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An ‘essentially frozen and unresponsive’ cat was found buried under a mountain of snow on Thursday, Jan. 31. Fluffy, the cat, has since made a miraculous recovery. https://accuweather.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/af150b6/2147483647/resize/590x/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faccuweather-bsp.s3.amazo...

Back to the one I call "Sri Mata Matrona" [ see earlier pages of this thread ], I was dismayed to see that the Rocor-MP New Shamordino Convent in Kentlyn, Australia, harbors a so-called 'relic' of this pseudo-saint, alongside so many true Saints [ though Amphilochius of Pochaev is an MP '...

Back to our great Saint, here is an edifying story of how disobedience to the Starets lead to an unpleasant awakening from a narcissistic slumber in one of his supplicants. Note how the young woman doesn't even consider that St Feofil could warn her of difficulty ahead. But in her self-aggrandizing...

"His erudition, the gift of spiritual speech and zeal in his ministry made him an outstanding hierarch." Thus spoke Count George Alexandrovich Sheremetiev about his spiritual father at one phase of his life, Bishop Sava. With his family, Count George Alexandrovich had migrated from France ...

Not sure what the current trend of realistic tatt... are - are they anything like THIS, OrthodoxinMichigan ?? That would be absolutely terrible if someone used this image that way ! It is an odd icon. I would not have posted it but for the [ Slavonic, I assumed ? ] writing on the side. That made me...

Yes, I do have lots more to post on St Feofil ! Referring back to an earlier post here : http://www.euphrosynoscafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11907#p69285, interestingly, there is a fresco of Tsar Nicholas I [ provenance not yet identifiable ] which accompanied a very sympathetic account o...