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Who are the clergy around St. Raphael’s casket?

Mar 23, 2012

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in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity, Saints

On Tuesday, Aram Sarkisian told the story of a mystery photo featuring an Orthodox priest, whom he eventually identified as the Syrian/Antiochian Fr. Job Salloom of Washington, DC. In the course of his investigation, Aram noticed that the mystery priest bore a striking resemblance to a priest in an earlier image — a 1915 group…

Isabel Hapgood: The death and funeral of St. Raphael

Dec 2, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity, Saints

Editor’s note: The following article was written by Isabel Hapgood and appeared in the New York Tribune on March 8, 1915. It is the most complete surviving description of the funeral of St. Raphael, who died on February 27, 1915. Hapgood herself had known St. Raphael for nearly two decades, from the time that he…

To shave or not to shave?

Dec 11, 2009

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

For three tumultuous decades — 1907 to 1938 — Fr. Basil Kerbawy was the dean of St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Cathedral in Brooklyn. Apparently, in 1911, he was having some issues related to his beard, and things got so bad that he wrote to William Gaynor, the mayor of New York. I can’t resist reprinting their…

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Who are the clergy around St. Raphael’s casket?

Isabel Hapgood: The death and funeral of St. Raphael

To shave or not to shave?