In the Orthodox Church, rich in its ascetics . there is a whole host of fools for Christ's sake. The word "stupidity" can be translated into modern Russian as stupidity, madness. Replacing the mask of external benevolence with seeming madness and lack of education, the fools, for the sake of Christ, denounced the indifference to the pen or the Pharisaism of modern society. Deeply humble, they did not seek vain human glory They did not perform false miracles, healing human ailments, they did it out of compassion for the sick, seeing the future, they sought to bring sinners to the consciousness of their sinfulness before God. For the first time collected together biographies of blessed mothers - from St. Ksenia of St. Petersburg to Lyubushka of Susaninskaya - open before the reader one of the pages of women's holiness .. Through our turbulent century from the free-thinking society of old Russia, through the turmoil of the revolution, the grief of wars, the difficulties of Soviet apostasy to the revived in the faith of Russia of our days the blessed mothers pass, bearing love and consolation, preaching with their lives the mercy of God for their people.