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The most venerable S.P. completed her course in this world and passed on to the eternal fatherland; May God grant her eternal bliss, which cannot be doubted; she had a kind heart, and spent most of her life painfully and sorrowfully; and this is the path leading to the kingdom of heaven. Glory to God, I was also worthy of Christian guidance; I owe a lot to her zealous disposition and consider it my duty to remember her in my unworthy prayers; we must regret the separation from our neighbors, but, considering this vain and sorrowful life, we must wisely moderate the sorrow: it was not a small sorrow - loneliness; who had children, and in old age and illness live in separation from them, in whom, perhaps, she thought there was hope of consolation; with the end of her life, her sorrows also ceased, but for the children, of course, there is no small sorrow that they were not worthy to be at her death and receive the blessing; but she probably blessed them in absentia. Upon receipt of your letter, her name was written down for commemoration in the monastery and on the psalter, and on the same day, the 30th and the 9th day, October 2nd, memorial services were served. May the Lord rest her soul in the kingdom of heaven. Mnogohreshny I.M. October 9, 1843. You might be interested in: