Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)
However, we have not exhausted the full significance of St. Barbara’s Life for our peasant’s forebears. Our ancestors themselves were martyrs for the faith, and like St. Barbara, they were martyrs who were absolutely alone, absolutely defenseless. Lacking not only any real protection, they could not even find moral support from anyone outside their immediate circles, other than God and the saints.
For the past 100 years, the hieromartyr’s relics have been venerated at the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Neapoli, Nea Ionia, outside of Athens.
The 4th-century Holy Hierarch and Wonderworker is greatly beloved in the Orthodox world, making the Greek island of Corfu, the home of his relics since 1453, a popular place of pilgrimage for all Orthodox Christians.
Maria Tobolova
She prayed in such a way that it was obvious to me that the blind old woman saw the angelic realm as clearly as you and I see each other.
Bishop Alexei (Trader) of Alaska
In following this path, Father Michael did not hide the teachings of the Alaskan elders and the lives of native peoples under a bushel basket, but rather he put it on a candlestand so that their light could be seen throughout the entire world.