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RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Month July 2020
A Great Helper on July 17th According to the Orthodox Calendar
The Life of the Great-Martyr Marina Marina was born in Southern Anatolia, specifically from Pisidia in Antioch, at the end of the third century during the reign of Claudius II (268-270). She was the only daughter of noble pagan parents.…
What You Didn’t Know About St. Ambrose of Milan’s Older Sister
Marcellina was born in Trier, Gaul around the year 330 into a Roman Christian family. Her father served as Praetorian prefect of Gaul. The sister of Ambrose of Milan, she was older than her two brothers. About the year 354 Ambrosius, their father…
What the Atheist Soviet Pilot Saw that Made Him a Believer
After the Second World War, there circulated in Russian émigré circles a brochure entitled, “Why I also believe in God”. In it, the author, originally an atheist pilot, describes how he was commissioned to track down a group of monks…
Learn the Mystery that the Austrian Former Prisoner of War Witnessed
An Austrian former prisoner of war witnessed that in 1948 the Soviet “authorities” discovered a secret women’s monastery 200 kilometers from the prisoner of war camp in the forests of Siberia, not far from the Arctic circle. A sentry found…
With Whom Will Archbishop Theophan of Poltava Be Left?
Thank you to Brother Michael Archbishop Theophan’s of Poltava meeting with a group of modernist clergy and liberal professors, who came to the Moscow All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918, was a remarkable event. Vladika himself often liked to recall the…
Here’s What No One is Telling You about the True Orthodox Being So Few.
An Ancient Greek maxim says that “the good is not in the many”. We feel the pressure of living in apocalyptic times when the truth is not of importance to many and Faith for most people is just attending whatever…
What Was Hidden in Some Pits
Hieromonk Anthony from Tolshevsky monastery served secretly from one house to another. Hetonsured many into monasticism. In 1942 he and three monks dug out an underground hut in a shed (in Uglyanka) and there constructed a church with an altar.…
Sermon on the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: the Paralytic.
By Archbishop Andrei Rymarenko, spiritual father of Saint Philaret the Confessor of ROCOR.
Thank you, Brother Michael! The Gospel reading of last Sunday told us how the Gadarenes went out to meet Jesus and how they asked Him to “depart out of their coasts.” And this happened because all of them were infected…
Until the Final Farewell
During the persecution of the Church and its clergy, in 1923 there came to the Caucasus a holy recluse, Elder Macarius. He appeared in the territory of Vladikavkaz, in a deserted place 20 miles from a small railroad station by…