RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
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…
from: Gregory Decapolite
Fr. Seraphim Rose refers to St. Valentine as "a modern apostle of unadulterated Orthodoxy in a time of rising apostasy."
From the life of New Hieromartyr Michael Kostiuk of Kiev from catacombhistory.blogspot.com On not receiving false blessings (from the life of Saint Michael Kostiuk):During the German occupation of Kiev, during the Second World War, two bishops came to see the…
Protopresbyter John Yanishev Thank you to Brother Michael A. Points of Difference between the Orthodox and the Protestant religious teachings: 1) The Orthodox Church recognizes as a source of divine revelation of Truth not only Holy Scripture but also Holy…
HOLY HIEROMARTYR BENJAMIN OF PETROGRAD AND THOSE WITH HIM Commemorated July 31/August 14 source: orthochristian.com Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist…
