Matushka Olga was canonized by decision of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America in November 2023.
At the end of the service, a cross procession was held around the monastery with its revered “Sorrowful” Icon of the Mother of God, after which Met. Sergei addressed the faithful with a sermon.
After the 1999 war and subsequent violent pogroms against Serbian Orthodox Christians, Draganac Monastery is the only living monastery remaining in the eastern region of Kosovo, the others having been destroyed in the war.
A new Romanian Orthodox parish has been established in the Italian town of Orte, Viterbo, under the patronage of Sts. Cleopa and Paise of Sihăstria.
A fire broke out at the Metropolitan Church of St. Athanasios in Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, in the early morning yesterday.