Igumen Damaskin (Orlovsky)
After the church was closed in 1937, Olga Vasilyevna was arrested on September 4, 1937, along with the priests, the psalmist, and the church warden. She was taken to Taganka Prison in Moscow and interrogated the same day.
Fr. James Guirguis
When I read this verse, I have to step back and ask if I have ever prayed like this for a single moment in my whole life.
Hieromonk Kirill (Popov)
While in comfort we often distort the image of God, but the genuine picture begins to change when we feel absolutely helpless and alone.
Natalia Vashchina
He was so inconvenient for the government, his personality was so significant, and his authority in Orthodox circles was so high that he had to be dealt with once and for all, without any possibility of continuing his activities or spreading his influence.
Tradition relates that the first time this icon was glorified was in the second half of the eighteenth century.
