Fomina Week
The week following Easter was called “Fomina” (named after the Apostle Thomas, who believed in the Resurrection of Christ after he felt the wounds of the Savior). In the folk calendar of the Slavs she...
The week following Easter was called “Fomina” (named after the Apostle Thomas, who believed in the Resurrection of Christ after he felt the wounds of the Savior). In the folk calendar of the Slavs she...
Metropolitan Varnava was ordained Bishop of Chuvash and Cheboksary by Patriarch Pimen in 1976. And since then he, the son and grandson of repressed Ryazan priests, has been a pupil...
It is often called the shrine of Kyiv Demeevka. Lesya Ukrainka was married in this church, Alexander Vertinsky sang in the choir, Valery Lobanovsky was baptized. Today one of the oldest churches in the capital...
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Recently, passions around religious issues have been heating up in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The official religions are Christianity and Islam, as well as many...
The surname Ridiger, which is rarely found in modern Russia (sometimes with the prefix von and the spelling Rüdiger, Riedinger, Rüdinger), had well-known services to the homeland. Hardworking and gifted...
Righteous Philaret the Merciful, Paphlagonian (†792) “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy” (Matthew 5:7) Righteous Philaret the Merciful was born in the city of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor (now...
Funerals are one of the most ancient Slavic rituals associated with seeing off a deceased person to another world. In the 8th-12th centuries, the funeral rite was called a feast and included not only a funeral...
Nicholas-do (lit. "Nicholas' Temple") - the Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, is one of the most famous attractions of Tokyo. No local guide will fail...
12/30/2014 In the host of God's saints, glorified by the Church, there is a considerable part of those who are usually not taken seriously - well, what important things can youths, and especially infants, say or decide?...
December 8 is the birthday of Archdeacon Andrei Mazur: he turns 89 years old. For almost 70 years now he has been serving the Church, which began in the Pochaev Lavra as a novice and singer in the Lavra choir,...
Sugdeyskaya (Sourozh diocese) is an ancient medieval diocese of Crimea of the Orthodox Church of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The department was located in the regional city of Sugdeya (Soldaya, Surozh) -...
The Japanese Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan. If you inquire about the Orthodox Church in Tokyo, the first thing they will tell you about is the Church of St. Nicholas (or Nikorai-do, as...
Material from Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia Mikhail Aleksandrovich Riediger (Estonian Mihail Rüdiger; May 15, St. Petersburg - May 9, Tallinn) - archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church,...
Life. Prayer. Troparion. Kontakion. Greatness. A story about the life, miracles and the coming to the glorious city of Pskov of our venerable father Savva the desert dweller, who founded a monastery in the name of...
; gematria - 142), in the Pentateuch - a soothsayer from the city of Pephor (Ptor) or Tafur, on the Upper Euphrates, called, according to the biblical narrative, by the king of Moab Balak to curse the Israelites,...