Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Although she grew up in an atheistic Jewish family, from the age of six she felt drawn to the Orthodox faith and was baptized in 1941.
Anastasia Lutcenko
The more noise fills our lives, the more important it becomes to recover the ability to hear silence. It is in silence that we most often encounter God.
Alexander Kuznetsov
Surprisingly, the path of Soviet hippies to the Church often began with the image of the ânice Jesusâ brought from the West through records, samizdat magazines, and rare books.
Viktor Grigoryevich Bichikov
We planted our own garden; we tied ropes to the plow, and mostly women pulled it instead of horses, while we children planted the potatoes.
Archimandrite Zosima (Gorshunov)
The word âZnamennyâ means âsign.â The Znamenny Icon, the Znamenny churchâwhat kind of signs are these? I think theyâre signs of Godâs mercy, His boundless salvific love for us. Most important is to notice, recognize, and follow these signs.
Everyone wanted to be baptized then. There was a massive demand for the Orthodox faith. I remember, as soon as weâd arrive in some remote village, explain to the village council who we were and why weâd come, and make an announcement, all the people would come running right away.
Georgy Ogorodnikov
Metropolitan Chrysanthus studied Russian, made use of the rich library of the main seminary, and became acquainted with the history of Russia and its church structure
For eleven years the hierarch fearlessly defended the Orthodox flock from the caprice of the local pasha and the greed of Ottoman officials.
Archdeacon Vladimir Vasilik
There was a moment when a German officer slid by right next to him without noticing the prisoner of war. On his last legs, the escapee made it to the nearest house and collapsed at the door. And another miracle happened: They did not give him up, even though the Germans shot people for hiding prisoners of war.
Deacon Dionisy Akhalashvili
From the very heart of death, from the depths of this veritable hell on earth, carried the words, âChrist is Risen!â And in reply came the shout, âIn Truth He is Risen!â
Archimandrite Jerome (Testin)
The greatest sacrifice, the sacrifice of love, was made here and; owing to it, we can live today.
Alexander Mosyakin
Lenin, being a faithful disciple of Marx and Engels, like them hated the Russian Empire and was an inveterate Russophobe.
Marx invented a certain special âSlavic raceâ forming around the âRussian race,â striving for world domination, which opposes the civilized European peoples (âGermano-Romanic raceâ) and with which Europe must wage merciless war.
Medieval wall paintings long hidden beneath plaster and limewash are reappearing inside the Byzantine monastery church of Agios Nikolaos (Saint Nicholas) in Mesopotamos, Albania, after conservators uncovered previously unknown frescoes during a continuing restoration programme.
âRuthless struggle not for life, but to death with the Slavdom treacherous to the revolutionâĶ âexterminatory war and unrestrained terror.â
Gabriel Augustine Galeano
Contemporaries described him as a man who âpersonified love, peace, delicacy, patience and goodwill towards all people.â
Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, Olesya Nikolaeva
In fact, liberal politicians, writers and journalists acted, without fully realizing it, in the role of instigators of terrorism and participants in the âbig lieâ project.
Svetlana Rybakova
Praying in front of the icon of the Mother of God, âQuick to Hearââthe one that the Russian hermit had donated to the NetherlandsâFr. Dionysius made a vow: if the Lord would rescue him and give him the opportunity to organize a parish or build a church someday, he would have it dedicated to the Icon of the Mother of God, âQuick to Hearâ.
Vadim Prokopenkov
Several episodes of his clairvoyance a few days before the tragedy were also reported. According to eyewitness recollections, on the eve of the battle, Father Anthony told acquaintances: âWhy should my things drown in the sea? Take them and keep them.â
Matthew Namee
If you know a little bit about church history, you can probably spot some immediate problems with this text.
