Olga Sokirkina
These women lived during the period of militant atheism—the persecution of the Church and the repression of the clergy and the faithful.
Priest Anthony Kabanov
Archbishop Hilarion (secular name: Vladimir Alexeyevich Troitsky) was born on September 13/25, 1886 in the village of Lipitsy of the Kashira district of the Tula province (now in the Moscow region) into the family of the parish priest Alexei Troitsky.
Olga Izhenyakova
He did everything with an unfailing smile, in which one could read: “I love you”
Hieromonk Platon (Kudlasevich)
Having received a special grace and been vouchsafed to see God once, afterwards St. Silouan felt a longing for the Creator and strove in every possible way to please Him and regain the grace that the Lord had abundantly bestowed upon him in his youth when he worked as a novice at the mill of St. Panteleimon’s Monastery on Mt. Athos.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
Love is not merely sympathy or compassion—it is carrying another’s cross.
