Following the service, the hierarchs visited the caves where the monastic fathers struggled and venerated the monastery’s sacred treasures.
Some are already calling Ilyas Safovich Safiullin a martyr, especially considering that he converted to Orthodoxy from Islam eight years ago.
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the great Holy Hierarch and Confessor Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, a beloved saint for the churches in both America and Russia.
His Eminence Metropolitan Andreas of Konitsa reposed in the Lord on Saturday, April 5.
A peaceful Orthodox monastery in rural Germany has found itself caught in the crossfire of a bitter feud among far-right extremists, leaving its monks living in fear.