Chapter

1 2|      and bear with us; we are old, poor and sick, and we have
2 2|  saint was twenty-three years old when he joined the order
3 3|  virtue, and died in advanced old age. Stephen, the saint'
4 3| tonsure when he was ten years old, others say twelve. People
5 3|      for the tonsure, neither old nor young, nor rich nor
6 3|      caftan; his clothing was old and worn, dirty, patched.
7 8|   Metropolitan Aleksei, being old, and seeing his weakness
8 8|     all the more do 1 wish in old age to continue in poverty."