Chapter

 1 1|             1. CHILDHOOD ~Our holy Father Sergius was born of noble,
 2 1|      Orthodox, devout parents. His father was named Cyril and his
 3 1|         not from men. ~One day his father sent him to seek for a lost
 4 1|       these things. Will you, holy Father, pray to God for me, that
 5 1|           persons such as you are, Father." The monk, astonished at
 6 1|         said, "I do not know them, Father." The monk replied, "I told
 7 1|         parents pleaded, "Reverend Father, hurry not away, but stay
 8 2|         expressed this wish to his father, but his parents said to
 9 2|          bestowed his share of his father's inheritance on him, retaining
10 2|        humility he entreated him, "Father, may the love of God be
11 2|      withheld me. Now, my lord and father, I am free from all bonds,
12 2|        well than we do, 0 Reverend Father." After discoursing with
13 2|            replied, "Yes, Reverend Father, we are willing with God'
14 3|       Sergius, and to say to him: "Father, we cannot continue without
15 3|            the Spirit. Our Blessed Father Sergius begged the bishop
16 3|             It is thou who wilt be father and abbot of thy brethren."
17 3|      dignity of abbot. Our revered father and abbot Sergius returned
18 3|       Having heard of our Reverend Father Sergius' way of life, he
19 3|       where, greeting our Reverend Father Sergius with the greatest
20 3|          in astonishment, saying, "Father, how bas this wheaten bread,
21 3| strengthened therein by their holy Father Sergius. According to an
22 3|            dare tell you, Reverend Father, and we would send away
23 3|        indeed not heard of Blessed Father Sergius? It is he speaking
24 3|        before the abbot, he said: "Father, 1 am but a sinner and a
25 4|           child, who fell ill. The father brought the boy to the monastery,
26 4|        pray for him: but while the father was yet speaking the boy
27 4|            to life, and moved. His father, returning with preparations
28 5|          the great prophet and our father in God, David, embracing
29 6|          and threes, and more. Our Father Sergius sent two of his
30 6|    separation from their spiritual father, went to the metropolitan
31 6|            with the message: "Your father, Aleksei the Metropolitan,
32 6|            for the return of their father. And what of the father?
33 6|            father. And what of the father? He rejoiced with his whole
34 7|         apparel. Isaac inquired of Father Makarii, who was standing
35 8|           If indeed God assist me, Father, 1 will build a monastery
36 9|       SERGIUS ~One day the blessed father was praying, as was his
37 9|           elder, saying, "Tell me, Father, for Gods sake what miraculous
38 9|        righteous and of sinners; a father to widows and orphans; that