7/24/2022
Archpriest Andrew Phillips
Rating: 7.1|Votes: 10
We sometimes see the term ‘the Russian Saints’, only to find that these saints include St.Olga and St.Vladimir and many others who lived long before Moscow became established as a small town, let alone as the capital of a country now called ‘Russia’ The problem is that English has no translation for the word ‘Rus’.
Saint Olga, Equal of the Apostles, was the wife of the Kievan Great Prince Igor. The struggle of Christianity with paganism under Igor and Olga, who reigned after Oleg (+ 912), entered into a new phase.
Rating: 2|Votes: 2
Before long a Greek bishop came to Russia and started preaching and telling Russians about our Lord the Savior and the Holy wonders recorded in the Old and New Testaments. The Russians who heard him telling about the three young men surviving the blazing furnace of Babylon (Dan. 3), stopped him and said, "If we do not see a similar miracle, we will not believe you." The bishop said prayers and then placed the holy Gospel into the fire. The flames did not harm the Gospel, not even the cloth book markers were singed.
Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
Salvation comes to pass where there is a meeting of human striving for truth with the mercy of divine love.
Professor Larisa Marsheva, Ioann Scherbenko
As Patriarch Theophylact prophesied about her, St. Olga came to love the Light—the Lord Jesus Christ.
R.Nun Natalia (Kaverzneva)
But a domineering and cruel woman! How many people were killed indiscriminately without any particular personal culpability, how many completely innocent people perished in the most terrifying manner! What happened to this soul, and how did she convert to Christ?
St. John of Shanghai
Rating: 7|Votes: 1
St. Euphemia was tortured during the persecutions against Christians under Diocletian, and her death and suffering are commemorated on September 16/29. But today her memory is celebrated because of a miracle that happened during the Fourth Ecumenical Council. This council was supposed to decide who is right—those who believe that Christ was both God and man, the God-Man, or those who asserted that the divinity in Christ completely swallowed up His humanity, so that even His sufferings were only apparent.
