A Kiev court has ordered the local police to investigate the acting head of the state’s Kiev Caves Lavra Museum and Preserve, who spoke of “cleansing” the sacred monastery of the Orthodox monks who live there.
At six days and 110 miles long, passing through 12 locations, the procession is Russia’s longest. It honors St. Nicholas and his Velikoretsky (Great River) Icon, processing to the place where it was found, and back again.
The Georgian Orthodox Diocese of North America was blessed with a visit from the bishop of the ancient Georgian Diocese of Nikozi and Tskhinvali last month.
St. John Vladimir was a 10th-century Serbian prince and is known as a beacon of Orthodoxy in Albania and throughout the Balkans. His relics were located in the monastery from 1381 to 1995, and are now kept in the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Tirana, from where they are brought to the monastery every year for the feast.
St. Joakim, an 18th-19th century ascetic and enlightener, was canonized by decision of the Macedonian-Ohrid Synod on May 10, 2022.