Schiarkhimandrite Lawrence: the holy, perspicacious elder

66 years ago, on January 19, 1950, I was asleepthe well-known elder-the Monk Lavrenty of Chernigov. From the words about how it is impossible to divide the Holy Trinity - the One Lord God, it is impossible to divide Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, representing Holy Russia in a single whole, began his speech before all the assembled Orthodox people. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Kiev, being in Kiev on a solemn celebrating the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.

Saint Lawrence

About future

Father Laurence - holy priest, menacingwhose prophecy and still do not leave millions of believers in peace. Not so long ago they were not very clear, but, in connection with the bloody events in Ukraine, much becomes clear. There was a sharp and mass awareness of what a great war is being waged against Christ, Orthodox priesthood and the entire Slavic people.

The saint wrote that soon the time would come whenrepair the inactive temples both outside and inside, the domes on them and on the bell towers will be gilded, everything will flash in the greatest splendor, but when all this restoration is over, then the Antichrist will reign, and these temples will not be able to walk.

Lawrence the Saint: biography

In the world he was called Luka Evseevich Proskura.He was born the sixth child in 1868 in the village of Karilskoye, (near Korop of Chernihiv province) in a pious rural family. My father died early, my mother was often sick. At the age of 13 he graduated from the Zemstvo school. As a child, he fell during the game and hurt himself so that he began to limp. For physical damage, as if in retribution, the Lord awarded him with musical gifts.

Once, while in Korop, Luke met withregent of the imperial choir, who came to see his native places. He opened musical talents in the boy and began to teach him the regency of art and playing the violin. And to help the family with something significant, Luka learned how to sew and by the time he was 17 he had become a professional tailor.

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Luke Regent

However, Luke soon became regent and wanted to leavea novice in a monastery, but his elder brother asked not to leave them. Together with his friend Simeon, he visited Kiev with his father, Jonah, on Athos and in Palestine. Simeon was accepted into the brotherhood of Athos monastery, and Luka was sent back to Russia, because there he was more necessary.

In 1912, when Luka was 45 years old, he wastonsured monks with the name of Lavrenty. Then two years passed, and he became a hierodeacon, two more later - a hieromonk. In 1928 he was secretly ordained to the rank of archimandrite.

After the revolution, he, like the Kiev-CavesReverend Saint Anthony and Theodosius, took upon himself the feat of cave life, having dug in Chernigov in the Boldin Mount near the Trinity Monastery caves, which began to be called the Laurentian. Nearby there were the Alipi caves, over which the hegumen Alypius labored. Father Laurence opened abortion to Alipius martyrdom, later he was really murdered by atheists in the village of Ulyanovka in the Sumy region.

When the renewal split occurred, Father Laurentius supported Patriarch Tikhon. His position on the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad was also irreconcilable.

Time of heavy testing

The Monk Lavrenty is a holy prophet of the Soviettime, which gave birth to the Chernigov earth, gave us many holy ascetics. In the 1930s, after the Trinity Church was closed in Chernigov, he secretly lived in an apartment (from 1930 to 1942) and only at night could receive his spiritual children.

When Chernigov was captured by the Germans, at 73, he organized monastic communities: male and female. Then, at Easter, the Trinity Church was opened, which became the main center of Orthodoxy in the Chernigov region.

Lavrenty the saint (whose photos are stillhave survived) once blessed for the service of Metropolitan of Kiev Blessed Vladimir (Sabodan), when he came to him as a child together with his mother.

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Prophecies about Ukraine

Concerning the prophecies, it should be noted that the fatherLavrenty is a holy seer who spoke not only of the last times of mankind, but also of the present. For example, about the split in Ukraine, he warned that all false teachings would come out there together with all evil spirits and secret atheists: Uniates, Catholics, Ukrainians, self-saints and others. In Ukraine, the canonical Orthodox Church will experience strong attacks, the enemies will oppose its unity and conciliarity. All these servants of the Antichrist will encourage and support godless power in every possible way, so the Orthodox will be beaten and take away from them parishes. The self-styled Kyiv Metropolitan will greatly shake the Church, in this he will be assisted by like-minded people: bishops and priests. But then he himself will go to eternal perdition, the fate of the betrayer of Judah awaits him.

Satanic anger

However, all these intrigues of the evil and false doctrinedisappear, and there will be a single Orthodox Church throughout Russia. In Kiev there will never be a Patriarch, because they have always lived in Moscow. Already at that time the Monk Father Lavrenty, a holy old man from the land of Chernigov, warned everyone to be concerned with the self-soviet Ukrainian church and the union.

During this conversation Father Kronid was present,who did not believe and protested to the priest, they said that they had disappeared from the very beginning of 1946 and were self-soviet and Uniates, but he answered that the demon would enter them, and they would be angry with the special Orthodox satire against the Orthodox Church. But a shameful end awaits them, and they will bear the punishment of heaven from the Lord.

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Covenant

He bequeathed to all Orthodox believers that they rememberexpensive and native words "Rus" and "Russian". And they never forgot that it was the baptism of Rus, and not of Ukraine. Kiev will always be the mother of Russian cities and the second Jerusalem. Kievan Rus not to break with the great Russia, and Kiev separately without Russia is unthinkable.