Maria Tobolova
As an alumna of Leushino Monastery, Anna wrote to her relatives that she accepts her service to the Anointed of God as an obedience and will never leave her position of her own free will.
The skull will remain in this church until November 16, where the Liturgy will be served daily and the doors will remain open 24 hours a day to accommodate the thousands who are coming to venerate St. John.
The service was led by His Eminence Metropolitan Artemy of Khabarovsk, concelebrated by four other hierarchs and local clergy.
Bogdan Lupescu
And there are even more nuns than monks. They are martyrs! Women live their lives richly adorned with virtues.
The tradition of eremitic life in Romania has never been interrupted: it is still alive, and monks continue to struggle in gorges and precipices.