| Ioann [Shakhovskoi, Dmitrii Alekseevich], Ieromonakh (1902 - 1989) | Presviataia. Berlin, Izdanie Marfinskago Podvor´ia, 1933. 18 p. | €125,00 |
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| 8 vo, very attractive publisher´s covers, pictorial decorative title page with complex design in red. Printed on better paper. VERY GOOD TO MINT. VERY RARE. An Archbishop Ioann of San Francisco is one of the brightest representetives of Russian Othodox diaspora. He lived and served on Mount Athos, and in Paris, Yugoslavia, Berlin and the USA.He was a prolific writer and pastor who preached on the Voice of America radio network and engaged in polemics with atheistic suppression of Christianity in the Soviet Union. Most of his works (in Russian), published in pre WWII Germany are very rare. Archbishop´s Ioann of San Francisco personal copy with numerous notes and corrigenda in black pencil. In all the probability a draft for the 2d, revised edition from author´s archive. See: Paert,Irina Spiritual Elders: Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 00214 C25 |