This procession, which attracts thousands of pilgrims, is the largest annual procession in Russia.
Elijah Rogers
The saints in Heaven are not dead. That is a fundamental rejection of what Christ did during His decent into Hades.
Archpriest Andrei Chizhenko
Today we too have a well, but not Jacob’s. We have a greater one! The Well of the Holy Trinity—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This is the Church.
Radu Hagiu
His entire being breathed humility: his bright face, his warm smile, his meek and edifying word, his modesty, kindness, and simplicity, the way he hid his monastic labor and his deeds—in a word, his spiritual nobility.
“There has probably never been a more famous parish priest in the history of Odessa,” reads a message from the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Odessa, where the great saint’s relics lie in repose.