According to an administrative document from 1707, the church was built in 1617, though local tradition says it actually dates to 1500.
Parishioners of the Church of St. Basil in the village of Pidzaharychi in Bukovina appealed to U.S. government agencies about protecting their rights on January 30.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
St. Xenia, beloved not only in Russia but also around the Orthodox world, was the fool-for-Christ who wandered the relatively newly-built capital of the Russian Empire.
St. Dalmat is the founder of the Dalmatovo-Holy Dormition Monastery on the territory of the modern-day Kurgan Province. Many miracles are associated with the saint’s name.
Pükhtitsa was founded in 1891 with assistance from St. John of Kronstadt. Besides the Pskov Caves Monastery, it is the only holy habitation to have never closed during the long decades of atheist Bolshevik rule.