“Behold, an Israelite Indeed, in Whom There Is no Deceit!" (John 1: 47)

August 10

Archbishop Antonii (Khrapovitskii) by Mikhail Nesterov. 1917. He preaches here in a church of Vysoko Petrovsky monastery in Moscow

Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitskii) died on this day in Serbia in 1936. He came to monasticism from noble origins and therefore did not have the inferiority complex of many clergy from the Russian “Levite caste.” This may ex…