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Chronicle of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery (sayings and accounts)

Seraphim of Sarov

A history of the Diveyevo communities from their founder, Mother Alexandra, to the end of the nineteenth century, which is also the main collection of Seraphim's oral teaching to the sisters: advice on prayer, work, obedience and joy, prophecies about the convent, the ditch he had dug around the Mill community, his farewell words and the lives of his disciples. The second edition (1903) includes a new life of Seraphim and was the documentary basis for the canonisation.