The Official Website of the RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
The Official Website of the RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
At one time, even fairly recently, the date July 17 in the so-called “new style,” was marked as a day of sorrow, because on this day the Russian people and the Russian diaspora remembered the great evil act when the…
Holy hieromartyr John of Gogolev Priest John Rusanovich was born in 1875 in the village of Gogolev, Chernigov province (now Brovara region, Kiev province) in the family of an Orthodox priest, Fr. Simeon, the rector of the Gogolev church of…
Adorned with their Blood Excerpt from the Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret Unwavering faithfulness to Christ shines forth especially clearly and victoriously in the struggle of those whom Christian antiquity called “witnesses” (in Greek, martys). This struggle of martyrdom…
Priest Suffers Martyrdom at the Hands of His Own Son (From the lives of the New Martyrs of Russia) During the time when the executioners Dzerzhinsky and Bahrman were in charge of the prison camp at the former monastery…