Maria Pukhova
And then something pricked my heart: it was St. Gabriel who reminded Mother about me! And I asked: “We need an icon of St. Gabriel for the church in the Kuban. If possible, please consecrate it on the relics of the venerable one: people are waiting!”
A relic of St. Anna, mother of the Theotokos, made its only East Coast stop at Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia over a three-day visit.
Priest Alexei Guglivaty
Blessed Afanasy Saiko was a faithful child of the Russian Orthodox Church during the twentieth-century persecutions.
More than 15,000 believers turned out for a cross procession through Irkutsk, carrying the relics of St. Spyridon of Tremythous and St. Innocent of Irkutsk through the Siberian city’s streets.
Svetlana Rybakova
The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is the oldest and most significant sacred relic in the life of the Russian people.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
On the first Sunday of September, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.
Monastics from across the Orthodox Church in Poland gathered at the Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery in Zwierki on September 3-4 for their annual meeting, this year focused on Elder Ephraim of Philotheou.
After Fr. Vladimir’s death, his image began appearing to the chief prison administrator. Wherever the man went and whatever he did, the aged priest stood before his eyes.
Natalia Vashchina
Very often, those who opposed sectarianism in the Russian Empire stood up to defend the Mother Church against the encroachments of the so-called Living Church followers (Renovationists) after the collapse of the great country.
Ilia II Street is one of Mtskheta’s main and busiest thoroughfares, following a section of the historical military road that runs through the city.
The rebuilding capped off a week of events called Light from Aleppo, organized by the Archdiocese of Aleppo and Dependencies.
St. Makary, known as the Apostle to the Altai, spent decades evangelizing the Altai region before later serving as Metropolitan of Moscow.
A new English translation of ascetical homilies attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian is now available from Patristic Nectar Publications.
This is a very special video, a digest of events and talks from the 20th anniversary of Father Seraphim's repose, held at St Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina CA in 2002.
The premiere of Reeves’s “Divine Liturgy for Small and Large Choirs” formed part of this broader commemoration of the late Archbishop, bringing together sacred music, liturgical worship, and the continuing artistic life of the Orthodox Church in America.
The acts of canonization of six Athonite saints were formally entered into the Codex of Patriarchal and Synodal Acts.
The locally canonized St. Olga of the Florovsky Convent was glorified in a service led by Metropolitan Onuphry on Monday.
Priest Leonid Bartkov
Every year at the end of August, the Orthodox world is immersed in the experience of an event that at first glance seems paradoxical. We celebrate death.
The right hand of St. Spyridon of Trimythous, one of the world’s most revered saints, was brought to Russia from Corfu on August 17.
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Her whole life was an example for all of us Christians; and Her Dormition is also an example for us, so that our passing into eternal life might be peaceful and calm, as if falling asleep.
