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Number of Blossarys: 95
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Saint Dimitry of Rostov was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon ...
Boris and Gleb were the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after the Christianization of the country. According to the two 11th century Lives of Boris and Gleb (ascribed to Nestor the ...
Basil the Blessed is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or "holy fool for Christ". He was born to serfs in December of 1468 or 1469 in Yelokhovo, near Moscow (now in ...
Andrei Rublev (born in the 1360s, died 29 January 1427 or 1430 although 17 October 1428 also commemorated) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes. In ...
Venerable Ambrose of Optina (Russian: Амвросий ОптинскийDecember 5, 1812, Bolshaya Lipovitsa settlement, Tambov guberniya – October 23, 1891) was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, ...
Saint Alexander Schmorell (16 September 1917 in Orenburg, Russia; – 13 July 1943 in Munich) was one of five Munich University students who formed a resistance group known as White Rose (Weiße Rose) ...
