Mother, if you do come and visit this thread, could you share any information about this FAKE 'blessed surgeon of Crimea' ?
I am SO RELIEVED that you said that about him !
Even the sound of his name drives me crazy ! I felt there is something BAD about him. But I did NOT know this about the giving away of people to be sent to the gulag, karlag, etc.! That is really repulsive.
I tried to look up his name in wikipedia to pinpoint what makes me so repulsed by Abp Luke of Simferopol. Naturally, it's all sanitized to make him sound neat and tidy spiritually. I didn't believe the healings - instinctively. But what proof could I advance to prove this material false ? None because I'd hate to even pick up that biography of his published by St Vladimirs Press, I think. That's how awful an impression he has made on me since I first heard of him.
Now, tragically, Rocor-MP has a parish named for him, I happened to see the other day when searching for something quite different. Somewhere in the southern U.S.
The St Herman of Alaska 2016 Calendar has his picture on the cover. I bought it only after a lot of hesitation only because some of the other information of Crimean Saints might be good [historical ones, not him -]. I immediately plastered his picture over with something else salutary.
This is terrific information, Mother Evfrosinia. I have always been immensely grateful that you wised us up about
that Matrona of Moscow, the supposed 'friend of Stalin'. Thank God ! I might have been slightly taken in otherwise.