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Aug 28, 20213 min read

Apr 25 Ivan the Terrible's Monk

Today in 1549, Adrian of Ondrusov, an Orthodox monk died after being killed by robbers. Now venerated by the Orthodox church as a saint,...

Jul 6, 20216 min read

July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag

The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...

Jun 23, 20215 min read

June 24 The last 'crusade' of Billy Graham

It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...

Jun 22, 20213 min read

June 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in Russia

Today in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...

Jun 11, 20214 min read

June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad

On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...

Jan 30, 20213 min read

Jan 20 - How the Church survived Communist Russia

Today in 1918 the Bolshevik-controlled government enacted a Decree that proclaimed separation of church and state in Russia and deprived...

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