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years of my service, heavy afflictions and laborious work in the
Canadian wilds had taken their toll on my health, and material lack have repeatedly brought my spirit to full despondency. In the last while I have been fully invalided with a terrible hernia, which from the constant journeying creates horrible pain; doctors are trying to force me towards a surgery, but I am afraid to lie beneath a knife, lest I die in this foreign land.
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Then, in 1908, Fr. Arseny was appointed by then Abp. Platon to the position of dean and administrator of the
Canadian parishes. With his knowledge of the many dialects of the Carpatho-Russian/Galician area and his ability to preach in them, the Canadian faithful (who mainly hailed from those areas)
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His years in the seminary and thereafter are only vaguely known. He apparently married while in the seminary and was assigned as a priest to a village church in
Kharkov. There is a question as to whether he had a son, but soon his wife died, probably about 1890, of an unknown cause. At some point
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spoke of the hard work by Fr. Igumen Arseny for the realization of the monastery. When Fr. Arseny was named the superior of the monastery, the crowd answered loudly, "He is worthy." The anniversary of this dedication has become an annual
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Arseny founded the St. Tikhon's
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to comfort the soldiers. In 1920, he was able to get to
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made his task difficult, even to the point of being injured by gun fire. In 1936, he was assigned briefly to
Detroit and Cleveland before retiring to St Tikhon's Monastery where he was appointed
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with the name Arseny, in honor of St. Arsenius of
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as well as welcoming many Galicians and Bukovinians who were arriving in numbers to Canada. His preaching produced for him the affectionate title "The Canadian
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walk of the ten miles through the mountains from Mayfield to the site of the new monastery. On the following May 30, 1906, at the dedication of the
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for blessing to establish a Pastoral School at the monastery in South Canaan. With the blessing of the synod, the approval of the Sixth
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almost immediately fell in love with him. With these rare missionary talents, he had great success with receiving back
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