Saint Melor the Breton, Prince and Martyr
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Saint Melor the Breton, Prince and Martyr

Commemorated October 1/14

Dmitry Lapa

Unfortunately, no authentic information on St. Melor (also Melorius, Mylor) survives. We know neither when nor where he lived. The only thing we can say for sure is that his life was connected with Brittany and/or Cornwall, and the most important center of his veneration for many years from the tenth century was the English town of Amesbury in the county of Wiltshire (southern England).

Back Home: A Jordanville Father visits Slovakia
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Churches and Monasteries

Back Home: A Jordanville Father visits Slovakia

Archimandrite Luke (Murianka), Abbot of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville (ROCOR), was recently invited to Slovakia, where the memory of St. Job of Pochaev is still honoured by Trans Carpathian Orthodox Christians. Here is there report.

Let Us All Turn to the Mother of God! On the Feast of the Protection.
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Let Us All Turn to the Mother of God! On the Feast of the Protection.

St. Alexis Toth

But anyplace wherever we would be, the Lord's Mother is with us! She hears our prayers to Her. She is also here in Minneapolis and She hears our prayers. She sees when you put candles before her icon requesting for yourself, your homeland and your friends Her assistance and protection.

Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil: “We will defend our holy places”
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Suffering Church

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Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil: “We will defend our holy places”

On the violent takeover of a church in Katerinovka

We simply cannot leave our church to its fate or hand it over to someone else. Now some people have lost the fear of God and do not want our communal prayer to continue in the church. And we will do our best to defend our holy places.

History of St. Gregory and the Conversion of Armenia, by Agathangelos
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History of St. Gregory and the Conversion of Armenia, by Agathangelos

Central to this effort is Agathangelos' description of Gregory's vision of the burial place of the martyrs. Gregory is shown a golden base where the cathedral at Vagharshapat (later Etchmiadzin) is to be built. Thus Agathangelos establishes a divine foundation for the cathedral and for the church leaders who will reside there ­ so again, he makes a case for the "rightness" of the hierarchs and the hierarchical structure of the Church.