Some English saints may be included in Russian church calendar

Interfax | June 6, 2007

London, June 6, Interfax – The need to include the names of some early Christian English saints in the Russian Orthodox church calendar was voiced during a conference at Diocese of Sourozh, Archpriest Mikhail Dudko of the Russian Cathedral of the Dormition in London, has told Interfax.

Rev. Andrew Phillips, an expert in hagiography well known in the Orthodox England and rector of the church of St. John of Shanghai, noted in his remarks that Great Britain was not normally seen as ‘a country of sainthood’, while it was the native land for over 300 glorified enlighteners, martyrs and ascetics who dedicated their lives to God and the Church.

Father Andrew reminded the conference of the forgotten pages of history which link Russia and England and of the fact that Yury Dolgoruky, the founder of Moscow, was half English and his mother was a daughter of an English king.

The priest also recalled the English roots of the Holy Protomartyr Elizabeth Fyodorovna, a granddaughter Queen Victoria. Sts. Martha and Mary’s Convent founded by Princess Elizabeth could in due course become an English church representation in Moscow.

Bishop Yelisey of Bogorodsk, in his turn, reported that the Diocese of Sourozh had already initiated the inclusion of nine English saints in the Russian Orthodox church calendar and that they can be included in the lists of saints for church-wide veneration in the nearest future.

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2 thoughts on “Some English saints may be included in Russian church calendar”

  1. When I visited the London cathedral in 1985 there was a beautiful icon in the nave of all the saints of Britain they could fit in it. I wish it were available in the US.

  2. Some English saints may be included in Russian church calendar

    This seems one example of Godly reconciliation

    [versus, “Self-styled reconciler: I am both Muslim and Christian”]

    I am reading a tract of a Professor Walther, 1881. This sounds reliable:

    False teachers have at all times endeavored to shift and misstate the actual controverted point in the doctrinal controversies stirred up by them.

    and,

    The teachers of the pure doctrine, however, have always above all things stated precisely the actual controverted point in question, whenever controversies had arisen.

    I suppose it is the old Wisdom. State what you affirm, and what you deny. Above all things ‘putting on charity.’ That is, to attempt to state other’s views with the words and in the manner in which they would approve.

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