of ancient saints, we admire their high spiritual exploits. st. anthony the great, st. nicholas the wonderworker, st. sergei of radonichskyof god are close to us in the spirit of christian life, many of us know their lives well, we often we turn to them in prayers, perform church services in their memory, but we are not able to imagine the conditions of earthly life in which they accomplished their spiritual feats, what difficulties and temptations they had to face, we can only partly... about this may create in some people the false opinion that just as the lands in which the holy saints of god lived are far from us, so holiness is something distant and unattainable. such people may read with amazement about the lives of saints, but imagine that holiness can shine not only in the syrian desert or the holy land and... jerusalem, but also here, on our belarusian land, it can be very difficult for them to do this. the saints of god in our native land assure us that holiness can shine wherever there are hearts that love god. believers, the grace of god has found a place in the worthy hearts of our belarusian ascetics. but wh