Thousands of faithful have made the pilgrimage to the monastery of St. John the Evangelist in a small town in northern Greece to visit the grave of the Orthodox Church's latest saint, Saint Paisios.
The seed of Orthodoxy has germinated in Uganda and the Orthodox Church has started growing in this African country despite the innumerable difficulties and obstacles it was confronted with.
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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church made the decision to establish this monastery in 1904. It was founded with the blessing of St. John of Kronstadt, who even marked this place with a cross on the photographs that had been shown to him. Some of the saint’s personal things are on display at the museum’s exposition.
In the courtyard of the Sacred Church of Saint Nicholas in Patras of the Peloponnese, a chapel built in honor of the newly-glorified Venerable Paisios the Athonite immediately honored him when it was announced that he was officially canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Archimandrite Ilia (Kartozia) saved the lives of a Greek lady and her little daughter on the Norman Atlantic ferry at the cost of his own life. The Italian La Republica newspaper relates the details of the incident.