RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
ST. MARK OF EPHESUS AND THE COUNCIL OF FLORENCE Written by Vladimir Moss The Fall of Bulgaria in 1393 exposed Constantinople to the Turks, and the West summoned a large army under King Sigismund of Hungary to rescue the…
Abbess Magdalena of Lesna Convent. Recipient of St. Philaret’s Amazing Epistle. Abbess Magdalena, according to the world Nina Pavlovna Grabbe, was a Russian Orthodox nun and abbess. She was born on June 7, 1903 in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg. She…
St Paraskevi Memory celebrated July 26th Saint ParaskeviSt Paraskevi was born in Rome about 140 AD of Greek Christian parents. Her father, Agathon was rich and her mother, Politia, had many attributes, the greatest of which was her charitability. Agathon…
Letter To Abbess Magdalena A Letter from Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) to Abbess Magdalena (Countess Grabbe), Superior of the Lesna Convent in France* November 26 / December 9, 1979 Your Reverence 1 I am writing this letter en route — onboard…
SAINT MARY MAGDALENE Mary Magdalene was one of the myrrh-bearing women and “equal to the apostles”. She was born in the town of Magdala along the shore of Lake Gennesaret and was from the tribe of Issachar. She was tormented…
Protopresbyter Victor Melehov: Is There Grace in the Moscow Patriarchate? And Other Related Points of Confusion Generated by Soviet Propaganda Part I The purpose of this article is to address a number of related questions and topics regularly demonstrated to…
I. M. Andreyevsky (Ivan Mihailovich Andreyev): ‘Russia’s Catacomb Saints’ – Alexander Jacobson Alexander Jacobson NEW CONFESSOR OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL Commemorated September 8 (†1930) They hated Me without a cause. (John 15:25) In the year 1929, in…
THE RUSSIAN CHURCH AND THE NEW CALENDAR The calendar question is sometimes considered to have been a temptation only for the Greek-speaking Orthodox Churches. However, the Russian Church, too, had to struggle with it. And in view of…
Before the Face of Antichrist Archimandrite Konstantin Orthodox Life March 1970 That the world is leaving Christ and that it is united in this movement, embracing with it even all that was included in Christendom in all its manifestations, including…
