I came to love Suffering. Autobiography
Of Simferopol, Saint Luke / Portaïtissa, Trazegnies Convent The author of this book, Saint Luke the Confessor (his worldly name was Valentin Yasenetsky-Voyno), is a Russian saint of the twentieth century. He was born on April 27, 1877 in Kerch, Crimea and fell asleep in the Lord on June 11, 1961 in Simferopol, Crimea. Canonized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in November 1995.
He was a descendent of a Belarusian-Polish impoverished princely family, and he was archbishop of the...