Immediately after publication, the book “Ascetics - Lay People” gained great popularity in the Orthodox world and went through many reprints in Greece and other European countries. Its author is the Athonite hieromonk, the closest associate of Elder Paisius the Holy Mountain. The ascetics whose lives are given in this book are guides to the Kingdom of Heaven. By opening the road to holiness, which they themselves have walked to the end, they testify that it is possible to become a saint in the world. In every era, Christ's chosen ones are born, and, thank God, they still exist today. It is through their prayers that this world still exists.