Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv gave his blessing to offer prayers for autistic children and their parents during the Divine Liturgy in all the churches and monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The specific date of March 24 was chosen, because it is the feast day of Venerable Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, who suffered from muteness until the age of 13, when he was cured at Pascha. Alexis was born in