Slave who became a saint

[Natalie Kononenko]

Dear Fellow list members,

I remember a post about a Ukrainian man who was a slave in the Ottoman
empire.  His master, a military man, offered him manumission because
he was so godly.   He refused saying that God had meant for him to
suffer as a slave.  Shortly after that he began performing miracles.

Have any of you hear of this?  Can you help?  Something tells me that
the man was St. Nestor, but I could be wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Natalie

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Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6
780-492-6810
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkloreukraine/
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/Shkola/
http://ukrainealive.ualberta.ca

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