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On a Summer night in early August, the faint light of a home office lamp glows through a cracked door... | The life of Chiune Sugihara

A voice was heard in Ramah, Rachel, weeping for her children. Handwritten by candlelight on a remote island in Alaska in the 1990’s, this is a video adaptation of the 2nd edition for 2024. The book brings the reader through landscapes of despair, addiction, nihilism and suicide to a place of hope and redemption that is found in "the last true rebellion", that is, taking a stand against the world and all it's emptiness; living a God centered life that leads to inner healing and resurrection.

An account of a normal man, much like anyone of us... In 1916, Archbishop Nikon, a member of the Holy Synod, reprinted this writing in his publication "Trinity Pages" with the following comments: "in regard to this narrative, in due time, we had correspondence with its author, who, after ascertaining its validity, testified that his subject, after relating his experience, entered into a monastery. In view of the fact that nothing in his narrative is in contradiction to the stand of the Church on the mystery of death and the life beyond death, we feel it beneficial to reprint this article as a separate publication." [From the inside cover of the issue of Orthodox Life, from which this is taken]

A.D.1828; Saint innocent of Alaska visits the remote island of Akun and experiences something otherworldly...

"...when a person returns to the state in which he was before the fall, animals again approach him without fear.” -St Paisios

The final chapters of St John's earthly sojourn and his place in the Kingdom to come...

An account of a normal man, much like anyone of us... In 1916, Archbishop Nikon, a member of the Holy Synod, reprinted this writing in his publication "Trinity Pages" with the following comments: "in regard to this narrative, in due time, we had correspondence with its author, who, after ascertaining its validity, testified that his subject, after relating his experience, entered into a monastery. In view of the fact that nothing in his narrative is in contradiction to the stand of the Church on the mystery of death and the life beyond death, we feel it beneficial to reprint this article as a separate publication." [From the inside cover of the issue of Orthodox Life, from which this is taken]

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." The life and works of Grandfather Dobri Dobrev.

The life of Saint Alexander Schmorell and The White Rose...

Saint Macarius said, 'Walking in the desert one day, I found the skull of a dead man..."

An account of a normal man, much like anyone of us... In 1916, Archbishop Nikon, a member of the Holy Synod, reprinted this writing in his publication "Trinity Pages" with the following comments: "in regard to this narrative, in due time, we had correspondence with its author, who, after ascertaining its validity, testified that his subject, after relating his experience, entered into a monastery. In view of the fact that nothing in his narrative is in contradiction to the stand of the Church on the mystery of death and the life beyond death, we feel it beneficial to reprint this article as a separate publication." [From the inside cover of the issue of Orthodox Life, from which this is taken]

"God wants people to call me crazy and a fool." -Haralambi

The life of Saint Alexander Schmorell and The White Rose...

A forgetful man visits Saint John Colobos, Saint Macarius is slandered, and barbarians attack Scetis. ___ Scetis, also known as Wadi El Natrun, was an ancient monastic settlement in the Egyptian desert, founded in the 4th century by Saint Macarius the Great, where the earliest monks lived in solitude and prayer.

The life of Saint Alexander Schmorell and The White Rose...

The 5th century dawns over Rome. In a grand senator’s villa, a young woman named Eusebia—destined to become Xenia—lives.... --- Stories of Saints are audio-dramatizations from the lives of Saints. This episode is based on St Demetrius of Rostov's hagiography found here: https://hvcbookstore.com/The-Great-Collection-of-the-Lives-of-Saints

The life of Saint Alexander Schmorell and The White Rose...

The ascetic fathers and mothers of old define the cause of spiritual disease as the "passions". Written by Death to the World: https://shop.deathtotheworld.com/products/issue-30

It's the dawn of the 20th Century and a young girl is attending a funeral in the city of Anapa, in the Russian Empire.

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36

Part 2 of our mini-series based on the life of Saint Maria of Paris

Final part of our mini-series based on the life of Saint Maria of Paris

It's the dawn of the 20th Century and a young girl is attending a funeral in the city of Anapa, in the Russian Empire.

A dark shadow looms over the empire while Saints Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompey, Zeno, Alexander, Theodore and 36 others stand firmly in Christ... --- Stories of Saints are audio-dramatizations from the lives of Saints. This episode is based on St Demetrius of Rostov's hagiography found here: https://hvcbookstore.com/The-Great-Collection-of-the-Lives-of-Saints

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."

Desert Fathers are the early Christian hermits whose practice of asceticism in the Egyptian desert formed the basis of Christian monasticism. Following the example of Jesus' life of poverty, service, and self-denial, these early monks devoted themselves to vows of austerity, prayer, and work.

A.D. 1959; various inhabitants of Lesvos, Greece experience vivid dreams about certain relics...

Malchos, an early desert father, ventures from his brotherhood and meets harsh trials along the way... Read from The Lives of the Great Desert fathers published by St. Anthony's Monastery: https://stanthonysmonastery.org/products/the-lives-of-the-great-desert-fathers

A.D.1974: In the midst of the oppressive Soviet Union, a future missionary is born... Part 1 of our mini-series on the life of Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev

A.D. 1995; a certain Hieromonk sees something in his dream...

A.D.1991: The Soviet Union is officially dissolved and a future martyr begins his ministry... Part 2 of our mini-series on the life of Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev.

To those looking in from the outside, her eccentricities and struggles look meaningless and unnecessary. But to those around her, she inspires a deeper sense of asceticism. Based on the article by John Sanidopoulos https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2017/08/saint-maria-ivanovna-of-diveyevo-fool.html

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Written by the Saint John of Kronstadt press https://orthodoxbooks.com/

A.D.2009: A martyr is made Finale of our mini-series on the life of Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev.

-and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind. Written by King Solomon

A.D. 280, the air in Nicomedia hangs thick with summer heat. The streets buzz. In the home of Dorotheos and Evsevia, however, peace dwells like incense... (Part 1 of 2)

A.D. 1959; various inhabitants of Lesvos, Greece experience vivid dreams about certain relics...

A.D.1881, Saint Matrona is born blind... but grows up to see more than most.

A.D. 300, Saint Kyriaki's parents are martyred, while she faces trials beyond imagination...

A.D. 1923: not yet a year into the formation of the USSR, mounted police arrive in a small village with orders to shut down the Churches...