Glorified in America: Laborers in the New World from Saint Alexis to Elder Ephraim

Glorified in America: Laborers in the New World from Saint Alexis to Elder EphraimUtilizing both words and images this book animates the lives of a selection of holy men who labored on the North American continent in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to give birth to the Orthodox Church in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Some of these have been formally glorified as saints and others may yet be. This book is much more than a simple historical account or retelling of their lives and particular service in North

be it instruction or contrition

Sermon on Reading Spiritual Works

and yet with a passionate concern for the story which removes the book far from the dry and dusty character of too much "history"

Elder Theodore accepted all trials and tribulations humbly

” and his prophetic “Great Diveyevo Mystery”—which

Patriarch of Moscow

Archbishop of Chernigov

a young lady had a sudden glimpse of the immortality of her soul

06 – Akathist Hymn to the Martyred Archdeacon Nicephorus Cantacuzene

Included here is St Ignatius’s “Homily on Death

first edition Paperbound

something which can be made part of one's morning or evening prayers