The "Lives of the Saints" by Dmitry Rostovsky are the famous Menaion of the Saints, which had and continue to have a colossal spiritual influence on many generations of Orthodox Christians. Dmitry Rostovsky was often called the "Chrysostom of Russian Literature", "The Good Shepherd", "The Star of the Whole Country by Teachings and Enlightening Miracles", "The Paradise Branch of Little Russia", "The Hierarch with Honey-Mouthed Lips". Saint Demetrius of Rostov wrote the Lives of the Saints for every day of the year for twenty years. Cheti-Minei can literally be translated as (reading for each month). These are the books of the lives of the saints of the Orthodox Church, and these narratives are set out in the order of the months and days of each month, hence the name of their “menaion”. "Lives of the Saints" - collections of original and translated monuments, hagiographic and rhetorical church teaching words and other writings of the Fathers of the Church and intended for daily reading during the month.