Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
St. Seraphim believed in Christ to the point of blood, to the point of readiness to shed his blood and empty his life.
Metropolitan Paul of Sisanion and Siatista
But for Elder Iakovos, God was a Person Whom he trusted, Whom he prayed to; he turned all his problems and those of others into prayer to God.
The relics of two great 20th-century Romanian confessors were solemnly uncovered at monasteries near Bucharest on Monday.
With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, a maritime procession with relics of the Right-Believing Prince St. Alexander Nevsky arrived in Yalta last week.
The Divine Liturgy for the feast was also celebrated in the Church of St. Agapit, one of the only Lavra churches still open to the canonical UOC amidst the state’s ongoing campaign of Church persecution.