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One of the Most Touching Icons: Seraphim of Sarov with the Bear
Archaeology · Faith · Art · New York
A Landmark Event for the History of Art and Culture and for Collectors Alike
A landmark event for the history of art and culture and for collectors alike. The oldest known tablet bearing the “Ten Commandments” from the Book of Exodus has been sold at Sotheby's in New York, fetching twice its pre-sale estimate. The artefact is considered the only surviving
Faith · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The State Historical Museum Begins the First Stage of Restoring a Unique Nineteenth-Century Icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral
The State Historical Museum has begun the first stage of restoring a unique nineteenth-century icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral. The icon has been handed over to the Grabar restoration workshops. The
Archive · Faith · Books · Monarchies
Archbishop Platon on the hidden benefit of misfortunes and on moral unhappiness
Paul I's tutor, Platon, Archbishop of Moscow and Kaluga, in his sermon on the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, 22 October 1779, reasons on good and ill fortune, paying due respect precisely to the state of misfortune. According to Archbishop Platon, we reckon
Faith · Observations · Rome · Humour
Vatican Publishes Terms of Jubilee 2025 Indulgences, Including Abstaining from Social Media
The Vatican has issued fresh indulgences. In 2025, the remission of sins is offered not only for visiting churches, praying and doing good deeds, but also for giving up television, video games, telephones and social media at least once a week. Folks, we still have a chance. If you thought
Faith · The East · Books
A reflection on the impossibility of inaction and the duty to perform one's appointed tasks
A man does not yet enjoy freedom from action when he does not begin what he ought to do, nor does he attain bliss from perfect inaction. No one remains in inaction for a single minute. Every man is involuntarily compelled to act according to the principles native to his
NB! · Faith · Observations · Society
The Pope calls for the debts of poor countries to be forgiven, paradoxically supposing that this is a way of helping their development
The Pope calls for the debts of poor countries to be forgiven, paradoxically supposing that this is a way of helping their development. But economics, as it happens, is arranged a little differently
Almaty · Faith · Society · People
The rehabilitation of Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov) of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan (1893-1975), accused after the war of collaborating with the occupiers, has recently been revoked
Metropolitan Joseph was a man whom many tipped for Patriarch of All Russia after the death of Alexy I. He is also the author of the legendary retort to the remark that Yury Gagarin had flown into space and had not seen God, which ran thus: “Yury Gagarin did not
Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Observations · Paris
"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering
"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering. To many it seems that if there is innocent suffering, then there is no God, no divine providence. This is one of the arguments of
NB! · Faith · Observations
Would You Like to Talk About God?
Archive · Faith · Books · Monarchies · Society
A text on Freemasonry in Russia, its ban under Alexander I and the Illuminati
Some Excerpts from the Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and the State" ...Preaching complete non-interference in religious and state affairs, Freemasonry, with its closed character, its secret signs and rites, constituted a kind of separate secret state, which in governments was bound to arouse