Mother Elisabeth (Smelic) was appointed the fifth abbess of the convent by resolution of the ROCOR Holy Synod in 1999.
The Panagia Kato Xenia Icon is, according to tradition, one of those painted by the Apostle and Evangelist Luke. It was miraculously found in the coastal area of Laka Panagia in Magnesia around 850.
The arson was committed after the end of the Sunday Divine Liturgy.
Andrey Gidaspov
Christ’s humble gaze, His all-forgiving and all-loving eyes were imprinted in his soul, and he could never forget this vision…
The Holy Synod of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church met in Kiev on April 10 under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine. Among their decisions, the hierarchs decided to formally address the other Local Churches and international human rights organizations about the persecution the UOC is facing.