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Ignatius Brianchaninov

New Seeds, 2006

On the mystical power of the most ancient prayer
Concerning the mystical, *Jesus Prayer*: The Russian mystic, Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867) (pronounced... Brian-Kan-In-Nov), having studied the lives of the Saints and especially the earliest Desert Fathers from his youth, and who eventually became head of numerous monasteries in Russia beginning in 1832, authored this text on the history of the *Jesus Prayer*. ...

On the Prayer of Jesus: From the Ascetic Essays of Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov

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Ignatius Brianchaninov

Element Books, 1993

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner
St. Ignaty wrote at a time when the pilgrim of the famous spiritual autobiogaphy, "Thw Way of a Pilgrim," and the greatest of all Russian saints, St. Seraphim of Sarov were alive or in living memory. He wrote this book toward the end of his own life, and the simplicity of his message belies the profound depth of his teaching, just as the paucity of the pages--a hunrdred or so--bely the vast ...