Grandpa Dobri (1914-2018), or Dobri Dimitrov Dobrev to give him his proper name. He was a Bulgarian ascetic who walked twelve miles a day near and around the Cathedral of Sofia collecting money for different charities, orphanages monasteries and churches. He had married in 1940 and seen active service in WW2, but he had long outlived his wife and all but two of his children. With his walking and begging he raised the equivalent of 40,000 euros in the local currency the lev, including the biggest sum in 100 years for the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky in Sophia. He died aged 103 at Kremiskovksy Monastery.

















