RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Saint John, Bishop of the Goths, lived during the eighth century. The future saint was born in answer to the fervent prayer of his parents. From an early age, he lived a life of asceticism. The saint made a pilgrimage…
Commemorated on May 19 The holy Apostles Andrew the First-called and Simon the Canaanite first preached the Christian Faith in Georgia in the 1st century, but at the beginning of the 4th century most of the country was still pagan.…
Jonah (Atamansky) confessor Of Odessa Fr. Jonah Moiseyevich Atamansky was born in Odessa on September 14, 1852 (according to another source, 1855) into the family of Deacon Moses Florovich Atamansky, who served in the church of the Nativity of the…
Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and his fellow laborer Junia (1st c.). Venerable Euphrosyne (Princess Eudocia) of Moscow (1407). Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon at Chalcedon (298). St. Stephen, archbishop of Constantinople (893).Uncovering of the relics (1551) of Venerable Adrian,…
“Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink” (Jn. 4:6-7). The Samaritan…
St. Pachomius was born to pagan parents in Thebaid (Upper Egypt). There he received an excellent secular education. From his youth, he had a good character, and he was prudent and sensible. At the age of either 20 or 21,…
Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading Mt. Athos. In the 13th century…
On Wednesday of the fourth week we celebrate the Mid-Feast of Pentecost, i.e. half of the period from Pascha to Pentecost. This day we commemorate that event from the life of the Savior, when He on the Mid-feast of the…
Hieromartyr Ermogen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, was glorified into the rank of the saints on 12 May 1913. During the course of three centuries from generation to generation the memory of Patriarch Ermogen as a sainted bishop-martyr was passed…
May 10/23, 2021 How to treat the question of the time of the coming of the Antichrist, in what form the answers to it should be given and what information should serve as the basis for solving it – we…
