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“I want to tell you a story that an eyewitness told me ...”

... This happened during the Great Patriotic War in the Smolensk region. There was a punitive operation in those partisan regions. The villagers fled to hide from the Nazi punishers, and one woman had a child in her arms with cerebral palsy. "Yes, you leave him, but while you drag him, and we will be tracked down, but he is still not a tenant!"

But the woman still dragged the child. The punishers overtook quickly, forced everyone to line up, and that sick child could not immediately stand up. The Germans tensed: they could not understand that he was poking around there, floundering.

The child barely got up and hardly hobbled along the row of his fellow villagers, blocking them with himself, reached the end, turned and dragged himself back, right under the muzzle of the machine guns.

Nobody understood what happened: either by sign or by order of an officer, the punishers lowered their guns and left ... For the sake of this sick child, the whole village remained alive! So sick children make others think about the meaning of life, think about gratitude to God for everything that they have ...

For their sacrificial life, the Lord teaches and saves others! "

Archpriest Valerian Krechetov.