The 33.5m-tall (110ft) cross will stand atop Mount Stolovi, near the town of Kraljevo, and will be visible from far and wide in Serbia. Weighing a hefty 40 tonnes, it will be lit up at night by solar power or a small wind turbine.
The archaeologists excavating the Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress Kastritsi, which is located in the Euxinograd Residence of the Bulgarian government near the Black Sea city of Varna, have discovered medieval Christian artifacts as well as a treasure of Bulgarian and Ottoman coins.
During the entire two days that the icons were in the Dormition Kiev Caves Lavra, there was a permanent influx of pilgrims to this most important monastery in the Ukraine. The faithful flocked to the wonderworking icons of Holy Theotokos that had been brought to Kiev for celebration of the Day of Baptism of Russia and the feast-day of the Holy Prince Vladimir.
On July 27, 2015, Bishop Nathaniel of Amantia, who came to Moscow as a member of the delegation of the Albanian Orthodox Church for the celebrations dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of repose of the Holy Prince Vladimir, visited the Moscow Stavropegic Convent in honor of the Conception of the Virgin Mary by St. Anne.
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St. Peterburg’s Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library recently accepted a considerable collection of declassified documents from the Tobolsk State Archives. The 239 documents dating from 1914-1916 reveal the disorder in the Secret Service and other intelligence departments of the time. Of especial interest is the information on the secret surveillance of Rasputin beginning in the summer of 1915, by the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the suite of His Majesty, Major-General Vladimir Dzhunkovsky. Two secret agents were assigned to tail Grigori Rasputin, reporting on all his movements and on those who visited him.