Having left the worldly life, ye did follow in the steps of Christ, and having reached great Lake Neva, ye settled there on the island of Valaam, and there ye lived angelic lives; from thence ye were ...

Without Finland, the Valaam Monastery could cease to exist, as we all know how the Soviet authorities treated religious relics, Russia’s President said MOSCOW, January 14. /TASS/. Russia’s ...

In his youth he became a monk, first at the Saint Sergius Hermitage near Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland; while he dwelt there, the most holy Mother of God appeared to him, healing him of a ...

And he considers himself a novice of Valaam Monastery. For him, this is like a return home. But now not as a novice but as First-Hierarch. And with Valaam is connected the sources of the Orthodox ...

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The main vehicle is a recent documentary on top national channel Rossiya 1 about a monastery widely thought to be Mr Putin's favourite - Valaam, on a remote archipelago in northern Lake Ladoga.

"When in the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, the heads of state visited the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God on the grounds of the Smolensk hermitage," BelTA ...