RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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…
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.…
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…
Protopriest M. Donetsky relates that in the foothills of the Caucasus, not far from Sochi, there was a state dairy farm. It was exemplary. Much was said and written about the farm in the local newspapers, as about one of…
From the life of Saint Antonina the Abbess: catacombhistory.blogspot.com An Abbess of the Catacomb Church during Soviet times. When her time of sentence was over, a group of twelve nuns formed a monastic community under her direction and went to…
Bishop Michael (Yershov) was born on September 17, 1911 (or October 12), in the village of Mamykovo in Kazan province, in a peasant family. His father, whose name was Basil, had taken part in the Russo-Japanese War, the First World…
THE CATACOMB CHURCH IN THE SOVIET UNION by Ivan Andreyev The All-Russian Church Council in Moscow in 1917-1918 gave the Russian Orthodox Church a firm canonical basis for the life of the Christian Church in an anti-Christian state. Patriarch Tikhon…
Letter from a Catacomb Bishop circa 1948 Provided by Brother Michael … Blessed are they who thirst and hunger after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. …The truth is to be found only in Christ’s holy Church. In today’s evil…
Today, July 16/29, is the anniversary of the notorious declaration of Metropolitan Sergius of Nizhni-Novogord in 1927, which created the largest schism in Church history since the Roman Catholic schism of 1054 and under whose shadow the whole life of…
