Life is Often More Complex than One Might Expect: A Story of a Confessor
October 17
New Hiero-Confessor Varsonofii (Yurchenko) passed away on this day in 1954. It is also the namesday of my mother Veronika who passed away on February 28th this year.
In 1998, the only time when I visited the Holy Land, I met Archimadnrite Nektarii (Chernobyl’), who served as a father confessor in the ROCOR’s Mount of Olives monastery for many years (and…
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