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‖ starets, staretz|ˈstarjɛts|
Pl. startsy, startzy |ˈstartsɪ|.
[Russ., = (venerable) old man, elder.]
In the Russian Orthodox Church, a spiritual leader or counsellor. Also transf.
1923G. Buchanan My Mission to Russia I. xviii. 240 Rasputin..thus gradually acquired the reputation of a holy man, or elder (staretz), and was credited with the gifts of healing and prophecy. 1955J. D. Salinger in New Yorker 29 Jan. 36/2 He meets this person called a starets—some sort of terribly advanced religious person—and the starets tells him about a book called the ‘Philokalia’. 1966A. Bloom Living Prayer v. 73 The Staretz Ambrose of Optina had the kind of vision which allowed him to see a person's real good. 1975Christian III. 91 The Startsy became enormously influential in the last hundred years of Tsarism. 1976Ibid. III. 150 She was meeting..a man who was himself the spiritual soul of one of the greatest startzy (spiritual fathers) of the nineteenth century West, the Abbé Huvelin. 1981A. Edwards Sonya 492 Rasputin..‘cured’ Tsarevich Alexis's hemophilia in 1904. Thereafter, with each recurrence of her son's illness, the Tsarina grew more dependent upon this starets. 1983Church Times 4 Feb. 7/1 They tell us of the hidden work of the Startsy, the ‘elders’ or spiritual fathers, whose counsel and prayer is an inspiration to many. |