Christmas John N.

1803 - 94
He graduated from the course at the Moscow Theological Academy. Active members of Moscow's consistory, he especially liked and knew how to reconcile the couple, who had attended at the consistory of divorce. On his initiative, the Society for lovers of spiritual enlightenment, one of the founders of which he was done an excellent edition of the Rules of St.. Apostles and the Ecumenical and Local Councils ", in Greek and Slavonic texts, with explanations Zonaras, Aristina and Balsamon (1875 - 84). In 1876, when the same society they open "division of spiritual and moral books", the extension of tens of thousands of books from all over Russia; of these books, many drawn by P. In 1874 he published his "catechetical talks" and "Conversations on fasting, as well as speech" On the false view of modern science on man and his life ". Of his many sermons, some printed in the "edifying reading" in the "diocesan (Church), Moscow News, Moscow News," Orthodox Review ". Reports on various issues of his church (for example, "On starokatolichestve"), spoken in the "Society of Lovers of spiritual enlightenment", published in the "reading" of society. See. I.N. Korsunskij "Archpriest I.N. Christmas "(Moscow, 1894).