Saint Innocent, Apostle to America

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2006
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 345
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.6 cm × 14.0 cm × 2.6 cm
ISBN-10: 0‒913836‒60-5
ISBN-13: 978‒0‒913836‒60-6

   
Paul D. Garrett

“Initially[...this...]book was to be a condensed translation of Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovskii i Kolomenskii po ego sochineniiam pis’mam i razskazam sovremennikov [Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, According to His Writings, Letters, and the Stories of His Contemporaries] by Ivan Barsukov (Moscow: 1883). Soon, however, it became clear that this would be inadequate. [...]Barsukov himself was not content to stop there, but continued for the next twenty years collecting materials on this great hierarch which he eventually published in six volumes. Turning to these, we found them often superior in content, style and clarity to those included in the early biography. [...]When subsequently another source[...]was found to augment the narrative[...], it was decided to work directly from the primary sources rather than be bound to Barsukov’s rather limited initial collection.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

FOREWORD by His Beatitude, Theodosius, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All America and Canada
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: THE PREPARATION
   Chapter 1: Childhood
   Chapter 2: Decision
   Chapter 1: Layover
PART TWO: “ENLIGHTENER OF THE ALEUTS”
   Chapter 1: Aunalakhskha
   Chapter 2: The Aleuts
   Chapter 3: Kisagunak
   Chapter 4: Buildings
   Chapter 5: The Shaman
   Chapter 6: The Price and Fruit of Missions
   Chapter 7: Home Life and Labors
   Chapter 8: End of An Era
   Chapter 9: The Tlingits
   Chapter 10: Fort Ross
   Chapter 11: “In A Little While You Will Not See Me”
PART THREE: HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK AGAIN
PART FOUR: “APOSTLE TO AMERICA”
   Chapter 1: “Dangers on the High Seas”
   Chapter 2: The Return
   Chapter 3: Petropavlosk
   Chapter 4: Kamchatka
   Chapter 5: The Coming of Change
   Chapter 6: The Verdict
PART FIVE: THE VENIAMINOVS
   The Veniaminovs
PART SIX: THE ASIAN YEARS
   Chapter 1: The Background
   Chapter 2: Expansion
   Chapter 3: Conflict In St. Petersburg
   Chapter 4: The Triumph
   Chapter 5: Yakutsk
   Chapter 6: Shipwreck and A Saint
   Chapter 7: New Tides of Change
PART SEVEN: METROPOLITAN OF MOSCOW
   Chapter 1: The Call
   Chapter 2: The Coming
   Chapter 3: Descent of Darkness
   Chapter 4: “Let Your Light So Shine”
   Chapter 5: “No Stranger To Missionary Work”
   Chapter 6: Memory Eternal
EPILOGUE