Dmitry Safonov
The materials of the investigative case confirm that the Patriarch was not really going to switch to the New Calendar and was only waiting for a convenient moment for its official cancellation.
St. Theophan the Recluse
According to his nature and the character imprinted in him, man is intended to be in communion with God. This is his Eternal Life, his life full of joy.
Nun Mariam (Yurchuk)
And at one moment she looked off to the side and saw that joyful, bright face on the icon. It was St. Sergius!
Natalia Vashchina
In 1928, Alexei left his cell, and his feat of feigned “foolishness” for Christ’s sake began. He lived anywhere he could, wore rags, and no one knew where he slept. He began to behave strangely; his fellow villagers could not always understand what he was doing.
Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae is among those 20th-century ascetics whom the Romanian Patriarchate intends to canonize in 2025, when it celebrates the 140th anniversary of its autocephaly and 100th anniversary of the its Patriarchal status.