Abbott Herman of Platina. Basil Willow

For the sake of readers, the amount of unique Orthodox material that was placed on Abbott Herman's lap to translate and publish to the English speaking world is staggering. Most of it pre-revolutionary, about incredible holy ones whom most of us have never heard of, as well as the numerous ones who passed through Stalin's gulags, some surviving, many not, but still require their lives to be published.

I literally saw him in tears overwhelmed by the cross of this mission placed on him.