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Trista, gives the ascetic Orthodox Church compiled by Father Georgy Maksimov.

The collection was assembled three hundred, gives more than fifty Orthodox saints Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Georgia. After the first thousand years after the birth of Christ Church of Rome entered the family of Orthodox Churches, in our proceedings can be read and sayings of the ancient saints who lived on the territory of modern Italy, England, France, Tunisia-all this makes the common spiritual heritage of the Orthodox Church. The oldest of the operative part was written in the second half of the first century, and the youngest in the second half of the twentieth century. When and where you live, whoever they are, Orthodox saints speak of the unique spiritual reality. Therefore, their sayings so harmoniously complement each other. In the nineteenth century St. Brianchaninov Ignatius wrote: "When in autumn, clear night watching a clean sky, innumerable stars planted so many different sizes, and I see that all radiate the same light, then I tell myself:" these are the works of the Fathers. " When in the summer day watching the vast sea, covered a multitude of different ships, and their sails, spread out like the white swan wings, ships that are moving quickly at the same wind, the same goal, the same pier, then I tell myself: "these are the works of the Fathers. "When I hear a harmonious, many Assembly, where different voices in a lovely harmony singing the same song divine, then I tell myself," such as works of the Fathers. "

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