I remember how in the 1970s the monks of the Lavra were prevented from conducting separate Holy Unction services. It was generally performed on Holy Wednesday.
A very young girl who was living near the Lavra became ill. She worked as an accountant at a children's clinic. In the courtyard of the clinic, they were building something, dug holes, and she accidently fell and hurt herself. A hard bump formed and she thought it would pass. When she went to see the doctors, they diagnosed cancer, and metastasis. She lay alone in the ward of the Botkin Hospital and burst into tears:
"For what, Lord?"
And she saw right in the ward the Blessed Virgin Mary:
“Lydia, why are you crying? Nobody left you."
Doctors couldn't help her, sent her home as hopeless. Her mother had faith, and she immediately turned to the Lavra monks with a request to donate and take communion.
The girl was brought to the Lavra, and we, having closed the Mikheevsky church, not turning on the lights, helped her by candlelight. Then she communed three times and returned to work healthy.
“How were you healed?” ask her colleagues.
“The Lord has healed me, through communion,” she answered.
It is only necessary to believe, to pray, and the Mother of God will hear and the Lord will not leave you.
Archimandrite Elijah (Reizmir), of the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra
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