Why believers love St. Luke of Crimea so much

Saint Luke of Crimea is one of the most popular holy elders today. It is possible that this man healed people not only with the word of God. Luca also graduated from medical school and cured many people with his own hands. Very soon. June 11 - Day of Remembrance of Luke Krymsky. In honor of the holiday, we want to tell you more about this wonderful man.

St. Luke of Crimea To better understand how the life of the saint passed, let us make a small excursion into history. Before monastic tonsure, the young man was called Valentine Voyno-Yasenetsky. He loved to paint and was undoubtedly very talented. However, at the last moment, Valentine refused to enter the Academy of Arts. The young man decided that it was more important for him not to show himself as an artist, but to help those who need help and protection.



Instagram / @pravoslavie.online It is for this reason that the future saint entered the medical faculty, which greatly surprised his parents. Curiously enough, the student was rather a humanist, and such sciences as biology and chemistry were given to the young man with great difficulty. Fortunately, perseverance helped. Valentine patiently reached high scores.



With such success Valentin Voyno-Yasenetsky could safely start a career as a scientist immediately after studying. However, he immediately He gave up the scientific path. The man said he wanted to be an ordinary doctor, treating ordinary peasants.



Instagram / @alyashishkina 1921 becomes a turning point in the life of a young doctor. He becomes a monk and takes a new name. The world meets the benefactor and healer Luke of Crimea. Fearlessness fills the soul of the priest and the people boldly follow his preaching. But the authorities do not like such speeches. Luke is exiled to the most remote places of the empire.



Even far from home, Luca performs operations, saving not only souls but also bodies every day. Residents of the most remote villages and cities are grateful to the intelligent priest-doctor. Theirs. In recent years, Luka Krymsky spent in SimferopolThat's why he got the title. The old man’s vision left much to be desired at that time. Unfortunately, the fate of the surgeon of that time in this regard was not easy.



Instagram / @v_v_novikova Prayer to Luke of Crimea O blessed Confessor, St. Luke our Father, the great saint of Christ. With tenderness bend our hearts to the knees, and falling to the race of your honest and multi-purpose relics, like the children of your father, we pray fervently: hear us sinners and bring our prayer to the merciful and human-loving God, to whom you are now in the joy of the saints and from the face of an angel before you. We believe that you love the same love, and all your neighbors loved you when you were on earth. Ask Christ our God to confirm his children in the spirit of right faith and piety: let him give holy zeal and care to the pastors for the salvation of the people entrusted to them.



Instagram / @v_v_novikova All of us give a gift to someone who is well-needed, and everything more useful to life of time and to eternal salvation. Our cities are established, the fruit-bearing land, deliverance from glaciation and perdition. To those who grieve for consolation, to those who fail to heal, to those who are lost in the way of truth, to the parent of blessing, to children in the fear of the Lord education and teaching, to the poor and the poor help and intercession. Give us all your archpastoral blessing, but you have such a prayerful intercession, we will get rid of the tricks of the evil one and avoid all enmity and disorder, heresies and schisms. Amen.

Despite his lack of vision, Luca continued to make diagnoses that were always accurate. He also preached and cared for the souls of people. Prayer to St. Luke of Crimea is read by those who seek healing of the soul or body. Read this prayer with a pure heart and you will get help.