Returning to the store, Basil continued to work and send money home to his family. The Elder advised him to remain in the world and raise a family, then after their children had grown, he and his wife were to serve God in the monastic life.īasil accepted these words as the will of God, and so he lived his life as the Elder had directed. The boy had a secret desire to become a monk, so one day he went to the St Alexander Nevsky Lavra to speak to one of the Elders about this.
When Basil was ten years old, his father died, and he was left to care for his ailing mother and his sister Olga.Ī kind neighbor took Basil with him to St Petersburg, and found him a job as a store clerk.
His parents, Nicholas and Chione, were peasants. Vasily (Basil) Nikolaevich Muraviov (the future Saint Seraphim) was born in 1866 in the town of Cheremovsky in the Yaroslavl province.
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