"Traveling through pain" is the title of the autobiography of Saint Luke, Archbishop of Symferopol, who became widely known in our pious people in a very short period of time, loved very much, and is now widely honored, while new miracles of the Saint are constantly mentioned in the lives of those who invoke him.
The Saint records his journey, which is a journey through a pack of wolves trying to tear him apart, but every time the grace of God "scatters the plans of nations." Thus, his journey was truly a journey through pain and at the same time a stunning experience of the presence of God. Therefore, this pain and trials did not break the Saint's spirit, but tempered and cultivated within his soul a strong faith, an absolute trust in the person of Christ.
He dictated his autobiography to his secretary in 1958, three years before his repose, because he himself was blind. By reading this account of the events of his life and the way he faced difficulties and temptations each time, one sees a person who lived out the liturgical exhortation "in all our life let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ our God."
Saint Luke does not belong to a distant era. He is the Saint of our days. He stood fearless and free in the face of every threat and showed that every person can remain free and strong in the face of any regime of slavery.