The memory of St. Euphrosyne is being celebrated today with a primatial Divine Liturgy in the monastery that she founded.
The world-renowned Holy Trinity Icon painted by St. Andrei Rublev in the 15th century arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Saturday, in time for the feast of Pentecost.
It is by the Holy Spirit that “the prophets, divine Apostles, and martyrs are crowned.” He is the source of life and of sanctification.
Archpriest Viacheslav Reznikov
So, the Holy Spirit descended only on one single day, in one single place.
His relics were found to be incorrupt in 1997, and since then, many miraculous healings have been attributed to him.
It was from this incident that the icon of the Mother of God became renowned as such a remarkable image and received the title “Gerondissa.”
The anniversary was festively celebrated beginning on May 29 in Penjikent, Tajikistan, where the Holy Hierarch was consecrated in 1923.
St. Dmitry was shot and killed by the Red Army in September 1918.
Olga Sokirkina
St. Euphrosyne became the only woman representative of Muscovy to be ranked among the saints.
Authorities estimate that about 20,000 people visited the monastery throughout the day.
St. Tikhon’s Monastery and Theological Seminary in Waymart, Pennsylvania, are in the midst of their 119th annual Memorial Day Pilgrimage.
Alexandra Gripas
Fr. Maxim will be remembered not as someone who condemned, criticized, or lectured, but as someone who showed love and compassion and offered a helping hand to women who found themselves in a difficult situation.
More than 100,000 Orthodox faithful came out for the annual procession on the feast of the Ascension in Belgrade yesterday.
Hieromartyr Gregory Zlatorunsky was canonized by decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on August 25, 2022, and on Monday, May 22, his canonization was liturgically celebrated in Stavropol Krai.
St. John of Kronstadt
So, the Lord ascended from us to heaven—in order to open the doors of heaven to us—for an unhindered entrance there.
The Serbian Orthodox Church festively celebrated the canonization of a new saint on Sunday, May 21.
The day of the leavetaking of Pascha was the last day in the life of Jesus Christ on earth, when the risen Lord appeared to His disciples in order to say His final words about the Kingdom of Heaven.
Archpriest Sergei Pravdoliubov
Vasily Ivanovich began to call for help—but there were no sounds except for some quiet wheezing. No one could hear him. It was late afternoon, and there was no one on the river bank.
After her 95 years of radiant life on earth, she was now in the arms of the Lord whom she fervently loved since childhood and whom she followed with Apostolic-like love and self denial.
The tomos of canonization was read out by His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploieşteanu, vicar to the Patriarch, then the troparion to St. Neofit was sung while the hierarchs, clergy, and people venerated icons of the new saint.
