Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception

of 42 rubles to the dollar, amounted to very little. Into the bargain
he avoided meeting me and threatened me with arrest. I determ-
ined to settle the affair and I asked Metropolitan Benjamin of
Petrograd to come with me to the Swiato-Chudlovsky Monastery.
After a long search, we found Platon hiding inthe catacombs of the
monastery, in the very room in which Patriarch Hermoneges had
been stoned. I was a captain in the Army, and as such was fully
armed, but it never occurred to me to resort to arms. I grabbed
The Most Holy Patriarch Tickhon.
Platon by the collar, and pulled him out of hiding. Metropolitan
Benjamin, fearing a brawl, implored me to release Platon, who
was screaming at the top of his voice. Fifteen of the monks heard
his cries, ran in and wanted to arrest me, but when I showed them
my credentials, and they saw that it v/as I who had the power to
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