Procopius the Righteous prays for unknown sailors (1914)

Procopius the Righteous arrived in Veliky Ustyug and presciently knew that because of the wicked deeds of the townspeople, the city would be destroyed by water and fire. He asked the inhabitants to repent, but they did not even think. And then the hour of reckoning came: clouds came, a hurricane, lightning flashed, the Earth shook. Then the inhabitants just started to pray together with Procopius for salvation. And the city was pardoned, but the people, as always, turned to their former sinful life.
Roerich compares Procopius the Righteous with Indian Rishis and Tibetan lamas who take upon themselves the sins of people: “Procopius the Righteous in selflessness took the stone cloud away from his native city and always prayed on the high bank of the Dvina just for the unknown swimmers.
And in the West, many ascetics, like Procopius, exchanged their high earthly position for the benefit of the world. In these exploits, in these acts of prayer "for the unknown, for the unspeakable and unwritten" there is the same great principle of anonymity, the same knowledge of transient earthly incarnations, which is so attractive in the East. "(Nicholas Roerich. Shambhala)