Posts a notice on the door of every church

When Tolstoy is excommunicated the Holy Synod posts a notice on the door of every church. In part it says: “God has permitted a new false prophet to appear in our midst today, Count Leo Tolstoy A world-famous author, Russian by birth, Orthodox by baptism and education, Count Tolstoy, lead astray by pride, has boldly and insolently dared to oppose God, Christ and his holy heirs. Openly and in sight of all, he has denied the mother who nurtured him and brought him up: the Orthodox church; and he has devoted his literary efforts and God-given talent to spreading doctrines which are contrary to Christ and the Church, and to undermining their fathers’ faith in the minds and hearts of the people – the Orthodox faith ... In his works and letters ... he preaches the abolition of all the dogma of the Orthodox Church and of the very essence of the Christian faith with fanatical frenzy; he denies the living and personal God glorified in the Holy Trinity, Creator and Providence of the universe; he refutes our Lord Jesus Christ, God made Man, Redeemer and Savior of the world, who suffered for us and for our salvation, and who has been raised from the dead; he refutes the Immaculate Conception of the human manifestation of Christ the Lord, and the virginity, before and after the Nativity, of Mary, Mother of God, most pure and eternally virgin; he does not believe in the life hereafter or in judgement after death; he refutes all the Mysteries of the Church and their beneficial effect; and, flaunting the most sacred articles of faith of the Orthodox community, he has not feared to mock the greatest of all mysteries: the Holy Eucharist ... therefore the Church no longer recognizes him among her children and cannot do so until he has repented and restored himself to communion with her” (p587, Tolstoy, Troyat).