Indicating the path to salvation

The name of the bishop of Peter (Yekaterinovsky), now undeservedly forgotten, can rightfully be put on a par with the names of the saints Filaret (Drozdov), Metropolitan of Moscow, St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), the bishop of the Caucasian and Black Sea, St. Theophan (Govorov), the recluse of the Vyzhensky. The book of Bishop Peter "Instructing the Way to Salvation" before the revolution was published several times by the Optina Desert. This indicates the importance in the matter of the spiritual formation of a Christian was attached to the book by the Optina elders. Contemporaries wrote: "such works as the" path to salvation "of the bishop of Theophanes and the" indication of the path to salvation "of the bishop of Peter, along with the" invisible abuse "of Nicodemus Svyatogorets, should be the table books of the shepherds."