Saint Alexander of Svirsky

Saint Alexander Svirsky (1448–1533) was a famous Russian Eastern Orthodox monk, hermit, and hegumen (abbot) who founded the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery

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In the story, there are two people known who, while still alive, have been blessed with the sight of the Holy Trinity. One was the forefather Abraham; the second, a Russian saint of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Alexander of Svirsky.

He went to his final repose on 12 September 1533, aged 83. Such an extraordinary number of miracles flowed from his relics that only fourteen years later he was numbered among the saints — quite rare in the Orthodox Church.

In 1918, the Chekists — agents from the Soviet state security — came and removed the incorrupt relics from the monastery. But for all the Bolshevik jews' efforts to wipe out what they called the “cult of dead bodies”, some among them sensed they were in the presence of something miraculous. For a long time, the “body of an unknown man” was kept safe, away from view, in the Military Medical Academy in St Petersburg. Not until 1998 were the holy relics at last returned to the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery.