65 Photos | Kodiak, AK
This year’s pilgrimage to Kodiak and Spruce Island August 7-9, 2013 marked the 43rd Anniversary of the Glorification of Saint Herman of Alaska in 1970. The pilgrimage opened with the…
5 Photos | Ellwood City, PA
His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate presided at the annual patronal feastday pilgrimage to the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration on August 5-6,…
25 Photos | Minsk, Belarus
The official program was over but we still had a day of excursion and visits in Minsk. In the morning we went to the Saint Elizabeth Convent on the outskirts of Minsk to see something of the…
6 Photos | Elwood City, PA
The nuns of the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration extend an invitation to all faithful to join them for their annual pilgrimage marking their patronal feastday August 5-6, 2013. The…
25 Photos | Minsk, Belarus
The full day of celebrations in Minsk (Belarus) of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’ began with an outdoor Divine Liturgy celebrated in the Old Town square with some 50,000…
19 Photos | Kyiv, Ukraine
The Sunday Liturgy, commemorating Saint Vladimir (old calendar) was the height of the 1025th anniversary celebration in Kyiv. It was held outdoors at the Kyiv Caves Lavra in the square…
37 Photos | Kyiv, Ukraine
Yesterday began with a service of prayer (moleben) for the 1025th anniversary at St Vladimir’s Hill overlooking the Dnieper River where the people of Rus’ were baptized in 988. Among…
10 Photos | Kyiv, Ukraine
At 10:00 am yesterday morning patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops and delegates from the autocephalous churches boarded a special private train to Kyiv, sponsored by Vladimir…
25 Photos | Moscow, Russia
Yesterday was a day of immense contrasts. A quiet hospital visit with a 90-year woman. His Beatitude and the heads of church delegations meeting President Vladimir Putin for dinner and…
15 Photos | Moscow, Russia
Yesterday was the centerpiece of our stay in Moscow: the Divine Liturgy at Christ the Savior Cathedral commemorating the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’. But one of the themes of…