RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
By Dr. Vladimir Moss Our holy Father Edbert became bishop of Lindisfarne in 688. A very learned and generous man, he gave a tenth of his livestock, grain, fruit, and clothing to the poor every year. Every year, like his…
Commemorated on May 7 The holy New Martyr Pachomius was from Little Russia, and was captured by Moslem Tatars who made him a slave. He was taken to Usaki, near the ancient city of Philadelphia in Asia Minor, where he was…
Introduction and Compilation by Brother Michael Introduction Right before our baptism, the servant of God performing the mystery of Baptism, performs an exorcism on us, satan is expelled from us, and bound by the power of Christ our God, he…
St. Ignaty wrote: “I spent my entire life in sickness and sorrows, but without sorrows, how can one be saved? Illness is sent by God in place of and to make up for the deficiency of our struggles. I see that my…
Saint Endelienta (also Endelient, Edellienta, or Endellion) was a Cornish saint of the 5th and 6th centuries. She is believed to be a daughter of the Welsh King Brychan, and a native of South Wales who traveled to North Cornwall to join her siblings in converting the locals…
Richarius (or in French, Riquier) was born about the year 560 in a village then known as Centula (Pontheiu) in today’s North-West France. He fell asleep in the Lord in peace on April 26, 645 in Crecy, France. He was a Frankish hermit, monk,…
SAINT MELLITUS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Our holy Father Mellitus was a Roman monk, who in 601 was sent by St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome, to serve as a missionary in England, helping St. Augustine of Canterbury. Having consolidated…
Kontakion 1 Unto thee, O champion leader, and victorious Saint George, we offer a hymn of praise as unto our intercessor and speedy helper. Do thou, holy Great Martyr, as one who hath boldness before the Lord, deliver us from…
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…
