Before you is a new book by the writer Natalya Gorbacheva, known to both secular and church readers, from the already beloved series “Stories about Saints and Believers.” There are real friends, and there are true ones. Our true friends are saints. But how to learn to recognize these friends and communicate with them, you will understand after reading this book. You will find a story about the famous Abbess of the Gornensky Monastery, Georgiy (Shchukina): about her childhood during the siege and about the miracle of salvation. Previously unknown details of the life of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg and her new miracles. A Christmas story about a dying man is also waiting for you, which ends in a happy way... The path to God is not strewn with roses. This book tells how the most ordinary people search and find this road.