He was regarded as a "starets" and a "yurodiviy" (holy fool) by his followers, who also believed him to be a psychic and faith healer.
However, he also had a reputation as a faith healer.
Her injuries are healed rapidly by a faith healer, but she is forced to spend two weeks having bed rest.
With some knowledge about medicinal herbs, he makes a living as a faith healer.
More generally, she was a faith healer.
The film's main character is a faith healer who claims to read people's minds but actually receives intimate details about his victims via a small radio.
So spirit possession and fascination, hitherto the preserve of faith healers and enthusiast sectaries, could be managed within experimental philosophy.
Faith healers can also be dangerous in that way.
