April 14, today, is the Day of St. Meliton, Bishop of Sardis [in today's Turkiye, where the ruins can still be seen].
Perhaps the nun named Melitona in the 1st post of this thread was named for him in a feminine version.
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- Mon 15 April 2024 1:10 am
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: St Amvrosy of Optina
- Replies: 8
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Re: St Amvrosy of Optina
- Mon 15 April 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: Beware World Orthodox Elders Who Reject Old Calendarists
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14607
Re: Beware World Orthodox Elders Who Reject Old Calendarists
Thank you, Rumpelstiltskin, for these most a propos remarks ! You described this dynamic so well, as did Fr Nikita Grigoriev. Thank you for taking the time to copy out that right-on-target passage ! Perfect replies for the many converts especially who follow either fake-elder Ephraim directly or in...
- Sun 14 April 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: Beware World Orthodox Elders Who Reject Old Calendarists
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14607
Re: Beware World Orthodox Elders Who Reject Old Calendarists
Updating this thread a little, I happened upon this anecdote of a purported "miracle" by Elder Ephraim by chance today. I will let readers decide whether they believe this or not. I am skeptical, as the person in question likely suffered from his or her serious seizures due to demon posse...
- Sat 13 April 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
- Topic: St Barsanuphius of Optina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1061
Re: St Barsanuphius of Optina
Well, it's that day again ! The same one on which Elder Nektary per the 1st post prophesied to Elder Barsanuphius that he would repose in two decades. And that was indeed the day that the obedient Elder Barsanuphius breathed his last - exactly twenty years later ! http://www.pravoslavie.ru/sas/imag...
- Sat 13 April 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers
- Replies: 40
- Views: 591
Re: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers
OH, I see ! Do you - or anyone - think the problem at Jordanville was a generic one, which would affect any American or non-Slavic person there ?? After all the former Dean Fr. Webster resigned after only a couple of years ; I had wondered whether that was due to "the tough crowd" there ?...
- Sat 13 April 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
- Topic: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39
- Replies: 6
- Views: 80
Re: Struggle on Valaam 1923-39
What an edifying story !
Isn't it nice that it was translated, or else probably like many other happenings that were only recorded in Russian newspapers and magazines of that time, it would not have been accessible to English-speakers.
Thanks for finding this, Sava !
- Fri 12 April 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: World Orthodox, Heretical, and Vagante Jurisdictions
- Topic: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers
- Replies: 40
- Views: 591
Re: Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers
OHHH ! I had no idea. Well this explains why Fr Peter had all the pictures of him and his matushka with Met Hilarion of Rocor-MP. -- Why did Fr Peter leave from Jordanville after only one year ? Neither side liked the other ? I think he continued to teach some correspondence courses, something like...