Reminiscences: Recollections About Elder Nektary of Optina

Matushka Eugenia Rimarenko

More concerning one of the recently-glorified great elders of Optina, who struggled to continue the tradition of holy Orthodoxy, so glaringly absent in our times. The writer knew St. Anatoly as a young woman. The daughter of wealthy land-owners, as a college student she became involved with occultism and separated from the Church; through the guidance and prayers of Elder Nektary and others, she returned to the Faith. Saddle-stitched