The Seventh Net
Two years passed, like snowmelt. But the malice did not die away. Its greatest demon triumphed: Iosaf Mytkevych passed away and Kraisky took over the helm of the eparchy. This stunned everyone who knew Porfyriy. Rumours began to fly that Satan was roaming the world in a long black cowl, that a child with hooves was born somewhere and that in a village church near Belgorod an old icon of the Holy Mother began to weep during the evening service.
The new eparch had much to attend to in Belgorod, however Father Porfyriy maintained a vigilant watch through the eyes of his adherents on the friendship between Skovoroda and Kovalynsky and, gloating, he informed Father Petro or the boy’s father in Olshanka about their every meeting. The family suffered, fumed, sought a way out of
