RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com In 1951 V.K. wrote: “In the inaccessible parts of the Caucasus ridge, in a huge basin protected on allsides by a wall of mountains, the tops of which were covered with snow for ten months of the year,…
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…
