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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Saintly Royals Sunday

St Alexander Nevski
Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev and Vladimir
Champion of early Russian power, victor over the Germans and Swedes who helped pave the way for the foundation of the Russian Empire

2 comments:

  1. At the risk of pimping my own blog but on a related note, the Russian Orthodox Church commemorated 400 years of the Imperial Dynasty on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul with a Patriarchal Liturgy in the Imperial crypt. See...
    http://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/2013/07/liturgy-for-feast-of-holy-apostles-and.html

    They have uploaded the entire service.

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  2. Nice to see St Alexander Nevsky mentioned here !
    He was REALLY great.

    Regarding the above, the Soviet-originated Moscow Patriarchate
    is some shadow of the REAL Russian Orthodox Church.

    I saw that link provided above elsewhere but would not look at it.
    These are the equivalent of imposters, not bona fide hierarchs.
    Just to clarify for readers who don't know the background of the
    Stalin-founded "Moscow Patriarchate".

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