Gregory Sobolev
A wealthy German merchant, St. Procopius came to trade in Novgorod the Great. He was amazed that the grandeur of the churches and the piety of the people, and abandoned his former faith, homeland, and wealth, considering the true faith and importance of the spiritual life to be worth more than all these. But the path of his service would not be an easy one…
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Psalm 137 above, a favorite of Christians for expressing lament and exile as we sojourn through this world, also contains verses of such vile violence that some will not read them. Even knowing that the literal interpretation was not the most common reading among ancient church luminaries, doesn’t always make it easy for the modern reader to apprehend how to pray some of these verses.
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Saint Euphrosyne, in the world Eudokia, was the daughter of the Suzdal prince Demetrius Constantovich (+ 1383), and from 1367 was the wife of the Moscow Great Prince Demetrius of the Don. After raising five sons (a sixth died in infancy), the princess was tonsured as a nun with the name Euphrosyne.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
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On July 6, 2016, president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed anti-terrorism legislature. In the western press and Christian media, all hell broke loose.