“...Dear reader, the book you are holding in your hands is about one of these ascetics - priest Pavel Santalov, a monk Nifont, who was honored to take the schema before his death. Father Pavel was born in 1925 into a peasant family. At the age of six, he was forced to follow his dispossessed parents into exile in Solovki. Further, the confessional feat of young Paul continued during the Great Patriotic War. Then he had years of study at the Moscow Theological Seminary and the Leningrad Theological Academy. In 1962, after graduation, he accepted the priesthood and served in parishes. This was the time of Khrushchev’s persecution of the Church and all kinds of oppression of believers, but Father Pavel continued to build and decorate churches, helped his parishioners, and subsequently cared for a large number of people...”