Probably, this is one of the few saints who gained such fame after the initiative in the world and made a huge contribution to medicine during his lifetime, although ordeals in difficult wartime, forced wanderings across countries and continents, absolute volunteering and meager financial support could would break the spiritual impulses of anyone. A native of a large family, not outstanding in anything special, all his life he strove to benefit people, and he achieved his goal completely, both physically and morally, by realizing it.
One of the ruling bishops of the Simferopol and Crimean diocese, popularly revered far beyond the borders of Crimea, Luka Krymsky, whose prayer for healing sounds from the very heart of believers, is a very prominent personality among canonized saints.
He who lived in the last century and was canonized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church only in 1996, this great man did many miraculous deeds during his lifetime, thanks to which he gained worldwide fame. And although he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in the host of new martyrs and confessors of Russia for general church veneration, he was only in 2000, localresidents, Crimeans, prayed to him earlier in the Holy Trinity Cathedral as a confessor and saint.
The Genesis of Saint Luke
The life of St. Luke was extraordinary and full of miracles. The Archbishop of Simferopol, a healer, gave not only peace of mind, but also physical healing due to the fact that he was an unsurpassed surgeon with golden hands, a doctor from God.
A native of Kerch, he traveled the world and during a difficult martial law helped seriously ill people without funds and equipment. Being an excellent surgeon by vocation, he replaced pediatricians, obstetricians, dentists, and infectious disease specialists, and his works on anesthesiology became key works in medicine.
After St. Luke of Crimea reposed in the world in 1961, a prayer for healing to him with no less force from the lips of believers sounds almost constantly, pilgrimages to the fragrant cancer continue almost all year round. Only on major church holidays, access to it is blocked by a small barrier, but it is still possible to pray nearby during a church service.
Miraculous power of relics
The relics of Luka Krymsky are passed not only around cities, but also across countries, along with stories about his help, which can only be called a miracle. Miraculous prayers to St. Luke of Crimea for healing have been translated into different languages. Desperate to get help from traditional medicine or those whose life hangs in the balance resort to them, apply to icons and relics.
There is a lot of evidence that Luka Krymsky's prayer for healing helped couples who dreamed of having a baby and could not conceive, those who were threatened with oncological operations, those who could lose any organ due to illness or injury, there is not only in the Orthodox environment. Any person has the right to turn to St. Luke in his heart, and he will definitely support.
Balancing the controversy between scholars and clerics
The role of Archbishop Luke (in the world of Valentin Voyno-Yasenetsky) is also important in terms of the conventional wisdom that science is in conflict with religion or there is a confrontation between them. Often the greatest opponents of the religious context are supporters of conservative medicine, but, being one of the most prominent scientists in ophthalmology and topographic anatomy, Valentin Feliksovich always prayed before the operation, and icons were always present in his operating room. Having published a book on surgery, he continued both medical and episcopal activities, now he was better known under the name of Luka Krymsky.
Prayer for healing
Having experienced many lawsuits in his life from repression to famine, having determined his path, selfless and spiritually aspiring Luke chose the path of helping the suffering and needy. Today, a temple and a chapel named after him, a museum on the territory of the Cathedral, are open, and his followers support the activities of the saint during his lifetime. Prayer to Luka Krymsky for healing sounds almost constantly next to his cancer. About the miracles that he did during his lifetime,essays about him, there is a video with the stories of grateful parishioners.
Miracles continued even after his beginning in the world, his body is fragrant with the world, and this smell is characteristic (as eyewitnesses often say) where Luke comes to the rescue in his holy incarnation.
Ask and you will be rewarded
In many cities of the world, in Orthodox holy places, his relics are kept, to which people are applied, asking for miraculous healing. The Chapel of Luke in the city of Simferopol, in the Crimea, is at the same time a shelter for the poor, where they will always give a helping hand, help in illness.
Prayer to Luka Krymsky for healing has helped many people. Those who used it in requests for their he alth or a loved one received help even in hopeless cases. Therefore, even if you cannot come to Simferopol, contact the saint through the icon. Prayer to Luka Krymsky for healing, let it come from the heart - and then your request will be fulfilled.
