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Древний Иерихон хранит множество свидетельств библейской эпохи и любит русскую речь.

Слава о Финиане, любимом и почитаемом за святость жизни, ученость, дар молитвы и совершенные чудеса, разнеслась по всей Ирландии и далеко за ее пределы.

Если сочинение наполнено светлым духом, то оно способно согреть наше сердце. Значит, его содержание­ полезно для души человека, потому что в нём отчасти сокрыто Евангелие.

Из писем мученика Михаила Новоселова (1864–1938)

Андрей Кончаловский: Я раньше был западником и тоже думал, что у России один путь — на Запад. Теперь убедился, что нет у нас такого пути.

Чудо, даже вполне явное и необъяснимое, ничего не докажет душе, которая не желает, чтобы ей что-либо доказали. Я это хорошо знаю по собственному опыту.

Дни памяти святителя Феофана Затворника Вышенского: 19 января – преставление; 23 января – рождение; 29 июня – перенесение мощей. В обширном наследии святителя Феофана сохранились 19 писем к афонскому иеромонаху отцу Арсению (Минину), написанные в 1870-е гг.

14 января 2017 года гостем передачи «Церковь и мир», которую на телеканале «Россия-24» ведет председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион, стал народный артист СССР, советский и российский актер театра и кино, художественный руководитель Малого театра Ю.М. Соломин.

LGBT activists gave a notification of intention to hold two rallies and a march in the Russian town of Salekhard, the closest town to the Arctic Circe, 1200 miles northeast of Moscow. In its turn, town administration gave its refusal.

Patriarch Ilia had pledged to baptize the third and later children of parents who have been married in the Church, in a bid to improve the nation’s poor demographic situation.

Negotiations with the new owner and repayment for the icon were undertaken by the Museum of Russian Icons, which in recent years has returned around twenty icons stolen from museums in Rostov, Ustyuzhna, Veliky Ustyug and Murom

The World Russian People’s Council (WRPC) has proposed December 5, the anniversary of the explosion of Christ the Savior Cathedral, as a civil day to remember ruined churches of all traditional religions in Russia.

“This event was extremely angering to hospital employees, as among them there are not a few people of different confessions and religions, but the signature collection was ‘voluntarily-compulsory,’” said the hospital source.

The day of the Theophany is the day when the whole world is being renewed and becomes a partaker of the sanctity of God. But at the same time, it is the day when Christ enters on the way to Calvary.

An icon of Christ “Not Made By Hands” in Kazakhstan began streaming myrrh again during the forefeast of Theophany.

At seventeen years of age he left his parental home, became a monk, and passed his obedience under Elder Mark, the finest spiritual instructor in Macedonia.

Saint James, Bishop of Nisibis, was the son of prince Gefal (Armenia) and received a fine upbringing.

Saint Eleazar of Anzersk was born in the city of Kozelsk into the merchant family Severiukov. With the blessing of his parents he went off to the Solovki monastery, where he received monastic tonsure from the igumen Saint Irenarchus.

The Holy Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus, Slavs by origin, lived at the beginning of the fourth century during a persecution against Christians by the emperor Licinius (311-324).

A new archaeological discovery in Israel’s Timna Valley is shedding new light on ancient Israel’s military and trade life.

Fr. John has relentlessly sought to defend the unborn in articles, lectures, academic work, and in continued participation in the March for Life. On Wednesday, January 11, 2017, my wife and I had the pleasure to sit with Fr. John and his wife, Matushka Kathy, to discuss his spiritual journey leading him to participate in the March for Life.

Irenarchus, Hermit of Rostov, was born into a peasant family in the village of Kondakovo in the Rostov district. In his thirtieth year, he was tonsured a monk at the Rostov Saints Boris and Gleb monastery.

The “Akathist” Icon of the Mother of God is on the iconostasis of the Hilandar monastery’s katholikon.

Saint Eupraxia the Elder was the mother of Saint Eupraxia, maiden of Tabennisi. She was the wife of the pious senator Antigonus, who was related to the emperor Theodosius the Great.

Saint Martinian of White Lake, in the world Michael, was born in the year 1370 in the village of Berezniko, not far from the Cyrilov monastery. At age thirteen he left his parents and went secretly to Saint Cyril of White Lake, whom many described as a great ascetic.

The Holy Virgin Martyr Tatiana was born into an illustrious Roman family, and her father was elected consul three times.

The Elets Icon of the Mother of God appeared in the year 1060.

Blessed Michael of Klops was of noble lineage, and he was a relative of Great Prince Demetrius of the Don.

Saint Theodosius the Great lived during the fifth-sixth centuries, and was the founder of cenobitic monasticism.

Saint Antipas was born in Moldavia, Romania in 1816.

Saint Macarius of Pisma and Kostroma was a fellow ascetic of Saint Paul of Obnora.

Saint Paul of Obnora, a famed disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, was born at Moscow in the year 1317.

Saint Dometian, Bishop of Melitene, was born and lived during the sixth century, in the time of the emperor Justin the Younger.

Saint Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, was a younger brother of Saint Basil the Great. His birth and upbringing came at a time when the Arian disputes were at their height.

In our voluntary union with Christ and His Cross, we bear a little shame, and bring the cycle of shame and violence into the silence and healing of paradise.

Празнујмо и ми с радошћу духовном сабор светог великог Јована, Претече и Крститеља, молећи га да се моли за нас Господу Христу, да се саберемо и у Цркви небеској, у храму нерукотвореном вечном на небу, и да тамо слушамо глас оних што празнују, и да с њима празнујемо вечно Богојављење, наслађујући ce c њима гледањем лица Божјег, који јасно показује себе светима Својим, и славећи са свима небеским хоровима Оца и Сина и Светога Духа, вавек, амин.

Различити тренуци живота последњег руског цара Николаја II Романова и његове породице који су у најтежим историјским тренуцима показали величину душе овековечена су пред оком објектива.