From the Prologue:
Tikhon was born in a simple peasant family in the village of Korotsk in the
providence of Novgorod in the year 1724 A.D. He received the monastic tonsure
at age thirty-four and because of his mortifications and great spiritual wisdom,
soon received greater and greater service until finally he was consecrated as
the Bishop of Voronezh. His episcopacy lasted for almost five years and,
because of frail health, he withdrew and took up residence in the monastery of
Zadonsk. He died peacefully in the year 1783 A.D. in Zadonsk where his
miracle-working relics now repose. He was a great ascetic of the Russian
Church, rare shepherd, intercessor and an author of the most beautiful spiritual
works. By his wisdom, holiness and asceticism, Tikhon can be equated among the
great fathers of the Orthodox Church of ancient times. Because of the many
witnessed miracles over his relics, he was proclaimed a saint, at first, by the
people and after that by the official church in the year 1861 A.D.
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