St. Lawrence of Chernigov

Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ

I often asked Starets what to do, that my father had not received Holy Communion for a long time. And then one day my father gets up in the morning and says:
“I have to receive communion. Someone prayed for me " and told his dream: "As if I was lying in a grave and there was earth on me. A priest came and began to dig and said, "Get up, Ivan." I got up and walked.
I meet people I know on the street and they say, "Oh, oh, Ivan, you were dead for twenty years and you lay in the grave and you got up."
And I think, how dead I was and I seem to be alive. Then I woke up, I started to remember how many years I had not communed and it turned out to be twenty years."
On Sunday he asked for forgiveness, he communed and died the same year.

St. Lawrence of Chernigov

Schema-Archimandrite Lawrence, in the world Luke Evseevich Proskura, was born in 1868 in the region of Chernigov. He reposed on the Feast of Theophany, 1950, and after his death his relics were found to be incorrupt. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized him as a saint in 1993 (commemorated on December 29/January 11 and January 6/19). Besides the gift of healing, St. Lawrence was known for his gift of prophecy, especially concerning events surrounding the end of the world and the coming of Antichrist. His words have striking significance for us today.