Martyrs Stefan, Melania And Those With Them Of Krasnodar
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."
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How Akimov can Help You be Orthodox!
The arrested Akimov was imprisoned for two months, but without being interrogated. At the end of March, he was summoned unexpectedly. The interrogator posed the usual question to him: “You, of course, are aware of why you were arrested?”
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell Concerning the falsification of the life of St. Valentine Sventitsky.
Fr. Seraphim Rose refers to St. Valentine as "a modern apostle of unadulterated Orthodoxy in a time of rising apostasy."
Not Even Safe in the Mountains.
Source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com From the life of Vladyka Peter Ladygin: After many years of suffering for the Faith, the holy bishop along with 25 members of theconfessing Church set off for central Asia. This was in 1944. They prepared themselves to…
In Inaccessible Places
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,…
What the Atheist Soviet Pilot Saw that Made Him a Believer
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…
What Was Hidden in Some Pits
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.…
Until the Final Farewell
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…
What Protodeacon Prokopius Couldn’t Do at Pascha.
Protodeacon Procopius was the choir director in the village of Kamyshinka, Bystro-Istoksky uyezd, Altai district, Siberia, and also served as a deacon in the Alexandrovskaya church in Biisk. At the end of 1928 or the beginning of 1929, he was…
Nun Afanasiya of Gomel (Belarus) Falls Asleep in the Lord – Great and Holy Friday of 2020
On Great and Holy Friday this year, the Nun Afanasiya of Gomel fell asleep in the Lord at 98 years of age. Mother Afanasiya (according to the world Anfisa) was married in her younger days to a devout man named…