This Hermit from 1833 keeps appearing to people in 2026

The power of hell is arming itself,

attacking the naive,

taking advantage of the incitement of

passions through music and visuals

on a multi- trillion dollar scale.

In the past century, St. Saraphim of

Sarab was an assistant to the suffering

and a teacher of orthodoxy in many

countries throughout the universe. His

teachings and life gives hope to victory

on the possibility of reaching the

kingdom of heaven.

The following are accounts of

individuals who are recorded contact

with the saint long after his repose

from this earthly life.

In the 1930s, a Russian gardener worked

in a rich house.

The hostess of the house was a deeply

religious Catholic

and she had in the house a statue of St.

Francis of Aissi whom she venerated and

constantly prayed.

On one occasion, she has a dream.

Her statue

comes to life and St. Francis

walks up and says that while he's

grateful to her prayers, there's an

unknown old man standing right behind

him.

From now on, she should pray to him and

resort to him for help since he's taller

than Francis.

Confused, she wakes up and wonders who

this unknown saint might be standing so

humbly behind Francis.

And for a long time, she tries to

unravel this dream when one day she

accidentally enters the room of the

Russian gardener and sees in the corner

between the icons a small image.

She immediately recognizes him as the

one standing behind Francis.

She becomes interested in orthodoxy and

later she meets a bishop who explains to

her the basics.

Thus, through a sincere love for

holiness, a soul is guided away from the

errors of Catholicism and into the

fullness of the faith.

We don't pray to saints,

>> okay?

>> We only we only uh direct our prayers

towards Christ. I was in the hospital

recently and you came and visited me and

I asked your prayers.

>> You're probably a saint. No one knows

it. Uh

>> no, they don't. And they would never

believe it.

>> Okay. But I didn't but I didn't pray to

you. No.

>> And so this is the same way. uh for

instance I named after uh St. Saraphim.

St. Saraphim was truly transfigured

actually uh actually his whole face his

whole body turned into a great light

like Christ on the mount trans mount of

transfiguration.

And so um uh I don't pray to St. Sarapim

but because of his life and his by the

way talking to scripture he had the

entire New Testament memorized. He read

a gospel every day and epistle the

entire gospel. That's just that's just

part of it. Uh, so I don't pray two, we

don't pray two saints. as I would ask

you perhaps a person that just called is

she's Christian, would you pray for me

to the north of the center of Alberta

where the endless prairies begin, there

is a lake called Whitefish.

And in the 1930s, a monk named Yseph

settles there,

summoned to be the shepherd of Russian

and Vakovnian immigrants.

Now, in this area, there's a lot of

shamanic activity.

And so, Monk Ysef turns to Saint

Saraphim for help and creates a

hermitage in his honor in order to

consecrate the entire territory with the

light of Orthodoxy.

Now how exactly St. and Saraphim appears

to him is hidden from us. But here are

the words of the father himself

describing a miracle with a parish

family.

The 12-year-old youth Natalia was ill

for 2 years.

And 6 hours before her death, the monk

Saraphim of Sarav and the mother of God

appeared to her in reality and said, "We

will come for you at 4:00."

A priest was called for her. She

received Holy Communion, got out of bed

for the first time in 2 years, and

completely recovered.

She went and ate.

At about 4:00, she lay down again and

said to her parents,

"Bless me.

The mother of God and the Saint Saraphim

have come for me.

Farewell."

She crossed herself, folded her hands,

and died.

Elder Ysef highlights the bravery

exhibited by her,

fortelling how she never complained, but

met her illness with patience and trust

in Christ's path.

In this time period, Russians are coming

to America to work, live, work, and then

return to Russia.

Such is the case with the pious Nikolai

Pentaliv.

Though in the world, his soul is of a

monastic disposition, and he often finds

himself corresponding with and giving

alms to the monks on Mount Aos. In

return, they send him spiritual books

like the filicleia and the prologue,

which at the time were quite difficult

to obtain. Now, shortly before the end

of his time in America, the iron curtain

falls in Russia

>> and his homeland becomes, as it were,

buried, cut off from the rest of the

world.

And so now separated from his family in

a country entirely alien to his

spiritual disposition, he loses heart.

Sin takes possession of his soul.

So he rushes to the temple, finds a

priest and confesses.

Now only the Lord knows why. But on this

particular confession, the father gives

him an unusually severe penance. a

thousand boughs to the ground every day.

And so the pious Nikolai rushes back

home, his heart at war, he performs the

bows with a repentant heart.

After some time, he returns to the

temple to talk further with the priest

and receive permission of the penance.

In the church, permission of a penance

means confirmation that the penance has

been completed. Alternatively, it can

mean word that it no longer needs to be

done if true repentance is discerned.

This is something only the one who

originally assigned the penance can do.

But when he arrives at the temple, much

to his surprise, he finds his priest

laying in a coffin dead.

He looks at the face of his deceased

judge and realizes the permission of

pendants which he hoped to obtain is now

held in the hands of his priest in the

afterlife.

And so accepting such strange divine

fate, he returns home and does his

boughs.

He goes to work and does his boughs.

He changes his job to a night shift,

reduces his food intake, and does his

bows.

He barely sees the sun now, but still he

does his bows.

In between boughs and sleep, he reads

those spiritual books with more

intensity. Starts doing reader services

at home to supplement the services at

church.

The few people who he has continual

contact with are the Russian monks at

Mount Aos.

>> These monks at this time period are also

greatly suffering due to being cut off

from their homeland.

Like monastic brothers separated by a

sea,

>> he continues to give alms to them and in

return they send him a pack of icons to

sell.

>> Upon opening, he finds an icon of an old

hunched overlooking elder. His bright

face illumined against a sea of

darkness.