5 metropolitans and procession with wonderworking icon for patronal feast of city of Serres

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5 metropolitans and procession with wonderworking icon for patronal feast of city of Serres

Orthodox faithful filled the Metropolitan Church of the Archangels for the feast celebrated by the local hierarch Metropolitan Theologos of Serres and four visiting hierarchs.

Who Held Up the Train?

A miracle of St. Nestor the Chronicler

Alexander Uzhankov

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Who Held Up the Train?

A miracle of St. Nestor the Chronicler

Alexander Uzhankov

So that I wouldn’t be late, I came to the Kiev train station with time to spare. I looked at the timetable, but the Kharkov train was not on it. I went out to the platform, but I didn’t see a train standing. A vague anguish stole upon me—did I mixed something up?

Relics of St. Gabriel of Georgia gifted to Kazakhstan cathedral

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Relics of St. Gabriel of Georgia gifted to Kazakhstan cathedral

St. Gabriel, who reposed in 1995, has become one of the most beloved saints today throughout the Orthodox world.

St. Nektarios has worked many healing miracles in Romania—Exarch of Bucharest monasteries

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St. Nektarios has worked many healing miracles in Romania—Exarch of Bucharest monasteries

Radu Vodă Monastery in Bucharest is home to a fragment of the relics of St. Nektarios and counts him among its patron saints.

Holy Confessor Matrona (Vlasova)

Commemorated October 25/November 7

Elena Balashova

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Holy Confessor Matrona (Vlasova)

Commemorated October 25/November 7

Elena Balashova

Holy Confessor Matrona of Diveyevo spent seventeen years altogether in prison camps.