Prayer squalid (нищенский)
Christian parable
He lived in Petersburg, one good and pious nobleman.

Had he had a house, many friends.

Unfortunately, he had the misfortune of being subjected to the doghouse sovereign:

it was erected some kind of slander, were tried, and again threatened with prison.

The unfortunate nobleman fell ill from grief(.печаль)

All the old friends turned away from him.

At this time, arrived in St. Petersburg Valaam Monastery strict ascetic father Nazarov.

He was familiar with non-private nobleman and went to console him in sorrow.

The unhappy wife of the owner threw in the legs Nazarov, and father prayed:

- Pray, father, to cause my husband got a good outcome.

- Well, - said the elder - of course we must pray to the Lord,

but you must ask the application and close the emperor.

Give me some money, I'll ask them for you.

Elder gave gold.

- No, - he said - I did not do. Is there copper or fine silver?

They brought both.

Father Nazariy took the money and left.

Late in the evening he came again to the great man and calmly said:

- All the king promised to do something close for you, be calm and wait for good news.

And indeed, the old man still sat at the bedside,

as the latter received the news of the successful completion of his case.

Good news acted positively on the patient.

Grandee began to thank the old man and asked him

to say which of the approximate emperor took part in his greatest distress,

for whom he should pray and who to thank.

It was only then discovered that the father Nazariy none of the neighbors to the sovereign people was not.

Instead, he walked the whole day on city streets and gave to the poor the money taken from their lords.

- So, thank God - said in conclusion, the elder.

- He is merciful, to heed the prayers of the wretched and put on a good heart

Emperor once again to reconsider your case.

And do not forget and the nobles of the Lord - your benefactors,

beggars

and paupers.

They pray a lot can before the throne of God!