A book about the Ural saint - St. Basilisk of Siberia - won a prestigious competitiontranslated

The book “Invisible Wings” about the Ural saint - St. Basilisk of Siberia took a prize in the XXI open competition of Orthodox publications “Enlightenment through the book.”

The Alexander Nevsky Novo-Tikhvin Monastery, which published the book, was awarded a third degree diploma in the “Best Illustrated Book” category.

Let us remind you that the book was published in 2026, this is the first complete life of the Venerable Basilisk of Siberia.

The sisters of the monastery tried to collect all available information about the saint, contained in various sources: archival documents, pre-revolutionary publications, memoirs of contemporaries.

The book also contains picturesque illustrations of numerous places that the saint sanctified with his feat - and he labored in the Mordovian, Bryansk, Roslavl forests, and on the island of Konevets, then, in search of greater solitude, he went all over Russia and finally spent more than twenty years in Siberia.

Now his holy relics rest in Yekaterinburg, in the Church of the All-Merciful Savior, and everyone can venerate them and ask for the help of the reverend elder for themselves and their loved ones.

Elder Basilisk of Siberia was glorified among the saints of the Ekaterinburg diocese in January 2004.

In January 2026 in the Ural...