"Traveling Through Pain" is the title of the autobiography of Saint Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol, who in a very short time became widely known to our devout people, was greatly loved, and is now widely honored, while new miracles of the Saint in the lives of those who invoke him are constantly being mentioned. The Saint records his journey, which is a journey through a pack of wolves trying to devour him, but each time the grace of God "thwarts the plans of nations." Thus, his journey was truly a journey through pain and at the same time a profound experience of the presence of God. Therefore, this pain and the trials did not bend the spirit of the Saint, but rather steeled him and cultivated within his soul a robust faith, an absolute trust in the person of Christ. He dictated his autobiography to his secretary in 1958, three years before his repose, because he himself was blind. Reading this record of the events of his life and the way he faced difficulties and temptations each time, one sees a man who lived the liturgical exhortation "let us commend our whole life to Christ our God." Saint Luke does not belong to some distant era. He is the Saint of our days. He stood fearless and free in the face of every threat and demonstrated how every person can remain free and strong against any regime of slavery...