Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames without any casualties.
A serious fire broke out yesterday, Sunday, March 3, at the holy Cell of the Lifegiving Spring on Mt. Athos, located between the Koutloumousiou and Iveron Monasteries, near the Athonite capital of Karyes.
Celebrations in honor of the 185th anniversary of the Polotsk Council that reunited Belarusian and Lithuanian Uniates with the Orthodox Church in 1839 were held on Sunday, March 3, in the ancient town of Polotsk.
During the meeting with the faithful, the Nha Trang parish was established in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The cross bears the inscription: “To the venerable Mother Abbess Anastasia from the grateful nuns and sisters of the Hodigitria Monastery. 1916.”