The Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on the Venetian Lagoon island of Torcello is famed for its spectacular 11th century mosaics, rivalling those in its much larger neighbor, St Mark’s Basilica in Venice.
Archpriest George Kurtov
I very acutely felt then that what the Church says through the mouths of our righteous ones is all true.
Metropolitan John (Wendland)
This is a letter to His Holiness Patriarch Alexei (Simansky) of Moscow and All Russia from Metropolitan John (Vendland) of New York and the Aleutian Islands, who was leading the American Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate at that time.
Documents from his personal archive are particularly valuable historical documents on the history of the Russian Church and national history of the 19th-20th centuries.
Paul Gilbert
Historians and media sources continue to rehash revolutionary myths and slander about the Emperor Nicholas II. Meanwhile, many former revolutionaries and liberals who slandered the Tsar repented in the years which followed the 1917 Revolution.