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Tamara joined a convent, despite all persuasion and pleas from her relatives. Over her family's objections, Tamara joined a convent, tonsured as Juvenalia. Some sisters saw a white dove descend on her at her tonsure.
The Optina Monastery is a famous stauropegion of the Russian Orthodox Church, located in the Kaluga region. A stauropegion is a church or monastery exempt from the jurisdiction of the local bishop and directly subject to the highest authority…
Korsun is an ancient Greek city-state, or Polis, established on the Southwest coast of the Crimea. Years later, it became known as Khersones. Byzantians called it Kherson, while it remained Korsun for the Slavs.
Through art, Scripture, and a sunlit afternoon outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the author discovers that the great apostle to the Gentiles is still speaking – directly to every heart.
This introduction connects ancient churches, wells, caves and island cells with the saints who prayed there, giving Orthodox readers rich context for future pilgrimages.
A moving portrait reveals how Saint Luke kept his cassock, his scalpel and his pulpit through interrogation, exile and blindness, offering hope to readers in illness, grief and doubt.
A gentle reading brings comfort to anyone touched by loss, showing Blessed Xenia's path from widowhood to holy foolishness and the quiet joy that love in Christ can give after many tears.
The story of a Serbian prince who chose surrender over bloodshed, chastity within marriage, and accepted his own martyrdom with the words of Abel and Isaac. His relics still work wonders in Tirana.
