

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe


Martyrs Stefan, Melania And Those With Them Of Krasnodar
When the chekists asked them: What can you say about the accused?" one of them (probably the churchwarden) replied: "What can we say? They are holy people."

Fintán of Taghmon- Feast Day Today October 21
Not to be confused with (Saint Fintan of Clonenagh) Saint Fintán, or Munnu (died 635) is one of the saints of Ireland and Britain who served in Ireland and Scotland being the founder and abbot of the abbey at Teach-Mhunn – The House…

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CHANGE TO THE NEW CALENDAR
The adoption of the new calendar by the Church of Greece in 1924 came at a very vulnerable time for the Orthodox Church as a whole.

HOLY NUN-MARTYR TIKHONA OF ORENBURG
un Tikhona, in the world Haya Rozenblatt, was born into a Jewish family that settled in Orenburg in the 1880s.

Did you Realize that Anglican Retired Bishop Charles Gore was brought in to Constantinople to Encourage the Calendar Change?
"For us in the West, it would be spiritual satisfaction to find ourselves in the position to celebrate together the great Christian feasts of the Nativity, Resurrection, and Pentecost...the second step would be completed by the CALENDAR MATTER which would bring us simultaneous celebration of the feasts."

HIEROMARTYR BASIL, BISHOP OF PRILUKY and Those with Him
by Dr. Vladimir Moss The Good Shepherd Bishop Basil, in the world Basil Ivanovich Zelentsov, was born in March, 1870 in the village of Zimarovo, Ranenburg uyezd, Ryazan province, the son of a protopriest. He graduated from the faculty of law…

HIEROMARTYR PROCOPIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF ODESSA AND KHERSON AND THOSE WITH HIM
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Archbishop Procopius, in the world Peter Semyonovich Titov, was born on December 25, 1877 in Kuznetsk, Tomsk province, in the family of a protopriest of the cathedral church in Tomsk (according to another source, of a…


HIEROMARTYR PETER, ARCHBISHOP OF VORONEZH and Those with Him
Archbishop Peter was born on February 18, 1878 in the village of Veshnyaki, near Moscow, the eldest son of a Moscow protopriest, Fr. Constantine Zverev (who later became the spiritual father of Grand-Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna)