Jean-Serge wrote: ↑Fri 26 February 2016 6:40 pm
You can fin some sources in this discussion: http://www.euphrosynoscafe.com/forum/vi ... 12&t=10575&
I am reproducing them below:
Alexander wrote:Luke Voinio-Yasenetski is not a Saint but a traitor of New Martyrs. He was a traitor not only by his cooperation with tyrant Joseph Stalin who was a terrible persecuter. Luke Voinio-Yasenetski directly complained to Soviet powers against catacomb priests.
One episode even was mentions in his official life of MP (probably as a "good example"). They published a document by "Upolmomochennyj" (an official who was supervising MP from soviet government, a sort of a moderator). In this document he reports that Luke Voinio-Yasenetski asked him to stop the activity of a catacomb priest hieromonk Hippolit Veryutin who lived in that region. This is page 225 in the official book.
I wonder if this episode was translated into English or Greek. This is the year of 1948, among the documents.
MP priests continue to complain to authorities even up till now. They act as their saints acted.
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The book is no longer available but it would be nice i fsomeone could provide the extract (a priori page 225) even in Russian.
It may count as necromancy to continue the discussion after this long, but for what it is worth I have tried to find this incident in the new English language version "The Blessed Surgeon: The Life of Saint Luke Archbishop of Simferopol." ISBN 978-0-9714139-2-4. Divine Ascent Press. 2nd ed, 2008. Author Archdeacon Vasiliy Marushhak, translated by A.A. Vassilyeva. 191 pages. It states that it was originally published in Russian under the titlle "Blessed Surgeon: the Life of Archbishop Luke (Voino-Yassenetsky)," so this is supposed to be the correct book.
I did not see the exact incident described in detail. (Forgive me if perhaps I made a mistake.) All I found was this:
"In the postwar period, when the Church had a great deficiency of clergy, many charlatans appeared, impersonating priests. Sometimes they were clergymen who had been deposed from the priesthood by a legal bishop [Note: With this I assume the text includes priests illegally "deposed" by the MP because they didn't go along with the agenda] and sometimes they were just frauds [Another note: With this I assume the text includes priests ordained outside of the MP by catacomb bishops]. Vladyka Luke ordered that he be informed of such suspicious people." (Page 108.)
The descriptions in the book are not all in chronological order and the movements of Bp. Luke are often not properly assigned a year. However if he indeed arrived in Crimea in 1946-1947 then this has to be the only reference in that chapter.