in the modern kamenets region during the great patriotic war, priest evgeniy mesiyu served.n belovezhskaya pushcha, partisan places. only women and children came to services at the church of the exaltation of the cross; men were at the front or in partisan detachments. people under nazi occupation needed spiritual support. the role of the priest in those years, firstly, was to console people, help people, and overcome this terrible time, in fact, even today, of course, we would, of course, turn to psychologists for the most part, who could give answers to some questions. then questions and somehow at least establishing inner peace in the person himself, then this role, of course, was actively occupied by sacred ministers, they consoled people. in the occupied territory , the nazis periodically staged.