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Showing posts with label New Martyrs of Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Martyrs of Russia. Show all posts
November 12, 2022

Holy Hieromartyr Alexander Adrianov (+ 1918)

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St. Alexander Adrianov (Feast Day - November 12) Father Alexander Adrianov was born in 1858 in the district of Nizhneturinsky (now the city ...
May 26, 2022

Holy 104 Martyrs of Cherkasy (+ 1937-38)

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Holy 104 Martyrs of Cherkasy (Feast Day - May 26) In the year 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized one hundred and four priests and m...
January 26, 2022

Venerable Martyr Maria of Gatchina (+ 1932)

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By I. M. Andreyev In the town of Gatchina, some thirty miles from Petrograd, there lived before the revolution the nun Maria, in the world L...
December 28, 2021

Holy Hieromartyr Alexander Tsitseronov, Known as Cicero (+ 1938)

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St. Alexander Tsitseronov (Feast Day - December 28) Alexander Tsitseronov was born on August 15, 1893 in the village of Popadyino, of the Mi...
November 12, 2021

The Nuns of Shamordino, Prisoners of the Gulags of Solovki and Vorkutlag

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The sisterhood of Shamordino Convent, around 30 in number, were imprisoned in 1923 at the closure of the convent by the Soviet authorities, ...
August 13, 2021

Holy Martyr Maxim Rumyantsev the Fool for Christ (+ 1928)

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St. Maxim Rumyantsev (Feast Day - August 13) By Hegumen Damaskin (Orlovsky) Maxim Ivanovich Rumyantsev was born in the mid-fifties of the 19...
July 29, 2021

Holy Confessor Matrona Belyakova of Anemnyasevo (+ 1936)

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St. Matrona of Anemnyasevo (Feast Day - July 29) Matrona was born on November 6, 1864 in the village of Anemnyasevo, of the Ryazan province,...
April 14, 2021

Holy Hiero-Confessor Alexander Orlov (+ 1941)

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St. Alexander Orlov (Feast Day - April 14); photo taken in 1933 Alexander Vasilyevich Orlov was born in 1878 in the village of Makkoveevo (n...
April 8, 2021

Theophany During the Cholera Epidemic of 1909 in St. Petersburg

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The Holy Hieromartyr Cyril (Smirnov) of Kazan was the Metropolitan of the Eparchy of Kazan in Russia from 1918 to 1922. Designated by Patria...
February 18, 2021

The "Good Friday" of Russian Monasticism (17-18 February 1932)

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  A special place in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century is occupied by the event, which was named the ...
January 20, 2021

The Death-Bed Confession of a Persecutor of Christians

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    By Metropolitan Nektarios of Argolidos Let me end with an incident told to me in Odessa a few years ago and published in the book In th...
November 14, 2020

Holy New Hieromartyr Dimitri (Benevolensky) of Tver (+ 1937)

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  St. Dimitri Benevolensky (Feast Day - November 14)   Dimitri Mikhailovich Benevolensky was born on October 10, 1883 in Vishny Volochyok, T...
October 7, 2020

Father Timothy Strelkov: A Russian Priest Who Was Beheaded in 1918, Miraculously Survived for 12 Years, and Was Hacked to Pieces in 1930

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  A great miracle took place in the life of the priest Father Timothy Strelkov. He was condemned to death by the communists, beheaded, but ...
August 14, 2020

Holy New Martyr Nazarius, Metropolitan of Kutaisi-Gaenati in Georgia, With his Companions (+ 1924)

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Metropolitan Nazarius of Kutaisi-Gaenati was born in 1872 in the village of Didi Jikhaishi in Imereti. His forefathers belonged to a long l...
July 23, 2020

Holy New Martyr Andrew Argunov (+ 1938)

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St. Andrew Argunov (Feast Day - July 23) Andrew Ivanovich Argunov was born into the peasant family of Ivan Kuzmich and Pelagia Vasilievn...
July 22, 2020

Holy New Hieromartyr Michael Nakaryakov (+ 1918)

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St. Michael Nakaryakov (Feast Day - July 22) The early life of Father Michael Nakaryakov is unknown to us, but he was born in 1866. He s...
July 18, 2020

Holy Venerable New Martyr Barbara Yakovleva (+ 1918)

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St. Barbara the New Martyr (Feast Day - July 18) Barbara Alexeyevna Yakovleva was born around 1880 in the Principality of Tver, and was ...
January 27, 2020

Holy New Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Voronezh (+ 1929)

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Archbishop Peter was born on February 18, 1878, the eldest son of a Moscow protopriest, Fr. Constantine Zverev (who later became the spirit...
September 10, 2019

Holy New Martyr Tatiana Grimblit (+ 1937)

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St. Tatiana Grimblit (Feast Day - September 10) That we live in an increasingly secularized society, as contemporary Christians so often...
July 31, 2019

Holy New Hiero-Confessor Basil (Preobrazhensky), Bishop of Kineshma (+ 1945)

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St. Basil of Kineshma (Feast Day - July 31) The Saint's greatness was rooted in his upbringing, which was strict even by the standar...