Monk Micah died in the Trinity Lavra in 2009.

Monk Micah died in the Trinity Lavra in 2009. The monk was 77 years old.Surprisingly, according to all the doctors' forecasts, the man was supposed to live no more than a couple of decades, and even with serious complications: Father Micah suffered from a serious brain disease. At the age of 8, the boy stopped growing, but having settled at the age of 20 in the Lavra, in a short time he reached the average height of a man of his age!

Father Micah's coordination of movements was impaired, but this did not prevent him from becoming a bell ringer, and even creating a special melody known as the Lavra chime. The "invalid" daily worked at the monastery, planted and watered flowers. And at the age of 50, he underwent a trepanation of the skull, which caused genuine surprise of the doctors. The fact is that the surgeons saw a dried-up capsule instead of the cerebellum in the monk's head. According to all the laws of medicine, a person could not live, and even more so, actively work with such a diagnosis. Father Micah lived for another 27 years and peacefully passed away to the Lord.

But that’s a monk, but you probably want stories about ordinary people, but not very church ones? One woman named Lydia had advanced breast cancer. They had an operation, but the woman did not get better. On the contrary, she was bedridden. Then her mother went to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, invited a priest. The patient was unctioned and communed three times within a few days. And Lidia's relatives prayed daily in the Lavra at the relics of the monk. Believe it or not, within a few days, the hopeless woman recovered. Fully.