RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
By Dr. Vladimir Moss Great Prince Sergius Alexandrovich was born in 1857, the son of Tsar Alexander II and the brother of Tsar Alexander III. He was a very religious and highly cultured man who loved reading and music. Shy…
