A life devoted to prayer, preaching and bookstranslated

This year marks the 375th anniversary of the birth of St. Demetrius of Rostov, author of the famous collection “Lives of the Saints.” Alexey Krylov, senior lecturer at the Department of General and Russian Church History and Canon Law of the Theological Faculty of the Orthodox St. Tikhon's Humanitarian University, talks about the era in which the learned metropolitan lived and served, what environment shaped him, and how he chose the path of a church historian and hagiographer. The article was published in the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate” (No. 10, 2026, PDF version).

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