Sunday of All the Saints Who Shown Forth in the Russian Land
June 18th OUR RICHES Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov) In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Our land is vast and seemingly…
Saints
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
May 13th St. Ignatius (Dimitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov in the world) was born on February 5, 1807, on his father’s estate in the village of Pokrov…
Saint Elias Muromets of Pechersk
January 1st Saint Elias Muromets of the Caves, nicknamed “Shoemaker” or “Cobbler,” was from the city of Murom. Popular legend identifies him with the famous…
St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco
July 2nd “ON THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, ST. JOHN PRAYED UNUSUALLY LONG IN THE ALTAR” Sergei Kalfov On July 2, 1966, Archbishop John (Maximovitch)…
Holy Greatmartyr George the Victory-Bearer
May 6th The Holy Great-martyr George the Victory-Bearer was a native of Cappadocia (a district in Asia Minor), and he grew up in a deeply…
Righteous John of Kronstadt
January 2nd On October 19, 1829, in the far north of Russia, a weak and sickly child, named John (Ioann), was born in the family…