Abstract
Information on the life of the Church through the eyes of the believers themselves unfortunately remains patchy, subjective and uneven, illustrating some aspects and/or periods of Church life rather vividly, while leaving many others out of the picture. Hence, instead of generalising, we have chosen to present accounts by individual witnesses, under various subtitles. Most of our material comes from Orthodox sources, hence the accounts deal mostly with that Church.
The greatest happiness for a priest is to die in prison.
(A Moscow priest who later did die in prison)
Christianity is life.
(Fr. Alexander El’chaninov)
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Pospielovsky, D.V. (1988). Believers About Themselves. In: Soviet Studies on the Church and the Believer’s Response to Atheism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19357-8_11
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