In the capital of Crimea - Simferopol - on Odessa Street is located the Holy Trinity Convent. The main temple of this monastery is called Holy Trinity Cathedral, but Christians who come here on a pilgrimage often refer to it differently - "the church of St. Luke", because here the relics of St. Bows of Crimean.
Saint Luke was ranked by the Orthodox Church as a saint in 1995. This is one of those saints who lived and performed spiritual feats not in the distant past, but more recently - in the 20th century.
The Life of St. Luke
The future saint was born in 1877 in Kerch. In the world, he was called Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky. Already in his youth, he felt the need to help suffering people, so he became a physician - and a practicing physician, and researcher. As a surgeon in Tashkent, he regularly attended worship services and other spiritual events. Once at a personal meeting, the bishop of Tashkent Innokenty advised him to become a clergyman, and the young doctor followed the advice.
For three years he served as a priest, and in 1923 he tonsured monks under the name Luke, and in the same year he became a bishop. It was a difficult time for Christians: the Soviet government persecuted clergy. Luka's father did not escape repression: he was arrested and sent into exile until 1942.
Having become a priest, Luke did not leave medicine. Being in exile in a remote village, he treated the sick. During the Great Patriotic War, after the end of the exile, he worked in a military hospital. He did not leave scientific activity either. In 1934, the medical priest published the book Essays on Purulent Surgery, and in 1943 - "Late resections of infected gunshot wounds of the joints." These scientific works still have not lost their relevance.
In 1943, Luke was elevated to the rank of archbishop, and in 1946 he was appointed to the Crimean diocese. It was not easy to lead the diocese in the conditions of the post-war devastation, but difficulties did not stop St. Luke. He managed to prevent the closure of churches and seek the creation of new ones; he made sure that priests strictly abided by church rules and fought against various sects. As archbishop, he remained a medical practitioner.
Archbishop Luke died in 1961, is buried in a cemetery near the church of All Saints.
