The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Agreed ! I admit : there is a feeling of sinister eyes looking over one's shoulder when one is writing in the public Forums. This really feels safer. It was a good idea to create them. Thank you for that ! Now, Patriarch Ilya may LOOK independent. But surely that's what any Soviet agent or agent-in-...

It's believed by sharp observers that there are a stable of Israeli and pro-Israeli editors who go in and change everything on wikipedia to suit Israel's wishes. I think I have found evidence here, in an unlikely corner of said internet resource. Yesterday, I noted a call for the American politician...

Yes that's fair, Maria. I realized after I made my post that I was getting close to the "verboten" category in that post which initiates this thread here. Jean-Serge, well ! I assume that the MP controls A LOT behind the scenes in the Georgian Patriarchate. Not like before Saakashvili, of ...

Yes, of course, there is! There is 100 persons under GOC-K in Georgia and 2 parishes. I can hardly see Russian missions there, in particular since some churches of Russia say that Georgia is the canonical territory of Russia, and there are political problems between the two countries. In the GOC-K ...

This was a nice idea of Icxypion's for a thread. Let's try to remember it and add any applicable stories, so as to keep encouraging people. As for the first story above, on a very minor basis, I found a small slip of paper under my driver's seat today, where I reached for no real reason and fished a...

Aha ! This IS who I had first thought : the same Countess who was devoted to Starets Feofil of the Kiev Caves ! I knew her name was very familiar and immediately thought of this noblewoman. However, the date of repose didn't seem exactly right. It was, after all, 5 years before the repose of Feofil ...