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Japanese icons are very different The new religion came to the Land of the Rising Sun in the 16th century with Jesuit missionaries. Japanese artists had a distinctive style, so they depicted biblical scenes using traditional techniques. They used flat perspective and a gold background, and the characters were dressed in local clothing. In 1600, the Tokugawa shogunate banned Christianity, and religious paintings became even more unrecognizable. They were disguised as Buddhist or Shintoist paintin...

Yesterday I submitted praying "Zapisku on Health" for Great Lent for you at the Optina Pustyn compound in Saint-Petersburg

People asked her for the strengthening of the Orthodox faith. 📸 /The St. Paul's Cathedral in Gatchina (26 Sobornaya Street) is currently undergoing renovation. Also a wooden church dedicated to St. Mary of Gatchina where her relics are temporarily housed. 📸 /Priest Igor, the rector of the church, is pictured at the shrine of Saint Mary of Gatchina and her icon. He will pray for African priests during Lent.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS LOST MORE THAN 70% OF ITS BELIEVERS The enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, will take place on March 25. In anticipation of this event, the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) has established a new governing body, thereby definitively severing ties with the Church of England administration. In early March, in the Nigerian city of Abuja, 347 Anglican bishops and 121 spiritual leaders from 27 provinces of the global South held a meetin...

Happy Holy Sunday ☦️ I have been in few new places in Saint-Petersburg and suberbs (Leningradskaya oblast) One of this place was Gatchina... Maria of Gatchina (1874-1932) /born Lydia Alexandrovna Lelyanova/ was a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church, an Orthodox saint venerated among the holy martyrs. Years of patiently enduring complete immobility gave Mother Maria of Gatchina the ability to console others. Even in her lifetime, she was known as "Holy Mother Maria." People from all over Russia fl...

The courtyard of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in Moscow Subscribe ✅

Congratulations for Deacon Raphael (Kenia) Axios! Axios! Axios! ☦

Violence against Orthodox Christians in Syria In Damascus, a demonstration of the Orthodox community took place in front of the building of the Antiochian Patriarchate with a request for help and protection amid the escalating situation in Hama province More info... Subscribe ✅

Sergius of Radonezh is Abbot of the Russian Land (birth name was Bartholomew; May 3, 1314 or May 1322 – September 25, 1392) – Abbot of the Russian Church, founder of several monasteries, including the Holy Trinity Monastery near Moscow (now the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius). A spiritual gatherer of the Russian people, associated with the cultural ideal of Holy Rus' and the emergence of Russian spiritual culture, "the guardian angel of Russia" (Pavel Florensky). He left no written legacy, but his...