of prayer for the forgiveness of wandering and enduring with humility and malice the ridicule surrounding people . blessed received from god the gift of clairvoyance and wonderworking. at the local council of the russian orthodox church in june 1988, blessed xenia of st. petersburg was canonized blessed xenia was born at the beginning of the 18th century and carried her spiritual feat in st. petersburg. xenia was the chorister of the court choir andrei fedorovich petrov nothing is known about blessed’s childhood and youth, but the people’s memory has preserved only what is connected with the beginning of the feat and growth in all her sudden death husband is shocked by this terrible event, a 26-year-old widow. she decided to start the most difficult christian feat to seem crazy so that she prays to the creator for mercy on the soul of her suddenly deceased spouse. xenia refused. she renounced all the blessings of the world from her title and wealth, and moreover, from herself, she left her name and, taking the name of her husband, went under his name all her way of the cross for the rest of her life, trying to cultivate. in her heart, a gift of sincere love to her neighbors, when on the day of her husband’s funeral,