Orthodox convert actor

[Matthew]

Actually I am not sure if it was ekaterinburg our the other siberian city they were in before that. But it was in their last year whilst in captivity, if I remember correctly.

[joasia]

Barbara, I'm referring to the old version movie of St. Alexander Nevsky. There's a full movie on Youtube with English subtitles.

Very good points made, all around. I can't think of anything else to add to it.

[Barbara]

Icxypion, yes I was thinking it wasn't Ekaterinberg, but I couldn't think where else, so i wrote it
tentatively.
Tobolsk ! Is that the city ? Site of the shrine of the wonderful St John Maximovitch of Tobolsk, ancestor of St John Maximovitch ??

I actually really enjoy all these memoirs. I just haven't caught up on such books which appeared in the last maybe decade or so.

Joasia, thank you for this link !
I got as far as "the soviet man and woman" and the computer collapsed, probably at the awful sight !
I will try again later.

I have one or two more things to include about Ostrov before leaving this topic.

[joasia]

Barbara,

There's another Russian movie I learned about called Priest (not the American movie). But, I can't find the full movie.

I'd like to hear your other thoughts about Ostrov. Do you know what sin Fr. Job committed? Fr. Anatoly asked him why did Cain kill Abel? Is it because Job was jealous of Anatoly? What does that black guck stuff that Fr. Anatoly put on the door handle mean?

[Barbara]

Hi Joasia,

Priest sounds interesting. Was it made in the last 4 or 5 years, maybe ?
If you hear more, please let us know so we can watch, too.

As for Ostrov, I almost watched it the other night after this discussion here.
Let me refresh my memory better. I remember these scenes, but I want to see the context
a little better. I was so caught up in it ; but it's been years since I watched it and I only
saw it once. Let me pull it out sometime soon to go over it again.

I really enjoy it because I traveled all the way up to a VERY remote Island in the North,
and it was really neat.

[Maybe a True Orthodox monastery could be started there ? I tried unsuccessfully to persuade a priest to go there
and revive the one that had been there centuries before.
Any other True Orthodox could think about starting a community there...
though the MP would not like it...]

[Archimandrit Nilos]

This is a pseudo-convert actor: he is member of the fallen "World Orthodoxy", of the graceless New-Calendar Pseudo-Greek Orthodox Church, unfortunately.
http://orthodoxfilmmakersandartists.blo ... ckson.html

[Archimandrit Nilos]

Here I give the example of Fr. Nikolaj Bjerring, from Danish birth, a convert from Roman-Catholicism to the Russian Orthodox Church in the 19th century.By the refusal of the First Vatican Council 1870 he was coming to the Orthodoxy. Priest for the German speaking Orthodox in U.S.A. But he was not successful with his mission. He was calling back from the Holy Synod to Russia. He has not obeyed. He was after an apostate from the True Orthodox faith, and is a Presbyterian minister, for a time also a free-mason, after returned to Roman-Catholicisme and died as a layman. A tragic way of this man with first a good will and after a so deep fall into the apostasy. http://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicholas_Bjerring