June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, during which the entire Church of Greece celebrates its founder, the Holy Apostle Paul.
The completed icon, which has been housed at the OCA Chancery offices in Springfield, Virginia, since its completion earlier this year, features all saints of North America listed in the Orthodox Church in America’s diptychs.
Last year, the Romanian Church canonized 16 male martyrs, confessors, and ascetics of the 20th century, and 2026 has already been designated as the Commemorative Year of Holy Women (Myrrh-bearers, Martyrs, ascetics, wives, and mothers).
It has been five days since Fr. Rostislav Kalinovsky, a priest of the Kamianka Diocese of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s, has made any contact with his family after he was seized by representatives of the local military enlistment office (TCC).
On Saturday, June 28, the glorification of the recently discovered relics of St. Maxim of Totma, a 17th-century priest and fool-for-Christ, was celebrated at the St. Dimitry of Priluki Monastery in the Vologda Province.