RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Commemorated on May 6, October 28, August 28 Saint Job, Hegumen of Pochaev and Wonderworker (in the world named Ivan Zhelezo), was born in the mid-XV Century in Pokut’a in Galicia. At age 10 he came to the Transfiguration Ugornitsk…
Saint Job the Righteous Commemorated on May 6 Saint Job the Righteous lived about 2000-1500 years before the Birth of Christ, in Northern Arabia, in the country of Austidia in the land of Uz. His life and sufferings are recorded…
Sts. Mary and Martha, sisters of St. Lazarus (1st c.) Commemorated on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women and June 4 and Mary and Martha, with their brother Lazarus, were especially devoted disciples of our Lord; their story up to the…
Sunday May 16, 2021 / May 3, 2021 Third Sunday of Pascha: The Myrrh-bearing Women. Tone two. Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha).Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia (movable holiday on…
“And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they…
Saint Asaph (or Asa) first Bishop of the Welsh See of that name (second half of the sixth century). No Welsh life of him is extant, but local tradition points out the site of his ash tree, his church, his well, and…
Saint Paphnutius of Borovsk was born in 1394 in the village of Kudinovo, not far from Borovsk, and at Baptism he was named Parphenius. His father John was the son of a baptized Tatar, a “baskak” (“tax-collector”) named Martin, and…
Commemorated on May 1 and December 9 The Icon of the Mother of God, named “Unexpected Joy” (Nechayannaya Radost’), is written thus: in a room, upwards is an icon of the Mother of God and beneath it a youth kneeling…
Commemorated on May 1 and on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women In 1166 a daughter, Tamar, was born to King George III (1155–1184) and Queen Burdukhan of Georgia. The king proclaimed that he would share the throne with his daughter…
