Archpriest Sergei Tishkun
At the age of fifteen, Arsenios was vouchsafed a miraculous appearance of the Savior. After that event, Arsenios began to struggle even more zealously. Whenever someone wanted to marry him off to some lady, he strongly objected: “No, I will be a monk! I am not for this world.”
Konstantin Tsertsvadze
This was the answer! A living, instantaneous answer to my prayers from His Holiness. All my life I had dreamed of simply being near him, to at least catch a glimpse of him… And now he left me a guardian at his tomb!
Members of the Lithuanian Orthodox Church completed a traditional procession with the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God on July 4, ahead of the feast honoring the miracle-working image, which the Orthodox Church celebrates on July 9.
The saint glorified was Monk-Martyr Vladimir (Elizarov), a monk who was shot in 1930 after resisting the closure of a church in the Urals.
Hieromonk Philofei (Makharramov)
His life was very hard and even brutal. He wore clothing woven from camel’s hair, which was very rough and uncomfortable, ate locusts and wild honey, lived in the wilderness, and died a martyr’s death, suffering for the truth—the holy Forerunner was beheaded.
The Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of Sitka and Alaska is continuing its search for the holy relics of St. Jacob Netsvetov, and recent surveys of the historic churchyard site have brought the effort closer to identifying the saint’s grave.
The book, a rare edition of the Akathistnik printed in Romanian Cyrillic script, is held in the library of the Lavrishevo Monastery in the Novogrudok Diocese.
The bust was created according to a design by the noted Russian sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, whose works are well known both in Russia and abroad.
The belt of St. John was present at the church for the feast, drawing pilgrims from Moscow and other cities of Russia.
Romania’s Chamber of Deputies has voted to designate Archpriest Aurel Munteanu, an Orthodox priest killed in 1940, as a martyr and hero of the Romanian nation.
Thousands of faithful from across Romania attended the celebration.
Construction of the church, designed to accommodate 500 people, began in February 2023. The entire complex will include the church itself, a parish house, a Sunday school, a bell tower, and facilities for social activities.
Archpriest Valery Lukianov
There he stands—a righteous man of our own times, a true non-possessor, seeking no glory in the dignity of the episcopate, aspiring neither to honors nor to splendid vestments; a good shepherd, ever the first to set an example of loving care for his neighbor; an intercessor before God for mankind, through whom many received healing and the fulfillment of their hopes.
Tatiana Kennedy (Urusova)
Although he could be strict with us, we were drawn to Vladyka, and whenever we saw him walking through the city, we ran to him to receive his blessing.
The icon is celebrated as the patron of the OCA’s Diocese of the Midwest, as the original Tikhvin Icon spent 55 years at Holy Trinity Cathedral, shielded there from the Soviet government’s persecution of religion, before being sent back to its original home at the Tikhvin Monastery in Russia in 2004.
His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrose of Tver and Kashin consecrated a memorial cross near Sergiev Cemetery in Kashin on the evening of June 24, at the site where prisoners of the Kashin prison were shot and buried during the Great Terror of 1937–1938.
The service brought together hierarchs representing Orthodox Churches from across the world for the closing events of the 32nd “Pauleia” commemorations.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
St. Methodius carried logs for the monastery on foot across the river—hence the name, St. Nicholas-Peshnosha Monastery, which he founded. St. Methodius built the monastery on his own, “performing great labors”, as the prayer to the saint says.
Elena Butarova
He baptized Prince Vladimir in Chersonesos, instructed him in the faith. It was he who headed the Baptism of the Kievan people in the waters of the Dnieper River.
Elena Detinina
The monastic community on Konevets Island, which St. Arseny had built, gradually grew, and in 1398 Archbishop John of Novgorod blessed the establishment of a cenobitic monastery in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos there. Pilgrims flocked to it from everywhere. St. Arseny welcomed everyone with a meal and comforting conversation.
