RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com Father Nicholas was descended from an ancient family of princes who became poor and went over to the religious calling. His father, Deacon Michael Theoktistovich, lived in a border region of Akhtirka. He was a man of meek…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Blessed Xenia was born in 1848 into a peasant family in the village of Larionovskaya, Myshkin uyezd, Yaroslavl province. From a young age, she displayed great piety and the gift of prophecy. Fleeing marriage, at the age…
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…
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…
