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Father Robert,

There was a skull in it. I said, �What is this?� He said, �Silouan.� I immediately feel to my knees, and so did everyone else.

As I was reading this I felt my heart fall to its knees with you. Can't expalin it, but thanks for sharing and allowing me to be a part of that awesome gift of God. Guess I will go find out more about the Russian elder Silouan.

Pani Rose

This is what I posted on another topic running here about Archbishop Raya, to me it was so funny and just like him, thought you might enjoy it in case you don't the other thread:

I recently was told of how St. Georges ended up being where it is today. The original church burned down, the people had worked so hard to build it, but Saedna decided the ground that the church was on was not big enough. So Archbishop Raya wanted to rebuild it elsewhere. He found the land, where it is located now, and talked the man that owned it, a real estate agent. Well the man, and not very politely I guess, told him that he wasn't selling that peace of land to any (well the words were not nice at all) Catholic Church. Remember this was in the 1920's, the deep south didn't like Catholics.

Anyway, Saedna has always had a very strong devotion to St. Anne, and this was a time when statues were still in the church, before it was remodeled. He took the life size statue of St. Anne, had a service and burried it the ground. He told St. Anne he would get her out of there, when she got him that land.

Well I am not certain of the time it took, but the amn had a heart attack. He just knew he had been cursed by those Catholics, so he went looking for and found Archbishop Raya and promptly sold him the land. Well Archbisop Raya and the church community had a huge clebration and dug he up out of the ground. And they started building the church.

Today that statue of St. Anne is at EWTN. They said it was so funny when they took her over there. She was standing up in the back of a pick up turck, riding down the road. Everyone was just staring, and they all really enjoyed the ride.

A delightful story, but couldn't possibly have been in the nineteen-twenties. Father Joseph arrived in the USA in the nineteen-fifties. He was consecrated Archbishop in 1968.
Incognitus

YOu are right, the original church was built in the 1920's, I am sorry. I will have to get the date of the new church, don't see my church directory handy right now.

Dear Monk Silouan,

Thank you for your post on the previous page.

In Christ our Lord and Saviour,
Alice