Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs. The martyrs are drawn from every continent and many Christian ...

Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long ... are intertwined with the tumultuous history of the Georgian land. Holy Martyrs, the Brothers ...

November 12/25 marks the commemoration of the righteous monks and laymen buried at Optina Monastery, including the virgin maiden Barbara (1900), the youth George (1994), and the recent martyrs: ...

Above the Abbey’s Great West Door stand ten statues to 20th-century Christian martyrs. This autumn, to mark the 25th anniversary of their installation, a sermon series, ‘The Noble Army of Martyrs’, ...