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According to Greek author and researcher of "In the Footsteps of Jesus", Sofia Kioroglou, Father Ignaty Raksha emanated from the Crimea. He had a sister, named Nadezhda Raksha and a brother Yevgeny Igorevich Raksha.Ivan Raksha (1906-1986), an immigrant who received a monastery near Munich and received the name Ignatius. He was sent from the Diocese of foreign Orthodox churches in Palestine to Hebron, to the Oak of Mamvriy in Palestine in 1938. There were 14 monks led by Abbot Ignatius who was very beloved by all Palestinian Orthodox, a native revered old man. In the years of the mismanagement of Russian lands in Palestine, he built near the eternal Oak (from savings, the pennies he collected from pilgrims around the world) - a church. Since 1964, Abbot Ignatius Raksha (Ivan in the world) was in charge of the Russian site under the Mamvrian Oak and was the rector of the church of Sts. The forefathers, where for many years in the postwar period he served practically alone. The elder devoted almost a whole day to prayer, his names consisted of 25,000 names that he remembered at each Liturgy, and proskomidia lasted several hours. People who knew the old man from the Russian Diaspora tell that the Holy Light always descended and lit up his candles. "He didn't know Greek but shortly before the Greek pilgrimage groups departed from the Monastery, he gave each a piece of paper with the solution to the problem written on it.