The First Serbian Archbishop of Saracen Saint Sava purchased the Last Supper Room by covering the entire area with golden coins. Later the icons of the Nursing Theotokos and the Three-handed Theotokos, were given to him by monks of the Mar Sabba Monastery, which can be found on Mount Athos today. Fascination is certainly one […]
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Jesus Christ (5/4 BCE – 31 BCE) is the unique and most famous Person in the history of mankind from whose birth an entire era counts. According to calculations from the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus (Luke 1 and 2), and the schedule of priesthood service (1 Diary 24: 1-19), Jesus was born
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The hand of Saint John with which He baptized Jesus Christ was revered by the first Christians as a great sanctuary. When did the Hand of Saint John the Baptist arrive in Serbia? The hand of Saint John the Baptist has long been in the Russian imperial Romanov family. After the affliction of the imperial
Elder Ephraim the Philotheus (in the world known as Ioanis Moraitis) was born on June 24, 1928 in Volos, Greece. At the age of 19, he renounced the world and moved to Mount Athos, becoming the obedient spiritual child of Saint Elder Joseph Hesychast, a silent man and hermit. The greatness of Ephraim Ephraim’s personality
He was born in Kursk, Russia, on July 19, 1759, to wealthy parents. At baptism he was named Prohor. When he was 17, his mother sent him to devote himself to a monastic life. At the parting, she gave him a small cross, from which he had never separated. First he went to the Kiev-Pechersk
