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He who is lonely in sorrow
more often dreams of the help of the Lord, when on a distant path, on a sea unknown to him, with longing in his heart, he measures with his strokes the icy sea, a lonely exile, and knows: fate is all-powerful. Literal translation from the Old English elegy "
Faith · Madrid · Society · Nature · Ethnography
Last Saturday Spain held festivities marking the feast of Saint Anthony the Great, patron saint of domestic animals
Near Madrid, in the village of San Bartolomé de Pinares, which has a population of about 500, the rite of Las Luminarias has been held every year for centuries. Riders lead their horses through bonfires lit right in the streets; the ritual is believed to purify the animals and protect
Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · The East
Archaeologists discover ruins of a Byzantine-period monastic complex in Sohag Governorate, Egypt
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a Byzantine-period monastic complex in Sohag Governorate in Egypt. The find has been described as the most comprehensive of its kind in the region. The monastery comprises residential and communal buildings, small cell-like annexes for the monks, as well as service rooms
Faith · Books · Society
The Bible becomes the best-selling book of 2025, setting a sales record in the US and Britain
Around 6.3 million Bibles were sold in Britain, a new record for the whole history of the book's sales and 134% more than in 2019. The number of people attending church in England and Wales has risen by 50% since 2018. In the US, sales have reached
Archive · Faith · Cinema
The Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church marking the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', held in June 1988 in Zagorsk, now Sergiev Posad
At this council Prince Dmitry Donskoy, Andrey Rublev, Maximus the Greek, Metropolitan Macarius, Paisius Velichkovsky, the Blessed Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Ambrose of Optina and Theophan the Recluse were glorified among the saints. The celebration of the jubilee is shown in the 1989 documentary film “The Local Council
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
Kizhi
Kizhi. The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the snow. In front of the church, an Antonov An-2 aeroplane. Photo by Alexander Steshanov
Archive · Faith · Monarchies · Paris · People
15 August, 4.30 in the Morning
15 August, 4.30 in the morning. My God, have mercy on me! My eyes have no more tears with which to weep for you, my poor children; farewell, farewell! Marie Antoinette The Queen of France wrote this line in her prayer book a few hours before her death, knowing
Faith · Society
The world is always governed by the Word of God; neither the Americans nor the Europeans govern it
The world is always governed by the Word of God; neither the Americans nor the Europeans govern it. They may dominate for a short while, God permits it so that they may punish themselves. Saint Paisios of Mount Athos Amen
Faith · The East · Society · People
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service has published a statement calling Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople an "Antichrist in a cassock" and "the devil incarnate", accusing him of schismatic activity aimed at displacing the Russian…
The statement says that Patriarch Bartholomew, guilty of the "dismemberment of Orthodox Ukraine", has now turned his attention to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and is acting jointly with British intelligence services to create religious structures under Constantinople's control. Russian intelligence also claims that the Patriarch'
Archaeology · Faith · Science · People
There is a theory that the body of Alexander the Great lies in Venice, passing as the relics of Saint Mark
There is a theory that the body of Alexander the Great lies in Venice, passing as the relics of Saint Mark. The legend arises from the fact that in the 9th century the Venetians removed the relics of the Evangelist Mark from Alexandria and placed them in St Mark'
Faith · Monarchies · Rome
Last week, at the closing of the Holy Door of Saint Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the liturgy with a new papal ferula
The silver ferula with a crucifix was first used by Saint Paul VI in 1965, on the occasion of the closing of the Second Vatican Council. Saint John Paul II made use of the papal ferula from the very beginning of his pontificate. In the last years of his life