The construction of the cathedral was completed under St. John (Maximovitch) of San Francisco, and has been the home of his incorrupt and wonderworking relics since his repose in 1966.
The 15th-century icon initially found its home on the iconostasis of the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the Lavra, founded by St. Sergius of Radonezh in the 14th century.
A priest who has been serving the Church since Soviet times received a martyric end in a terrorist attack against churches in Russia’s southern Dagestan Republic yesterday.
Simeon of Polotsk was a Belarusian and Russian Church and public figure, poet, thinker, and preacher.
The Philippines Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church held charitable events over the weekend to benefit needy schoolchildren for the coming academic year.