Over 90 youth from 25 countries participated in “Suprasl 2024: A World Gathering of Orthodox Youth,” held at the Suprasl Academy at the Annunciation Monastery between 30 June -8 July 2024.
Sergei Shmel
This ascetic holds a special place among ancient Russian saints and is traditionally revered as the “chief of all Russian monks” because the monastery he founded on the hills of Kiev served as a center and school of ancient Russian monasticism and enlightenment for all of Rus’, for many centuries.
Over the decades, the buildings at New Skete on Mt. Athos, where the saint spent the last years of his life and where he was buried, have deteriorated, and the cover of his tomb had cracked into several pieces.
Greek police are reportedly preparing to storm Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos to evict its 118 resident monks.
St. Raphael was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated in America, where he faithfully served the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church under St. Tikhon, the future Patriarch of Moscow, together with a number of other saints.