Sfantul Ioan Maximovici, episcop de Shanghai si de San Francisco, s-a nascut in data de 4 iunie 1896, in satul Adamovka, din regiunea Harkov, Rusia, si a trecut la cele vesnice in ziua de 2 iulie 1966, in orasul Seattle, dupa savarsirea Sfintei Liturghii. Sfantul Ioan Maximovici a fost canonizat in anul 1994, de Biserica …
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“The Apostle of Christ, the beloved of God, hurries to deliver the unrepentant people. That he receives you when you fall to Him, the One who received you when you rested on his comb; And the cloud of the pagans which he hath laid upon us to scatter him, asking us for new peace and …
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Every year, on the first Friday after Easter, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Spring of Healing. It is a feast dedicated to the Mother of God, designed to portray the role of the Virgin Mary in the work of salvation of men. The name of the Source of Healing reminds of a series of miracles …
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A modern miracle took place in the small Peloponnesian town of Filiatra in 1943, during the dark days of the occupation of Greece by the Germans. This miracle has moved and continues to move, to this day, not only the people of Filiatra but also the people of all Greece.From the German Headquarters in Tripoli, …
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Saint Theodosius the Great lived during the fifth-sixth centuries, and was the founder of cenobitic monasticism. He was born in Cappadocia of pious parents. Endowed with a splendid voice, he zealously toiled at church reading and singing. Saint Theodosius prayed fervently that the Lord would guide him on the way to salvation. In his early …
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Venerable Sophrony Sakharov was the one who edited and printed the writings of St. Siluan Athonite and can measure only one who reached this very special spiritual father of 20th century. Dweller First Holy Mountain Athos and then to Britain, where he founded the famous monastery “St. John the Baptist” in Essex, Reverend Sophrony Sakharov …
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The relics of St. Cyprian, defender of spells and curses. We pass it making us cross, but without knowing that the walls coated in paintings of archangels and saints, the Church still Zlatari hide a treasure and precious: hand St. Cyprian, the great patron of spells and curses. Caught in the vise of hulking blocks, …
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In Phrygia, not far from the city of Hieropolis, in a place called Cheretopos, there was a church named for the Archangel Michael, built over a miraculous spring. This church was built by a certain inhabitant of the city of Laodicia in gratitude to God for healing his mute daughter. The holy Chief Commander Michael …
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