Archimandrite Zosima (Gorshunov)
The word “Znamenny” means “sign.” The Znamenny Icon, the Znamenny church—what kind of signs are these? I think they’re signs of God’s mercy, His boundless salvific love for us. Most important is to notice, recognize, and follow these signs.
Everyone wanted to be baptized then. There was a massive demand for the Orthodox faith. I remember, as soon as we’d arrive in some remote village, explain to the village council who we were and why we’d come, and make an announcement, all the people would come running right away.
Georgy Ogorodnikov
Metropolitan Chrysanthus studied Russian, made use of the rich library of the main seminary, and became acquainted with the history of Russia and its church structure
For eleven years the hierarch fearlessly defended the Orthodox flock from the caprice of the local pasha and the greed of Ottoman officials.
Archdeacon Vladimir Vasilik
There was a moment when a German officer slid by right next to him without noticing the prisoner of war. On his last legs, the escapee made it to the nearest house and collapsed at the door. And another miracle happened: They did not give him up, even though the Germans shot people for hiding prisoners of war.
Deacon Dionisy Akhalashvili
From the very heart of death, from the depths of this veritable hell on earth, carried the words, “Christ is Risen!” And in reply came the shout, “In Truth He is Risen!”
Archimandrite Jerome (Testin)
The greatest sacrifice, the sacrifice of love, was made here and; owing to it, we can live today.
Alexander Mosyakin
Lenin, being a faithful disciple of Marx and Engels, like them hated the Russian Empire and was an inveterate Russophobe.
Marx invented a certain special “Slavic race” forming around the “Russian race,” striving for world domination, which opposes the civilized European peoples (“Germano-Romanic race”) and with which Europe must wage merciless war.
Medieval wall paintings long hidden beneath plaster and limewash are reappearing inside the Byzantine monastery church of Agios Nikolaos (Saint Nicholas) in Mesopotamos, Albania, after conservators uncovered previously unknown frescoes during a continuing restoration programme.
“Ruthless struggle not for life, but to death with the Slavdom treacherous to the revolution… —exterminatory war and unrestrained terror.”
Gabriel Augustine Galeano
Contemporaries described him as a man who “personified love, peace, delicacy, patience and goodwill towards all people.”
Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, Olesya Nikolaeva
In fact, liberal politicians, writers and journalists acted, without fully realizing it, in the role of instigators of terrorism and participants in the “big lie” project.
Svetlana Rybakova
Praying in front of the icon of the Mother of God, “Quick to Hear”—the one that the Russian hermit had donated to the Netherlands—Fr. Dionysius made a vow: if the Lord would rescue him and give him the opportunity to organize a parish or build a church someday, he would have it dedicated to the Icon of the Mother of God, “Quick to Hear”.
Vadim Prokopenkov
Several episodes of his clairvoyance a few days before the tragedy were also reported. According to eyewitness recollections, on the eve of the battle, Father Anthony told acquaintances: “Why should my things drown in the sea? Take them and keep them.”
Matthew Namee
If you know a little bit about church history, you can probably spot some immediate problems with this text.
The northernmost Orthodox church in America was built in 1992 and consecrated in honor of Saint Herman of Alaska. Last summer, the husband and wife film team, Mikhail and Ekaterina P, spoke with its rector, Father Andrew, about Orthodox traditions and the special nature of serving the Church in Alaska.
The issue of capital punishment in Russia became an argument in demagogic reasoning by opponents of the Russian state system.
Terrorists in their doctrinal worldview statements assured that they fought exclusively with exploiters, but in fact they did not disdain the murders of people from the poorest strata of society—peasants or workers, if they considered themselves monarchists and patriots of Russia.
Gapon, perhaps, did not realize that he had become the main provocateur and instigator of these bloody events, and placed all the blame on Emperor Nicholas II.
