RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Bishop Maxim of Serpukhov FIRST CATACOMB BISHOP OF RUSSIA Commemorated July 6 (†1930) FROMLIVES OF THE NEW MARTYRS by Ivan Andreyev “Even if all the world shall enter into communion with the (heretical) Patriarch, I will not.” ST. MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR…
In the town of Bragil there lived a 65-year-old bachelor of chaste life, Paramon. His parents died early and he remained living all alone in their house for many years, leading a life of fasting and prayer. His house was not…
When the chekists asked them: What can you say about the accused?" one of them (probably the churchwarden) replied: "What can we say? They are holy people."
un Tikhona, in the world Haya Rozenblatt, was born into a Jewish family that settled in Orenburg in the 1880s.
by Dr. Vladimir Moss The Good Shepherd Bishop Basil, in the world Basil Ivanovich Zelentsov, was born in March, 1870 in the village of Zimarovo, Ranenburg uyezd, Ryazan province, the son of a protopriest. He graduated from the faculty of law…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Archbishop Procopius, in the world Peter Semyonovich Titov, was born on December 25, 1877 in Kuznetsk, Tomsk province, in the family of a protopriest of the cathedral church in Tomsk (according to another source, of a…
Archbishop Peter was born on February 18, 1878 in the village of Veshnyaki, near Moscow, the eldest son of a Moscow protopriest, Fr. Constantine Zverev (who later became the spiritual father of Grand-Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna)
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Protopriest Nicholas, of the Kirovograd diocese, was tortured to death in 1919. Once he was serving as a deacon in the St. Isaac Cathedral in St. Petersburg. At that time Tsar Nicholas was looking for a priest to…
from: Gregory Decapolite
