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Account of the Life and Labours of Father Seraphim (Hieromonk Sergius, 1841)

Сказание о жизни и подвигах блаженной памяти отца Серафима, Саровской пустыни иеромонаха и затворника

Retrato de Serafín de Sarov pintado en vida
bySeraphim of Sarov

The first printed life and the main historical source on Seraphim: childhood in Kursk, entry to Sarov, the wilderness, the robbers' attack, the seclusion and death, without the miracles added by later lives. It went through several editions, later combined with the life of the hermit Mark and the Instructions.

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Authorship note

By Hieromonk Sergius (Vasiliev), written in 1837 from testimonies collected since 1818 and pruned by Metropolitan Philaret before its publication in Moscow (1841), signed 'I. S.'.

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Русский

  • Сказание о жизни и подвигах блаженной памяти отца Серафима

    Moscú, 1841

    Translation: Hieromonje Sergio (Vasíliev)

    Primera edición.

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Sources

  • «Серафим Саровский», Wikipedia en ruso (biografía, fuentes hagiográficas, expediente de Matrona Plescheeva en el fondo del metropolita Filaret, carta del abad Isaías II de 1848, canonización y reliquias). Consultada el 25-10-2026.

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