Health and Disease. From the Life and Teachings of the Saints

Why is a person sick? Why is the disease associated with sin? Is it always? How should Orthodox person behave in illness? How does the church help to overcome the disease? The author of the book, the practitioner himself, suggests looking for answers to these and many other questions in the legacy of the Holy Fathers and devotees of piety of the XIX and XX centuries. The holy fathers tried to console the suffering bodily illness in such a way that they understand the spiritual causes of the disease. When an understanding is that physical manifestations of the disease are secondary, and the first-axis are changes in the spiritual level, then the patient thinks about choosing his spiritual path