21 May 2023, 12:55 UTC≈2,290 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
From the Life of St. Victor of Glazov:
"Immediately after the arrest, the interrogations began. The investigators demanded of Vladyka [Victor] that he implicate other arrestees. For the first eight days of interrogations, he was not permitted to sit or sleep. A protocol with absurd accusations and false testimony was prepared ahead of time, and day after day the interrogators, one after the other, kept repeating the…
Signed Gregory Decapolite
20 May 2023, 02:04 UTC≈1,320 viewsread 8 August 2026 "Altogether, one can divide the Russian Orthodox population in the USSR into the following groups:
The first group of strict and true Orthodox Church people, who for the most part live a spiritual life in the interests of the church, as the Body of Christ. This group has in no way ever recognized and does not recognize the Soviet Patriarchate. This group has completely gone into the catacombs.
The second group cons…
Signed Gregory Decapolite
19 May 2023, 17:19 UTC953 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Archimandrite Michael (Kostiuk) of Kiev! - please see the post immediately above!
Signed Gregory Decapolite
19 May 2023, 17:19 UTC902 viewsread 8 August 2026 Concerning the Martyric death of Archimandrite Michael (Kostiuk) of Kiev:
The Elder often said that no-one would know where his grave would be. And so it turned out. He knew both the day and the hour when they would arrest him. On the eve he said to his novice:
"Tomorrow come with your cassock. We shall have 'guests'!"
He arrived as the Elder had ordered him, suspecting nothing. At the appointed hour the Elder him…
Signed Gregory Decapolite
18 May 2023, 15:27 UTC706 viewsread 8 August 2026 This text is appearing here for the 1st time ever (in non-video format) in the English language!
May we have the holy prayers of the Martyred Bishop Sergius of the Russian Orthodox Catacomb Church!
https://catacombhistory.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-life-of-assassinated-bishop-sergius.html
Signed Gregory Decapolite
17 May 2023, 20:11 UTC672 viewsread 8 August 2026 A text from Professor Andreyev. I don't believe this exists in English YET!
https://eshatologia.org/apostasia/bolshevizm/statii/rech-na-vladimirskom-prazdnike-12-25-iyulia-1954
Signed Gregory Decapolite
17 May 2023, 20:01 UTC750 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
"Orthodox Christians! Stand up against the power of the red Antichrist! Do not listen to anyone's calls to reconcile with him, no matter from whom these calls come! There is no peace between Christ and Satan. By the authority given to me by God, I absolve and release all believers from the oath given to the Soviet self-proclaimed government, for Christians are not subjects of Satan. With the power given to me from Go…
Signed Gregory Decapolite
16 May 2023, 21:40 UTC608 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Saints Daniel Bondarenko, Onesimus, and Arsenius Kordi (this is the same Archimandrite Arsenius who is mentioned in the Life of St. Joseph of Petrograd and who dug out the underground church at which Vladyka served in Alma Ata - see the Life of St. Joseph of Petrograd in "Russia's Catacomb Saints")
Note: I'm not sure who is who in this picture. The names are not necessarily in any order.
Signed Gregory Decapolite
16 May 2023, 13:12 UTC583 viewsread 8 August 2026 Woe and alas! - may this not occur to any of us!
A. V. Krivolutsky, the son of the well-known Catacomb Confessor Fr. Vladimir Krivolutsky, writes:
"... we are reminded of a story about one Staretz, likewise being a bustling and very paternal individual, who was firmly convinced that the basis of his assiduous activities was his genuine love of his neighbor. This tireless staretz believed in this up to his final day…
Signed Gregory Decapolite
15 May 2023, 21:13 UTC≈1,160 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
In general one may say that the unparalleled sufferings of contemporary Russia have caused many of us to be rather too loose with our use of the words “martyr” and “confessor”. These words have specific meaning for Orthodox Christians: they refer to those who consciously suffer and die for Christ and His True Church, not for “humanity” or “Christianity in general” or even for “Orthodoxy” if it is not true Orthodoxy.
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Signed Gregory Decapolite
14 May 2023, 18:00 UTC524 viewsread 8 August 2026 A very interesting assessment and one supported by many Saints:
"Patriarch Tikhon had predicted that a critical point would be reached 'when the hierarchy of the Church breaks faith with Christ and delivers the spiritual freedom of the Church up to the Soviet government.' The hierarchs who founded the Catacomb Church saw this point actually reached in the Declaration of Metropolitan Sergei. In 1927, Metropolitan Ser…
Signed Gregory Decapolite
14 May 2023, 16:15 UTC468 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
St. Philaret of NY! - please see the post immediately above!
Signed Gregory Decapolite
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