Haribi biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Father is an Assyrian, mother is a Georgian. In the family, he learned to deeply respect his father. When he was years old, his mother gave him the children's gospel, which he read several times, but at that time he took as a “beautiful fairy tale”, i.e. in childhood he fell inside the concrete mixer and barely survived, almost lost his limbs.

Then for two years he could not get to his feet, then he sat in a stroller, then he walked with difficulty on the crutches. Subsequently, he began to play sports, received a black belt and the second given, became the four -time champion of Georgia in the eastern struggle. In Georgia, a service in the army was held. He married, the couple had three children. When his wife, being in the eighth month of pregnancy, was seriously ill in the year, doctors said that it was impossible to save her, but we need to think about saving the child’s life.

After the wife spent ten days in the hospital in critical condition, her husband took her as a hopelessly ill. He took her to the grave of the Monk Gabriel Urgebadze, where he turned to the old man with a prayer for healing his wife and salvation of the child.

At that time, he made a promise to become a monk if the prayer was heard. On the second day after that, in one night, his wife began to recover quickly, and her parents safely born Ketevan's daughter. After a miracle, I forgot about my promise. On the recovery of his wife, he left for Kyiv, where he opened a sports school. But, as he said, “my nerves were handed over, the heartbeat intensified [at that time often went to the Kiev Holy Trinity Ionian monastery, where local Georgians used to gather.

Once he met Mother Ksenia, who suddenly turned to him with the words:“ Bless you, father Seraphim in response to his indignant perplexity, mother Ksenia said that he would become that he would become "The person who will pray for his people, that such is the will of God." After that, his life changed - according to him, he "began to see different dreams. Subsequently, it happened.

Then he took a great schema with the name Seraphim. He was beaten for attempts to preach among the sectarians. He was going to leave Holy Mount Athos. In the year, the Patriarch of the Georgian Elijah II was represented, who invited him to stay in Georgia and become a shepherd for the Assyrians in the village of Staraya Kandeli Kanda Kanda Kanda Mutztsky municipality.

He accepted the patriarchal blessing and in the year was ordained into the rank of deacon in Georgia. He attached many works for the churching of the village of Dzveli Kanda: conducted monthly conversations on various topics, invited youth to the temple. He began to serve in Aramaic, close to the Assyrians, which played a large role in attracting the Assyrians from different ends of Georgia.

Together with the chorus he collected, he began to compose and record new polyphonic chants, which quickly gained wide fame and recognition. Under his beginning in the village, a large temple was erected in the name of thirteen Syrian fathers in which the monastery was established. For a year he wore San Schiarchimandrite. The used materials of Rakviashvili Hatun, “Mother Ksenia hit me with a stick:“ I asked you a blessing!

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