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Mother Paraskeva (Koralientchuk) 01.04.1919-16.01.2014 Anna Feodorovna Koralientchuk was born April 1st, 1919, in Ukraine, in the Bukovino region, in a family with nine children. The family was well off. M. Paraskeva remembered that her mother ran a shop as well as worked the land. Anna helped out, ...

I will put together a short biography tomorrow, it's after 2 AM now. She had quite an amazing life. She came to Hopovo in her late teens over 70 years ago, and survived the war there and was present when the communist partisans tried to kill the sisters. They were saved on the feast of the Protectio...

We ask your holy prayers for the repose of the soul of our sister, the nun Paraskeva (Koralientchuk), who departed to the Lord this evening, during Matins, when we rang for "Truly it is Meet". She received Holy Communion this morning and was fully conscious. M. Paraskeva was almost 95 year...

Dear Barbara, I've only caught this today. The furnace drive is going very, very slowly. The True Orthodox are not the richest nor the best organized crowd :) , and we don't expect to be able to do this quickly. Right now we're preparing for our Christmas bazaar, taking place in Paris on December 8t...

Metropolitan Daniel was never a bishop in ROCOR, I can vouch for that. He never met Archbishop Seraphim (Doulgoff) who supposedly participated in his consecration. Archbishop Seraphim resided here at the Lesna monastery and by 2001, when this consecration supposedly took place, Archbishop Seraphim w...

The foundation of the monastery was also blessed by St. Ambrose of Optina, and we still keep the prayer rule that he gave Mother Catherine. St. John of Shaghai was not the ruling bishop when the monastery came to France, Bishop Nathaniel (Lvov), a childhood friend of St. Philaret, was. St. John bles...