Metropolitan Philip
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Metropolitan Philip
19.99 €
Metropolitan Philip is the brightest figure of Russian history of the XVI century, a representative of the ancient Kolychev family, who exchanged the armor of a serving man for a monastic cassock. He, who never thirsted for power, aspired to hermitage, had to head the Solovetsky monastery, and then stand at the head of the Russian Church. Raised from the wilderness of the islands lost in the White Sea to the apex of ecclesiastical power, he tried to soften the heart of the stern tsar, interceded for the victims of oprichnina, and eventually came into conflict with Ivan the Terrible, was brought to church court and exiled to a provincial monastery. He suffered humiliation, bodily suffering, and died at the hands of a royal close associate, but did not change his ideas of faith and love.
The book of the historian Dmitry Volodykhin gives the reader the opportunity to lift the veil over the mystery of the death of the bishop, to plunge into the whirlpool of historical events, where among the sinister oprichic figures the image of Philip shines with purity: a humble monk, abbot, the head of the Russian Church, a martyr who shone in the Russian land.
The book of the historian Dmitry Volodykhin gives the reader the opportunity to lift the veil over the mystery of the death of the bishop, to plunge into the whirlpool of historical events, where among the sinister oprichic figures the image of Philip shines with purity: a humble monk, abbot, the head of the Russian Church, a martyr who shone in the Russian land.
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