The author of the book is the daughter of an Orthodox priest, a righteous man of the world, who died in 1944 in the Dora concentration camp near Buchenwald. She sets herself a difficult task: to write a biography of a saint that would be neither a panegyric nor a “vita.” What resulted is a deeply personal, emotional account based on documents and facts—combining real narration and artistic imagination, and above all—an enormous share of love.