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An Orthodox saint from Gary, Indiana
The Northwest Indiana Times recently published an article on St. Varnava Nastic, who was born in Gary, Indiana in 1914. St. Varnava was the first person baptized in St. Sava Orthodox Church, which was…
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An update on the “Most Influential” project
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced an ongoing project to create a list of the most influential people in American Orthodox history. In that article, I laid down some ground rules: The person…
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St. John comes to Chicago, 1895
This article was originally published one year ago, on November 2, 2009. This past weekend, those of us on the New Calendar celebrated the feast day of St. John Kochurov, the Russian New Martyr…