starets

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He was so alarmed that he wrote about it to the starets.

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There were pilgrims who constantly tramped from one holy place to another and from one starets to another, and were always entranced by every shrine and every starets.

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All he could do then was to obey the starets, to restrain himself, to undertake nothing, and simply to wait.

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Sergius obeyed the starets, showed his letter to the Abbot, and having obtained his permission, gave up his cell, handed all his possessions over to the monastery, and set out for the Tambov hermitage.

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All possibility of doubt about anything was silenced by obedience to the starets.

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