Archimandrite Barsanuphe’s funeral

Archimandrite Barsanuphe (Ferrier – Barsanuphius in English) passed away on October 20 in his 84th year. He was first laid to rest in the Saint-Esprit skete church (Yvelines), where he had lived since he became a monk in 1964. In the same church is located the tomb of the great iconographer Father Gregory (Krug), who died in 1969. His spiritual children watched him there for three days, then in the