Fr. Gerasim of Spruce Island: A Man Who Did Not Want to Take Part in Anyone’s Mistakes
October 12
Archimandrite Gerasim (Shmaltz) of Spruce Island, AK, passed away on this day in 1969.
On the left Archimandrite Gerasim (Shmaltz). On the right Bishop Laurus at Fr. Gerasim's cell 1968.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shmaltz was born in 1888 into a pious Russian Orthodox family in Aleksin, Tula Region. In 1906, Mikhail became a novice at St. Tikhon’s hermitage …
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