Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Was Elder Thaddeus a True Orthodox Christian? It appears that he opposed the institution of the New Calendar at the Finnish monastery.
I found this information on another webforum but there was no link given.
As soon as a link is posted, I will add that link here in this thread:
Fr Thaddeus was born in Serbia in 1914. Aged 15, he was told by doctors that he had only five
years to live. The young man entered the monastery of Milkovo, where he became a monk, the
disciple of Russian monks who had taken refuge there. They had come to Serbia as a result of the
Bolshevik coup d’etat in Russia and the neo-calendarist persecution of Orthodoxy at Valaam
Monastery, then in Finland. Among the Russian monks at Milkovo was the well-known Fr
Ambrose, a disciple of St Ambrose of Optina. It was from him that Fr Thaddeus soon learned the
Jesus Prayer.
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