09 — Glorification and Legacy

The end and the afterlife of the work: the quiet death at Nikolo-Babaevsky on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women in 1867; the glorification in 1988 at the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus’; and the extraordinary twentieth-century reach of his writings — into ROCOR and convert spirituality, into Fr. Seraphim Rose’s The Soul After Death, and into English through Archimandrite Lazarus Moore and Holy Trinity Publications.

This section covers the repose and canonization, and the reception history that made a nineteenth-century Russian bishop one of the most-read ascetical authors of the Orthodox diaspora and the English-speaking convert world.

Files

File	Description
repose-and-canonization.md	The death in 1867; the relics (now at Tolga Monastery); the glorification by the Moscow Patriarchate’s Jubilee Council in 1988
influence-and-reception.md	His shaping of ROCOR and convert spirituality; the influence on Fr. Seraphim Rose’s The Soul After Death; the English translations of Lazarus Moore and Holy Trinity Publications; the Osipov revival in Russia

See Also

• 03 — Bishop of the Caucasus — the retirement at Nikolo-Babaevsky where he died
• 07 — The Soul After Death — the teaching that shaped Seraphim Rose
• Fr. Seraphim Rose — the diaspora author who carried his eschatology into English