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The eight-week visitation will bring the wonderworking icon to more than 40 locations across Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Gibraltar, Monaco, Italy, England, Wales, Ireland, and Northern Ireland.
The reliquary visited 100 cities over 190 days, traveling more than 34,000 miles by automobile and airplane.
The Orthodox Church in America’s bishop of New York and New Jersey has submitted documents calling for an investigation into the matter of canonizing Metropolitan Leonty, the revered primate of the North American Metropolia from 1950 until his repose in 1965.
More than 30,000 faithful gathered for the Divine Liturgy yesterday for the feast of St. Parascheva of Iași, celebrated by a synaxis of 27 hierarchs from four Local Orthodox Churches. The service was held on a specially prepared podium near the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, Romania.
Priest Alexei Veretelnikov
Great-Martyr Theodore Gavras became a hero not only of Greek but also of Turkish folklore, where he was referred to as a “noble and brave foe.”
An archaeological expedition from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University and Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism discovered the tomb beneath the ruins of the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in the fortress-city of Ardanuç.
The feast of St. Parascheva, October 14, is one of the largest religious events in Romania, drawing pilgrims from throughout Romania and beyond over the days leading up to her feast.
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
Oh, All-merciful Queen and Theotokos! Help us who are weak, feeble, foolish, defiled, incorrigible, sorrowful, despondent, grief-stricken, and despairing, and cover us from every evil with Thy honorable omophorion! Grant us the spirit of prayer!
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
The Protecting Veil is an image of maternal love.
Fr. John Chakos
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Troy, Michigan, held a retreat over the weekend of October 4–6, featuring talks by Protopresbyter John Chakos, who personally knew the highly venerated Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona.
The relics of St. Gregory Palamas have left Greece for the first time in history, brought to Iași, Romania, for the annual St. Parascheva pilgrimage. A delegation from Thessaloniki, led by Metropolitan Philotheos of Thessaloniki, brought the relics to Iași on Saturday night.
Irina Akhundova
From my own experience, I have been convinced how quickly he hastens to help and gives what each needs for the salvation of the soul.
Elena Detinina
Fr. Sabbatius was left alone on Solovetsky Island, but loneliness did not bother him at all, because he had always aspired to eremitic life. He had fulfilled his task as a righteous man, paving the thorny path to Solovki for his followers.
This was the first time that Macedonian hierarchs served with the Russian primate since the Russian Orthodox Church recognized the autocephaly of the Macedonian Church in August 2022.
Hierarchs from the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia gathered at Mileševa Monastery on October 6-7, to celebrate multiple commemorations, including the 850th anniversary of the birth of St. Sava, the first Archbishop of Serbia and spiritual father of the Serbian Church.
The newly canonized are St. Silvester, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, and St. Chrysostomos (Papasarantopoulos).
Priest Stakhiy Trufanov
Fr. Peter became a faithful assistant to His Grace Tikhon during the American period of his ministry.
Hieromonk Agafangel (Davlatov)
What unites and distinguishes these two men? It is their love—love for God, love for people, love for the Church and for the whole universe.
Galina Gulichkina
N.P. Rozanov, a professor at the Moscow Theological Seminary, recalled Metropolitan Innocent:“The new metropolitan, himself having come from the ranks of parish clergy, understood their needs. He did not demand absolute silence from the clergy when he spoke and would willingly engage them in conversation—even occasionally joking."
The saint’s life path was one of ceaseless and arduous labor—of his nearly eighty-two years of life, forty-five were spent on the road, preaching the Word of God to the peoples of the Far North of Russia, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.