Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Olsufiev’s presence at St. Sergius’s shrine played an exceptional role in preserving the Lavra's shrines and relics during that difficult time.
124 artifacts made of stone, ceramics, and metal were discovered during archaeological excavations in the Church of the Holy Mother in the town of Melnik in the Blagoevgrad province of southwestern Bulgaria.
Natalia Prokofieva
When the prisoners were brought on barges, they disembarked on the shore, where they lived and built the railway and the bridge. There were many deaths, and they were not taken far to be buried.
The village of Naberezhny in Russia’s northern Pechora region arose essentially on the site of what was once a large cemetery—a cemetery of prisoners of the labor camps that built the Pechora Bridge and railway.
Tatiana Shevchenko
According to the recollections of his contemporaries, he lived a life that was beyond modest, meek, and humble; he was considered a fool for Christ during his lifetime—not everyone could endure the rigor of his life and the height of his spiritual feats.
This article talks about the life of Nikolai Ivanovich Egorov, the future Archimandrite Dmitry, who escaped the Solovki camps and entered Valaam Monastery as a novice in the 1930s. Later, he founded several sketes in America, where he reposed in 1992.
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century.
Archpriest Andrei Gavrilenko
Through the Roman State on the earthly level the minds were prepared for the Heavenly message.
Jennifer Nalewicki
Known as a "histamenon nomisma," this type of small coin was first introduced around A.D. 960.
Love for prayer and services was characteristic of Fr. Damaskin. The brethren were surprised at how he was always at church, even though he was so weak that he was about to fall apart.
Archpriest Simeon Petrov
It was a tough time. For any word or action in support of the Church you could be given a prison term.
After school the pioneer leader stood on my way and said, “When will you stop going to church?” offering me anti-Church lectures and booklets to read. I answered, “I go to church and will continue to do so!”
Nun Natalia (Kaverzneva)
“Kept the land unharmed” is not a figure of speech. His contemporaries remembered at least one such case down to the last detail. It concerns the invasion of Moscow by Khan Kazy-Girey in 1591.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
In the All-Russia Museum of decorative arts an exhibition was held, called, “The Artistic Inheritance of the Stroganovs. The Starting Point. Solvychegorsk”.
Maria Tobolova
His family was displeased that their son chose the “lowborn” Eudoxia, but Mikhail remained adamant.
Dmitry Safonov
The materials of the investigative case confirm that the Patriarch was not really going to switch to the New Calendar and was only waiting for a convenient moment for its official cancellation.
Matthew Namee
In 1744, a masonic lodge was founded in Constantinople, and a few years later, Ecumenical Patriarch Photius II condemned the movement in one or more patriarchal encyclicals.
Matthew Hartley
The last period of Normandy’s history relevant to this discussion falls in what can properly be called its Norman era.
Many women of outstanding holiness of life graced its soil, and their prayers help sustain it to this day.
Two monasteries of particular note, both from the area of Rouen, were especially important, and the saints who founded them rank among the greatest saints of which the West can boast.