I found this interesting article about Archpriest Elias Warnke of the ROCA in Las Vegas.
During the week of the Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God, the ROCA parish of St. Vladimir in Edmonton, Alberta, was blessed to receive a visit from the Miraculous Myrrh-Streaming Icon of St. Nicholas, brought to us by its guardian Archpriest Elias Warnke from the Mission of St. Nicholas in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was Fr. Elias’s first visit with the Holy Icon to any ROCA parish in eight years, since he has suffered grievously from ill health and has been unable to travel. The last time he came to St. Vladimir’s was in 1998.
Fr. Elias arrived in Edmonton with the Holy Icon on Thursday, September 7/20th. Before he left home he had carefully wiped off all the myrrh from the Holy Icon, and on the drive from the Edmonton airport to St. Vladimir’s it was already covered with Holy Myrrh again, and even its wooden case was moist. The car was filled with its heavenly fragrance. Upon arriving at St. Vladimir’s, Fr. Elias settled into his rooms. The fragrance and blessing from St. Nicholas’s Holy Icon started to fill the entire building. This marked the beginning of a profound, omnipresent peace and joy that all who made the effort to attend would experience in the next few days.
http://stvladimirs.ca/wordpress/752/
Back during the early 2000s, before the breakup of the ROCOR, Archpriest Elias Warnke was pastor of another church back east. He came to visit Holy Transfiguration ROCOR Church in Los Angeles bringing with him this very icon. I was anointed with its holy myrrh. The entire church was filled with its fragrance that can only be described as a heavenly bouquet.
