Almost simultaneously, pagans rose up against Christ and the Church in Denmark, Germany, and the Baltic Slavic principalities. Everywhere the unrest was accompanied by the destruction of churches, and the killing of clergy and other Christians.
Thousands of Orthodox Christians joined in an annual procession on the Greek island of Tinos on July 23.
The relics, kept at the Sofia Theological Seminary, were taken to Romania by request of the Pantocrator Monastery in Drăgănești-Vlașca, Teleorman County, in honor of the monastery’s patronal feast of St. Mary Magdalene.
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church formally approved the canonization of 16 martyrs, confessors, and ascetics of the 20th century at its session on July 11–12.
Stanislav Minakov
When she returned to Kiev, Olga brought with her icons, liturgical books, and the determination to convert the Russian people to Christianity.