Slave who became a saint

[Svetlana Grenier]

Dear Natalie, it is Иоанн Русский

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Russian

Best regards
Svetlana


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Natalie Kononenko <nataliek at ualberta.ca>wrote:

> 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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