Christ is risen! STOC

[Despotovac]

Хрїстóсъ воскрéсе! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Christ is risen! Hristos a înviat!

Pasha on Uteshiteljevo: http://uteshiteljevo.blogspot.com/searc ... %81%202014

[Barbara]

Nice video !

Who would that be in the photograph on the wall at about 26:50 or :59 ?
It's very large picture.

One recommendation would be to title the video in English.
Not to bring up indelicate subjects, but having it in Serbian yields a plethora of
unsavory links to videos not in accord with the Paschal - or Orthodox - spirit, to
put it mildly !

[Despotovac]

Who would that be in the photograph on the wall at about 26:50 or :59 ?
It's very large picture.

Archimandrite Arsenije Toshovich
In the beginning of the fifties, due to the bad state in the Serbian Church, Mihailo Toshovich, one of the more important figures for Serbian True Orthodoxy, also joined the Russian Church Abroad. In 1952 he was chosen as professor of Holy Scriptures and the Greek language at the Russian Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville. There he was tonsured a monk, receiving the name Arsenije. Later he was ordained a hieromonk, and then raised to the rank of archimandrite. In the mid-50s, with the blessing of Metropolitan Anastasius, he began to publish the spiritual journal Serbian Missionary, in which he exposed the apostasy of the Serbian Church, the MP, and “world orthodoxy.” Father Arsenije warned Serbs that it was necessary to separate from the Serbian Patriarchate due to its enslavement to the Communists, and advocated the establishment of a Serbian Church Abroad following the example of the Russian Church Abroad. Father Arsenije’s idea was supported by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich, but by 1956 he had already reposed under very dubious circumstances. There exists a serious suspicion that he was poisoned.

[Barbara]

Oh ! Really ?? I was going to ask what happened to this Archimandrite Arsenije, for his name has never been
talked about much. It's the first time I've heard it.
What a hero, indeed ! I can see why they have his picture present there.
I am so sorry he was persecuted so tragically.
Despotovac, where was he at the time of his apparent poisoning, do you have any idea ?
In Jordanville or traveling to Serbia [then Yugoslavia] ??
I would like to hear more detail about this brave trailblazer of Serbian True Orthodoxy, if
you know. Or have contacts to ask.
Was Mihailo Toshovich living in the US at the time he joined the Russian Church Abroad ?