The trial in Tashkent in the case of professor of surgery P.P. Sitkovsky, accused of counter-revolutionary activities, attracted enormous attention. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, also a professor-surgeon, was invited as an expert. The chairman of the board of the GPU of Turkestan, Jacob Peters, was literally enraged by the calm, convincing arguments of St. Luke in defense of the defendant and, as they say, “got personal”: “Tell me, priest and professor Yasenetsky-Voino, how do you pray at night and slaughter people during the day?” - I cut people to save them. And in the name of what are you cutting, citizen public prosecutor? The audience burst into laughter and applause, releasing the tension - many knew that Peters' question contained a threatening context: a priest should not shed the blood of even a chicken. But Saint Luke received permission from the Patriarch to engage in surgery... Peters was not humbled: - How is it that you believe in God - have you seen Him, your God? “I haven’t seen God, but I’ve done a lot of surgery on the brain, but I’ve never seen the mind there, or conscience either.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru