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In these letters—available in English in their entirety for the first time—St John Chrysostom guides, comforts, and instructs his spiritual daughter, St Olympia. Written at the end of Chrysostom’s life, while he was in his final exile, we see in these pages the unshaken faith of a saint who triumphed over persecution. We also find the words of a concerned spiritual father, who gives St Olympia...

“I would like to,” you may say, “but I’m not able, for I have not succeeded in shaking off the dense cloud and darkness of despair which greatly overshadow me.” But this is just an excuse and a pretext! For I know well the nobility of your thoughts, I know the strength of your soul that is filled with piety, I know the greatness of your intelligence, and the power of your Christian way of thinking [philosophia] which alone is sufficient to command the madness of your despair to be cast into the sea,
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