Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky)

Valentin Felixowitsch Woino - Jassenezki (Russian Валентин Феликсович Войно - Ясенецкий; . * 27 Apriljul / May 9 1877greg in Kerch; . † June 11, 1961 in Simferopol, also known as St. Luka, St. Luke or Luke the Confessor ) was Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea and Bishop of Tashkent and is a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Career

Born in 1877 in Ukraine Kerch, the son of a noble family of Polish origin, he studied medicine and worked since 1903 as a country doctor in a hospital on Lake Baikal. There he married and had four children. In 1917 he became chief physician of a large hospital in Tashkent, where he also taught as a professor of surgery at the University. His commitment to the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union soon earned him a problem. Nevertheless, he was ordained a bishop in the course of 1923 a monk and on 8 May of the same year in the region of Samarkand in secret.

Tracking

Ten days after his return to Tashkent, he was arrested by the GPU; the charge was anti- revolutionary intrigues and spying for Britain. The two years of his exile he spent in Turuchansk, where he worked as a surgeon in a hospital. After further deportation in various hamlet on the edge of the Arctic Sea in the spring of 1924 he was called back to Turuchansk because there is needed a surgeon. In 1926 he was allowed to return Tashkent.

In 1930 he was arrested again; this time on the grounds that he had made ​​aid to the murder of the professor Mikhailovsky. The request of the Mikhailovsky widow to bury her husband in the church, the authorities took the occasion, " which they stated as a motive for his alleged murder of aid, he wanted to prevent religious fanaticism that the professor raise up a dead man with the help of materialistic science " The next time he again spent in prisons and in exile.

In the early 1930s he was treated in Leningrad due to a tumor. A vision that he experienced during a church service, the commitment to the service of the church reminded him.

Soon after, he was summoned again to Moscow, where the offer was made to him by renewed interrogations to be allowed to continue his scientific work involving local anesthesia and the surgical treatment of festering wounds - but assuming the task of the priesthood, which he refused. In 1933 he was released and returned to Tashkent, where he worked in a small hospital. 1934 appeared his work on the surgical treatment of festering wounds, for which he later received a Stalin Prize.

Although at a tropical disease suffering that caused a retinal detachment, he continued his surgical work until 1937. In the wake of the intensifying persecution of the Church, he was, together with the Archbishop of Tashkent and other clerics arrested. He was accused that he had founded an anti- revolutionary organization, and subjected him to an uninterrupted interrogation, which lasted 13 days and nights. After further interrogation and torture he signed a confession and was banned in early 1940 for the third time in Siberia, this time in the Krasnoyarsk region. In Tomsk, he continued his research.

With the beginning of the Russian campaign he was appointed chief physician of the Hospital of Krasnoyarsk, with responsibility for all hospitals in the area. In the following years he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic and raised to the rank of archbishop. In 1943 he took part in a council, which elected Sergius Patriarch, and was appointed a member of the permanent synod of the Patriarchate. Overall, it was over 1250 sermons, of which 700 were recorded and collected in 12 volumes, were published in Russia.

In 1944 the hospital was moved to Krasnoyarsk Tambov, where he also took over the management of the local diocese. In 1946 he was transferred to the Crimea peninsula and appointed Bishop of Simferopol. Due to illness he had to stop his work as a surgeon, but he continues to hold an advisory capacity. In 1956, he became blind completely but still celebrated the Divine Liturgy and led the diocese.

He died on June 11, 1961 and was buried with great sympathy of the clergy and a great crowd. His grave soon became a place of pilgrimage; it should have been there occurred many miracles. In the Soviet Union it was officially called, there would be no literature about him.

Related Topics

• Soviet Union
• Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union