Metropolitan Philaret of New YorkPrecious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. (Psalm 115: 6)He was a rare, contemporary manifestation of the ascetic bishops of old, in whom a bold confession of the truth emerged in an organic way from the whole life in Christ. He was blameless in the Way, pure in the Life, and incorrupt in repose. He was the Blessed Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) of New York (1903 1985), an exponent of the Truth of the Gospel like few in his