Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna was a Lutheran who married into Russian nobility and eventually converted to the Orthodox faith. When her husband was assassinated by revolutionaries in 1905 she became an Orthodox nun. In 1918 she was arrested and killed by the Bolsheviks at the start of the Russian Revolution. Elisabeth was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in … [Read more...] about Amazing Letters of German Princess Who Was Slain By Bolsheviks and Became Russian Saint
Church History
One Hundred Years Since the Murder of the Russian Royal Family
July 17, 2018, marks the centennial of the killing of the Russian royal family. On that date a hundred years ago, the last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife the tsarina Alexandra, their five children and four retainers, were ushered into a basement in the city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of the morning, for an execution that would mark a turning point in … [Read more...] about One Hundred Years Since the Murder of the Russian Royal Family
Fr. Patrick Viscuso Commencement Address: Counsels to Seminary Graduates
The Rev. Dr. Patrick Viscuso Commencement Address June 3, 2018. Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary and Monastery Almost forty years ago, my seminary class graduated from an Orthodox theological school, many of us in preparation for the Holy Priesthood. With all of the excitement during the graduation ceremonies, I cannot even recall what was said by our main speaker or if we … [Read more...] about Fr. Patrick Viscuso Commencement Address: Counsels to Seminary Graduates
Christ and Culture
Editor's Note: In May of 1923, one Mr. Coulton of the American Red Cross met with Florensky in Moscow. Florensky gave him an article, which does not seem to have been published in the original Russian, but only in the English translation below, prepared by Coulton and published in vol. 4, no. 4 (1924) of The Pilgrim, edited by William Temple, the future Archbishop of … [Read more...] about Christ and Culture