About the book: 2016 / During times of persecution, when the number of priests was reduced to a minimum, it was women who became the conductors of Christianity. Mothers, sisters, helpers, nannies, neighbors - these women preserved, raised and fed the Church. This book is about such women ascetics of the 20th century, their destinies and characters. The heroines of the stories are now considered great elders and have become objects of universal worship. But once they lived next to us, and it was in this everyday life, sometimes all too human, that the features of the saint’s face appeared.