New Orthodox Saints - 08/03/16 11:02 AM
Last week, the UOC-MP glorified Saint Ioann of the Holy Mountain of Athos (Vyshensky).
This year marks the 1000th anniversary of the relationship between Kyivan Rus' and the Holy Mountain. A special icon has been written with the forty or so East Slavic Saints who lived as monastics on Aghion Oros and this was consecrated in Kyiv, brought there by a Ukrainian monk of St Panteleimon Monastery of Athos (he said half of the monks at the Monastery are Ukrainian who pray daily for their homeland).
St Ioann Vyshensky was a famous writer of the 17th century who lived on Mt Athos for forty years in a mountain cave (which is today preserved for visitors). The Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko wrote a poem about him (which we spent a lot of time studying in Ukrainian Saturday school . . .).
St Ioann Vyshensky wrote polemical works against the Union of Brest, among other works. He sometimes visited his homeland and was particularly close to the Manjava Skete.
He has always been a figure dear to all Ukrainians, Eastern Catholics included and I am particularly very happy that he has been glorified. Today, I will enshrine an icon of him in my icon corner .
Also, the UOC-MP will canonize a Metropolitan of Kyiv a saint - St Ioanniky (+1900). Metropolitans of Kyiv automatically become Archimandrites of the Kyivan Caves Lavra - the mother of all monastic communities throughout Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
St Ioanniky reposed in the Lord as a member of the Holosiyivsky Skete of the Lavra.
May these new Saints intercede for us!
Alex
This year marks the 1000th anniversary of the relationship between Kyivan Rus' and the Holy Mountain. A special icon has been written with the forty or so East Slavic Saints who lived as monastics on Aghion Oros and this was consecrated in Kyiv, brought there by a Ukrainian monk of St Panteleimon Monastery of Athos (he said half of the monks at the Monastery are Ukrainian who pray daily for their homeland).
St Ioann Vyshensky was a famous writer of the 17th century who lived on Mt Athos for forty years in a mountain cave (which is today preserved for visitors). The Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko wrote a poem about him (which we spent a lot of time studying in Ukrainian Saturday school . . .).
St Ioann Vyshensky wrote polemical works against the Union of Brest, among other works. He sometimes visited his homeland and was particularly close to the Manjava Skete.
He has always been a figure dear to all Ukrainians, Eastern Catholics included and I am particularly very happy that he has been glorified. Today, I will enshrine an icon of him in my icon corner .
Also, the UOC-MP will canonize a Metropolitan of Kyiv a saint - St Ioanniky (+1900). Metropolitans of Kyiv automatically become Archimandrites of the Kyivan Caves Lavra - the mother of all monastic communities throughout Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
St Ioanniky reposed in the Lord as a member of the Holosiyivsky Skete of the Lavra.
May these new Saints intercede for us!
Alex