In Russia, in the famous Optina Pustyn, there was a famous confessor, elder Ambrose.

In Russia, in the famous Optina Pustyn, there was a famous confessor, elder Ambrose. All Russia knew that he saw the hearts of the people and read their thoughts. One day, a famous actress from Moscow came  to check whether they were telling the truth. It was said that on the eve of her pilgrimage, she had bet with someone that all the stories about the elder were a fiction. The actress was called Vera. She never saw Fr. Ambrose, and he did not know about her. When Vera entered the monastery gate, she saw a multitude of people crowding around the elder, and immediately thought that he was just an ordinary hypocrite. This evil thought touched the keen spirit of the great ascetic, and suddenly, leaving his visitors, he approached the metropolitan theatrical diva and said: “Vera arrived to look at the hypocrite!”. The actress was so shocked by the shrewdness of God's man,