Tag: Nicholas Kasatkin

Eulogy for St. Nicholas of Japan by St. Alexander Hotovitzky

Feb 16, 2012

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by

Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

St. Nicholas Kasatkin, the missionary bishop of Japan, died 100 years ago today. He was remarkably well known in America, where both secular periodicals and Russian Church publications chronicled his ministry. The official newsletter of the Russian Mission was the Vestnik, known in English as the Russian Orthodox American Messenger and edited by Fr. Alexander…