Orthodox Christians have profound love and veneration for the Most Holy Mother of God, and greatly love the feast of her Dormition.
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most beloved saints of the Russian Church, the great 18th-century Holy Hierarch Tikhon of Zadonsk.
Olga Demidyuk
Just when it seems you can’t go any further, the laws of logic end and God acts.
The pilgrimage celebrations were led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of Washington and All America and Canada, who was invited by the local hierarch His Grace Bishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska.
Tens of thousands of faithful Ukrainian Orthodox Christians arrived in procession at the Pochaev Lavra on Sunday, August 25, just days before the monastery’s patronal feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.