starets

Example Sentences

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“Well, the starets tells him about the Jesus Prayer first of all. ‘

From Literature

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

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“Do you want to hear what the special method of praying was that the starets told him about?” she asked.

From Literature

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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