Thousands of Orthodox Christians joined in an annual procession on the Greek island of Tinos on July 23.
The relics, kept at the Sofia Theological Seminary, were taken to Romania by request of the Pantocrator Monastery in Drăgănești-Vlașca, Teleorman County, in honor of the monastery’s patronal feast of St. Mary Magdalene.
Locals are talking about how a miracle took place in their village of Voden in south-central Bulgaria.
Orthodox musicians and artists have the opportunity to come to the monastery to live and study music and iconography taught by professional musicians and esteemed iconographers.
On Sunday, July 21, celebrations in honor of the 400th anniversary of the glorification of the wonderworking Vyazniki Kazan Icon of the Mother of God were held in the Murom Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Over 90 youth from 25 countries participated in “Suprasl 2024: A World Gathering of Orthodox Youth,” held at the Suprasl Academy at the Annunciation Monastery between 30 June -8 July 2024.
Sergei Shmel
This ascetic holds a special place among ancient Russian saints and is traditionally revered as the “chief of all Russian monks” because the monastery he founded on the hills of Kiev served as a center and school of ancient Russian monasticism and enlightenment for all of Rus’, for many centuries.
Over the decades, the buildings at New Skete on Mt. Athos, where the saint spent the last years of his life and where he was buried, have deteriorated, and the cover of his tomb had cracked into several pieces.
Greek police are reportedly preparing to storm Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos to evict its 118 resident monks.
St. Raphael was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated in America, where he faithfully served the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church under St. Tikhon, the future Patriarch of Moscow, together with a number of other saints.
The Ekaterinburg Diocese is celebrating its annual Royal Days in honor of the holy Royal Martyrs, Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Nun Barbara, and others.
The momentous anniversary was celebrated from Wednesday July 10 through Sunday July 14, with daily Liturgies, Vigils, and professions with St. Demetrius’ relics.
Today, St. Paisios is a greatly beloved, universally venerated saint, with churches dedicated to him throughout the Orthodox world.
Svetlana Rybakova
Mother Anna was, as they say now, an icon of her age. As a little girl, she went to the funeral of Patriarch St. Tikhon with her father.
The height of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul will be 42 meters (about 141 feet), with a capacity of one thousand people.
The Eletsky Monastery, a significant historical and architectural monument, includes the Dormition Cathedral, various cells, and the monastery walls with gates.
In folk tradition, this feast is referred to as the Tenth Friday, and it is from “diesiatoj piatnicy” that the most popular name for this feast, Piatieńka derives.
The place of worship was established on the site of an older monastery from the first Christian millennium, and it was donated to the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western Europe in 2009.
The roundtable was attended by abbots and abbesses of stavropegial monasteries and monastic communities of the Moscow Metropolitanate.
The rite of consecration for the church’s cornerstone, located at the corner of Bucharest Street and Kozlovsky Lane, was led by Metropolitan Barsanuphius of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, according to the website of the St. Petersburg Metropolis.