November 1, 2014

Did St. Nikolai Velimirovich Write Against Halloween?

St. Nikolai Velimirovich

By John Sanidopoulos

This question brings up many issues, so I'm going to explain the process of how I arrived at the answer in order to clarify some of these issues.

As every Halloween for the past five years, I received quite a bit of Halloween-hate mail from Halloween-haters due to what I have written and posted on Halloween, in which I expose the falsehoods many Orthodox Christians and non-Orthodox love to circulate around this holiday. Though I have a tendency to just ignore it all, this year something different happened. This year my annual Halloween-hate mail came with an attachment from an alleged essay written by St. Nikolai Velimirovich (sometimes spelled "Nikolaj Velimirovic") on the topic of Halloween. When I first saw it, I wondered, how could this possibly slip by me in my research? But as I began to read it, I noticed something very peculiar.

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