Most likely, it was Elder Theodore who blessed Xenia for the most difficult Christian feat – foolishness.

For many years I suffered from a serious illness, which was expressed in severe headaches. I was treated by a neurologist. She was an unbeliever. Once I turned to a psychic, and there I had a seizure - my body began to convulse. I felt very bad. Finally, one day the attending physician told me: "We will not cure you," and advised me to go to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. So I gradually came to God. She often went to the Lavra, attended lectures, but there was no healing.

In 1990, I was visiting my sister in St. Petersburg, and she suggested that we go to the chapel of Blessed Xenia. When I arrived there, at first I doubted: "How will she help me?" But it was through Blessed Xenia that I felt the miraculous mercy of God. In the chapel I met Elder Catherine, who told me: "You will be cured in the monastery, you will come completely different." I remembered these words for the rest of my life. A year later, when I came to my native Temnikov to visit my parents, I went to pray in church, and the local priest advised me to visit the revived Sanaksar Monastery and the grave of Father Theodore /Ushakov/. And it was here that the words of the eldress about healing began to come true.

Through the grace-filled intercession of Elder Theodore before the Lord, I was completely freed from my illness. Now the Sanaksar Monastery and the grave of Elder Theodore are my native place, where I constantly go for spiritual help and support. I continue to visit St. Petersburg and always thank Blessed Xenia...

Elizaveta Kolchanova, Moscow Region, Mozhaisk

What happened? Xenia sent the woman to her spiritual father, Elder Theodore, for healing, as she would have done in life:

"Go to Sanaksary, dear." They will help you there.

... And now Ksenia is back in the capital. Brilliant St. Petersburg, the century of Elizabeth Petrovna, then Catherine. The flourishing of science and culture, the construction of beautiful buildings in the Baroque style and urban ensembles, masterpieces of classicism: the Winter Palace and the Smolny Cathedral, the Admiralty and the General Staff Building, the Gostiny Dvor. Balls, holidays, entertainments. And on the outskirts, including on the Petersburg side, there are wooden houses, pavements and temples, shops, markets and taverns.

The nobility is fornicating, and the people are depraved. In high society, not to have a mistress, a lover is not comme il faut. How is it possible, pardon me, mon cher, who now observes ridiculous marital fidelity? Take our Empress, for example, as if the whole world did not know that after many pranks and amusements she had at last concluded a secret marriage with Razumovsky. And what about Mother Empress Catherine? Yes, her favorites not only receive palaces and estates as gifts, but also rule Russia together with her. So what is the demand from us, the wretched?

St. Petersburg of the XVIII century was the same prodigal Babylon as it is today.

And in it the Lord revealed Xenia, a righteous woman, by the power of love for her husband and God. She walked the streets among people, kindling in them conscience and the memory of God, because she was clearly holy to all eyes. His saint. She showed purity to debauchery. Not to condemn sinners, no.