearly that it was becoming increasingly difficult to combine bishop and medical service. His medical practice began to decline.
In Crimea, the ruler faced a severe struggle with the authorities, who in the 50s closed churches one after another. At the same time, his blindness developed. Anyone who did not know about this could not even think that the archpastor performing the Divine Liturgy is blind in both eyes. He carefully blessed the Holy Gifts during their transubstantiation, without touching them with either his hand or vestments. The bishop read all the secret prayers from memory.
He lived, as always, in poverty. Every time her niece Vera offered to sew a new cassock, she heard in response: “Patch, patch, Vera, there are many poor people.”
At the same time, the diocesan secretary kept long lists of those in need. At the end of each month, thirty to forty postal transfers. Lunch in the bishop's kitchen was prepared for fifteen to twenty people. Many hungry children, lonely old women, and poor people deprived of their livelihood came.
The Crimeans loved their ruler very much. One day at the beginning of 1951, Archbishop Luke returned by plane from Moscow to Simferopol. As a result of some misunderstanding, no one met him at the airfield. The half-blind ruler stood confused in front of the airport building, not knowing how to get home. The townspeople recognized him and helped him board the bus. But when Archbishop Luke was about to get off at his stop, at the request of the passengers, the driver turned off the route and, having driven three extra blocks, stopped the bus right at the porch of the house on Gospitalnaya. The Bishop got off the bus to the applause of those who hardly often went to church.
The blind archpastor also continued to rule the Simferopol diocese for three years and sometimes receive patients, astonishing local doctors with unmistakable diagnoses. He left practical medical practice back in 1946, but continued to help patients with advice. He ruled the diocese until the very end with the help of trusted persons. IN last years throughout his life he only listened to what was read to him and dictated his works and letters.
The Lord passed away June 11, 1961 on the Day of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land, and was buried in the church cemetery at the All Saints Church in Simferopol. Despite the authorities' ban, the whole city saw him off. The streets were jammed and absolutely all traffic stopped. The path to the cemetery was strewn with roses.
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The grave of Archbishop Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky) in Simferopol
In 1996, his honest relics were found incorrupt, which now rest in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Simferopol. In 2000, at the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church he was canonized as a saint and confessor.
Reliquary with the relics of St. Luke Voino-Yasenetsky in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Simferopol
Troparion, tone 1
To the proclaimer of the path of salvation, the confessor and archpastor of the Crimean land, the true keeper of fatherly traditions, the unshakable pillar of Orthodoxy, the teacher of Orthodoxy, the godly physician, Saint Luke, Christ the Savior, unceasingly pray to the unshakable Orthodox faith to grant both salvation and great mercy.
Kontakion, tone 1
Like an all-bright star, shining with virtues, you were the saint, but you created a soul equal to the angel, for this sake of holiness you are honored with the rank of rank, while in exile from the godless you suffered a lot and remained unshakable in faith, with your medical wisdom you healed many. In the same way, now the Lord glorified your venerable body, wondrously found from the depths of the earth, and let all the faithful cry out to you: Rejoice, Father Saint Luke, praise and affirmation of the Crimean land.
Prayer to Saint Luke, Confessor, Archbishop of Crimea
O all-blessed confessor, holy saint, our Father Luke, great servant of Christ. With tenderness we bow the knee of our hearts, and falling before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, like the children of our father, we pray to you with all diligence: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the Merciful and Humane-loving God. To whom you stand now in the joy of the saints and with the faces of an angel. We believe that you love us with the same love with which you loved all your neighbors while you were on earth. Ask Christ our God, may He strengthen His children in the spirit of right faith and piety: may He give holy zeal and care for the salvation of the people entrusted to them to the shepherds: to observe the right of believers, to strengthen the weak and infirm in the faith, to instruct the ignorant, and to reprove those who oppose. Give us all a gift that is useful to everyone, and everything even to temporal life and to eternal salvation useful. Strengthening our cities, fruitful lands, deliverance from famine and destruction. Comfort for the grieving, healing for the ailing, return to the path of truth for those who have lost their way, blessing for the parents, education and teaching for the children in the fear of the Lord, help and intercession for the orphaned and needy. Grant us all your archpastoral blessing, so that if we have such prayerful intercession, we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and avoid all enmity and disorder, heresies and schisms. Guide us on the path that leads to the villages of the righteous, and pray to Almighty God for us, so that eternal life Let us be worthy with you to continually glorify the Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
The prayer was compiled by Archpriest Georgy SEVERIN,
rector of the Church of the Three Saints in Simferopol
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