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Hegumen Ignatius Raksha - Condensed Biography- Revised

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A former member of the Catacomb Church and a close friend of St. John Maximovich, Fr. Ignatius was a vessel of God who had the gifts of tears and prophecy and was revered as a saint even by Muslims. He feared God alone, and therefore even the enemies of the faith, sensing his spiritual power, sought to kiss the hem of his garment as he walked the streets of Jerusalem. His example shows how ROCOR could have acted, relying on the power of faith alone. And even after Fr. Ignaty’s repose in 1986, there continued to be ROCOR clergy in Jerusalem who followed his example. Thus, a close friend of Fr. Ignaty’s, Archimandrite Nektary (Chernobyl), who had been a member of the Catacomb Church in Russia and died in 2000, said that “the Hegoumen of Hebron never communed with clergy of jurisdictions entering into the ecumenical World Council of Churches. He openly reproached representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate who had betrayed Holy Orthodoxy” (Vospominania, Jordanville, 2002, p. 9). He was indisputably an anti-sergianist catacombite father who lamented the parlous state of the Orthodox Church and openly refused to commune with them which goes to prove that the Holy Spirit visits upon those who battle for Evangelical truth and genuine freedom of conscience.


The Miracle of the Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos



About my trip to Palestine, where hegumen Ignatius (now ranked among the Saints) is buried near the Oak of Mamre - This is my uncle - Ivan Raksha (1900-1986), a man of great destiny. Once a white officer, then an emigrant, then a monk in the monastery of St. Job near Munich, and finally, from the fortieth year, the abbot of the monastery in Hebron. The diligent builder of the temple of Abraham and Sarah at the Great Oak.A passionateamd  ardent reader of the prayer book. He was twice shown a miracle vision. The Miracle of the Appearance of the Most Holy Mother of God the Virgin Mary and Her Revelation and the Edification of the End of the World. His death is attributed to homicide with malice aforethought”.

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