At 98 years of the Great Union in Romania can be found only three albums with photos documentary made on December 1, 1918 at the Grand National Assembly of Alba Iulia. The only man who immortalized the event, Samoilă Mârza (1886-1967), has assembled those historical frames in an album titled Great Assembly of Alba Iulia …

Saturday, December 3, at 6 pm, on the eve of the Feast of St. Nicholas, we will celebrate the Vespers, attended also by several priests from Toronto and surrounding areas. We will enjoy spiritually worship of Relics and the Cross of Saint Apostle Andrew, as well as those of Saint Healer Panteleimon. After the service …

On the condition of man. People, until they come to know something greater, are satisfied with the little that they have. Man is like a village rooster who lives in a small enclosure with few people and farm animals about, who knows his ten hens and is content with this life, because he knows no …

Schema-monk Siluan of Mt. Athos (his secular name was Semyon Ivanovich Antonov) was born in 1866 in the village of Shov, Lebedinsk region of the Tambov district of Russia. He first arrived on Mt. Athos in 1892, was tonsured in 1896 and took the vows of the schema in 1911. His period of obedience was …

The Transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of the Icon of our Lord Jesus Christ Not-Made-by-Hands occurred in the year 944. Eusebius, in his HISTORY OF THE CHURCH (I:13), relates that when the Savior was preaching, Abgar ruled in Edessa. He was stricken all over his body with leprosy. Reports of the great miracles worked by …

Mamre is where, according to the testimony of Holy Scripture, Holy Trinity was revealed Law Abraham, in the face of three young travelers. Abraham’s Oak, located in the Valley of Mamre, lies at a distance of 2-3 kilometers southwest of Mamre, in Hebron region, the land of Canaan. Hebron is one of the holy places, …

The Holy Emperor Constantine founded on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium and inaugurated with great fanfare on May 11, 330, Constantinople – “New Rome” became the imperial capital and the center of the Orthodox world. Phanar district of Istanbul hosts 16-17 centuries, administrative headquarters and Patriarchal Cathedral “St. George the Great …