Sergei Seryubin
A few hours later, the door swings open, and besides Valentina, I see in the doorway… a priest! A classic Russian priest, of heroic build, in monastic clothing, with a piercing gaze and long raven-black hair.
Matthew Hartley
The last period of Normandy’s history relevant to this discussion falls in what can properly be called its Norman era.
Following the screening, a panel consisting of the Popovic, Fr. Paul Abernathy, and Prof. Dr. Terrence Lindvall spoke about the personal, pastoral, and artistic impact the film has had.
The conference gathered a number of speakers, including spiritual children of Frs. Seraphim, George, and Gregory, and others whose lives have been touched by the holy men and women of our times.
Tatiana Shorokhova
Ivan began to peer at its letters and read one word aloud, then the second one and became absorbed in reading. When he turned away, he looked around and didn’t see the old man.
Priest Alexander Resnikoff
Divine Truths remain eternal truths, and in the Glory of the Cross we find our own victory over sin, temptations, demons, and death.
Many women of outstanding holiness of life graced its soil, and their prayers help sustain it to this day.
According to the proclamation of Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the great 20th-century ascetic and wonderworker St. Paisios the Athonite is now the patron saint of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
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.
To this day, their deeds of prayer and ascetic self-denial inspire reverent awe in all who read of them with piety.
From early on and up nearly to the very end of its Orthodox history, the region of northwestern France now known as Normandy was graced with a veritable pleiad of holy hierarchs.
The time period under consideration in this article covers three major epochs which can be roughly divided according to the major power controlling the region at the time.
Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky)
The Nativity of the Virgin Mary is the day that heralds the nearing to humanity of the awaited Light, which would lead mankind out from the power of darkness.
Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saint.
Anastasia Vysotenko
In August 1937, the ascetic was denounced, arrested, and charged with “active counter-revolutionary activity and spreading rumors about the imminent collapse of the collective farm system and Soviet power.”
Alina Sergeichuk
The authorities did not kill Nikolai Grigorievich, who by then was already seventy-five years old. But the fate prepared for him was even harder than quick death.
Priest Roman Savchuk
The Lord appears in the thunderous brilliance of His glory, but He appears in order to hear the voice of a man, in order to answer him.
The faithful have passed down the stories of these two priests and they remain alive in the memory of Antioch because "their blood has attested that the Holy Spirit is in them and because though love they have transcended the barrier of the earthly body and become figures of light."
The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church absolutely rejects any attempts to downplay the number of Serbian victims at the Jasenovac death camp in Croatia during WWII.
On April 27, 1941, a German patrol of six officers and soldiers broke into the metropolitan’s office. One of the Nazis asked the martyr, “Are you the metropolitan who called for war against Germany? You deserve to die.”
