The monks recall that it was the UOC that renovated the church, just as it revived the entire Lavra from ruin.
On Wednesday, 30 years of hard work were finally completed in the Great Consecration of the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Dzerzhinsk, the main cathedral of the Resurrection Deanery of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese.
A wildfire broke out in Greece’s Attica Region on Sunday and quickly spread, forcing the evacuation of multiple villages, as well as the Monasteries of St. Ephraim and of the Holy Dormition in Penteli.
The Lavra is divided into an upper and lower section. The Church was already expelled from the Upper Lavra, which includes the main cathedrals, at the end of 2022. Since then, the churches have been defiled with secular concerts and the services of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” which actively persecutes Orthodoxy in Ukraine.
Every year, around the new calendar feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, mysterious snakes appear in the villages of Markopoulo and Agrinia where there are chapels dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, remaining until the feast of the Dormition on August 15.