Alexander Popov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 3
After series of gangster movies which he shot in great numbers in the 1990s and 2000s and which ensured his popularity among film fans and film critics, after his “black” comedy, “The Wolf of Wall Street”, which focused on the financial crisis, Martin Scorsese has returned to the theme of his scandalous religious tragedy “The Last Temptation of Christ” (which was not a success precisely because it involved blasphemy against Christ) by making a new and rather controversial movie on spiritual temptations, tests of faith, and search for God.
Igumen Nektary (Morozov), Nun Natalia (Aksamentova)
Rating: 9|Votes: 8
I remember batiushka’s own words of two years ago, when he still had the strength and desire to say at least something: “After all, a person needs nothing besides God’s mercy!”
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
When a team of investigators came to the forest looking for monks living there illegally, John was caught. Since he had no documents and admitted to being a sergeant in the Guard, he was brought to Saint Petersburg and taken to the empress Elizabeth. When he was taken to the empress, she asked, “Why did you desert my regiment?”
Saints Archippus, Philemon and Apphia, Apostles of the Seventy were students and companions of the holy Apostle Paul.
The Holy Confessors Eugene and Macarius were presbyters of the Antiochian Church. During the reign of Julian the Apostate (361-363) they were brought to the emperor for trial for their refusal to participate in pagan orgies.
