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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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.…
The Secret Life of Abbess Antonina
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…
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…
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RTOC
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RTOC The Russian True Orthodox Church (its other name is the Catacomb Church) began its organized existence as a branch of the Local Russian Church at the end of the 1920s – beginning of the 1930s as a…
HOLY HIEROCONFESSOR ALEXANDER OF OMSK (+1977)
HOLY HIEROCONFESSOR ALEXANDER OF OMSK (+1977)Hieromonk Alexander, in the world Athanasius Vasilyevich Turuntayevskikh (he later changed his surname to Orlov), was born in 1878 in Vologda province in the family of Protopriest Basil, who served in one parish for 50…