- Bulgarian ascetic who walks over 20 kilometers each day to sit or stand in front of the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in Sofia to collect money for charitable causes
| Real name: | Dobri Dimitrov Dobrev / Добри Димитров Добрев | | Born: | 20 July 1914 Comment | | When did Dobri Dobrev die? / Died | 13 February 2018 | | How many years did Dobri Dobrev live? / Lived | 103 years | | Where was Dobri Dobrev born? | Bailovo, Bulgaria | | Where did Dobri Dobrev die? / Deathplace | Kremikovtsi Monastery, Bulgaria | | Nicknames: | Grandpa Dobri, Elder Dobri, The Saint of Bailovo | | Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
Dobri Dobrev Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Dobri Dobrev worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | Bulgarian | | Hair color: | White |
Who was Dobri Dobrev? / Facts
- Charity - Dobrev donates all the money he collects to charities, orphanages, churches and monasteries and he turned 100 in July 2014. Over the course of his lifetime, Dobrev donated over 80,000 Bulgarian lev (40,000 euros) to churches, monasteries and other noble deeds
- Good man - In Bulgarian, his name translates as "good" or "kind"
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His father died in World War I and his mother had to raise their children by herself
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Dobrev did not remember his youth and school years
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He decided to marry around 1940, which is around when Bulgaria joined World War II
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In one of the bombings of Sofia a bomb fell near him and he lost almost all his hearing
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Spiritual - Over the years Dobrev became detached from the material aspects of life and devoted himself entirely to the spirit world
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Around the year 2000, he decided to donate all his belongings to the Orthodox church when he began to live very modestly in a small extension to the Saints Cyril and Methodius parish church in his native village of Bailovo.
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About that time he embarked on his mission to raise funds for the restoration of churches and monasteries across Bulgaria
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It is this new direction in life and the example he gives with his asceticism that led many to call him The Saint of Bailovo
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Death - On 13 February 2018, Dobrev died at Kremikovtsi Monastery at the age of 103
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Last update: 15 February 2018
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