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| | Valaam Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Valaam was the most important monastery of the Finnish Orthodox Church. | | | The liturgic language was changed from Church Slavonic to Finnish, and the liturgic calendar from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. | | | In 1917 Finland became independent, and the Finnish Orthodox Church became autonomous under the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, as previously it had been a part of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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| | Nordic Travel. Karelia :: Sights and Maps - Valaam |
| | At the beginning of the 20th century the Valaam Monastery became one of the wealthiest Russian Monasteries, comprising a kind of a small state with 13 smaller monasteries under control. | | | At the beginning of the 20th century the Valaam Monastery became on of the wealthiest Russian Monasteries, comprising a kind of a small state with 13 smaller monasteries under control. | | | For many years the Monastery was a religious and cultural center of Russia supported by Russian Tzars and the Russian Church. |
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| | The Valaam monastery :: Today |
| | Now young people with a difficult life quite often come to the monastery to take their first steps in the Church, so, currently, the primary task is to bring the young brothers up in the spirit of the gospel commandments, the holy fathers’ spiritual heritage and monastic and common church traditions. | | | Restoring the monastery was difficult at first the brothers had to stay in the public hotel of Valaam locality, conducting long divine services in the lower church of the Saviour-Transfiguration Cathedral, whose darkened and wet walls reminded of decades of abomination of desolation, having reigned in this holy place. | | | The Monastery life routine is based on the Typicon and the Valaam rules using living experience of the best athonite monasteries, that have kept the holy fathers’ monastic tradition undamaged. |
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| | The Valaam monastery :: Cloister history |
| | With the restoration of the Valaam Monastery interest is reviving in its history, its deep study in the context of the richest heritage of scientific historical thought, memorials of old Russian literature, church tradition and divine worship texts. | | | The founders of the Holy-Transfiguration Valaam Monastery, saint Sergius and Herman, according to Church tradition, were Greek priest monks that came to the Great Novgorod lands in the 10 | | | According to the Valaam monastery tradition, in old times heathens lived on Valaam worshiping Baal (Beles) deity. |
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| | Wetlands Project Promises Clean Water For Historic Valaam Island |
| | Valaam is not the only place in Russia with such problems, but the contrast between the beauty of the stone churches and the terrible state of the toilet facilities makes the problem all the more striking. | | | The glory of the monastery grew and attracted pilgrims and new brotherhoods that built new, smaller and secluded monasteries on different islands of the archipelago. | | | Immediately after the Revolution, Valaam survived the collapse of the Russian Orthodox Church because it remained part of Finland, but then the Lutheran Church insisted on changing the canon of the orthodox services. |
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| | Valaam, More Beauty Than Tranquility |
| | Valaam, regarded as one of the strictest monasteries in the Russian Orthodox Church, has survived many trials in the past, including wars, fires and epidemics. | | | As he spoke, prayers could be heard from the cathedral, where believers, fervently crossing themselves, flocked on August 19 to celebrate Transfiguration Day, commemorating a Biblical event when Jesus appeared shining before his disciples. | | | As hundreds of visitors spill out of ferries every day, it is not difficult to draw Biblical comparisons with the traders and moneychangers who set up shop in the temple of Jerusalem and incurred the wrath of Jesus. |
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| | Segodnia 15Jul96 |
| | Apparently the monastery, which tradition says was founded by hermits in the tenth century who were trying to preserve uncorrupted the Orthodox tradition and was known for its strict regimen, will be developing along its own traditional path and after several years only genuine pilgrims will be able to come to the island. | | | Of the thirteen churches of the monastery complex, as yet only the church of the Dormition of the Mother of God has been restored. | | | In 1940, at the time of the Soviet-Finland war, the Valaam monks left the islands,...and the previous shrine was taken to Finland along with other sacred objects. |
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| | LADOGA KARELIA and VALAAM ARCHIPELAGO |
| | Among the Valaam monks glorified by the Church was Saint Herman of Alaska, canonized in 1970 by the Orthodox Church in America as the first Orthodox saint of America. | | | According to the old Valaam monastery tradition in the 1 century St. Andrew preaching the gospel visited the archipelago and having destroyed the pagan cult sites set up a stone cross on its rocks. | | | Brief excursion, visit to the church, known as one of the most beautiful in the monastery. |
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| | Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of Christ, a stavropegial monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, is one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in the Orthodox world. | | | Founded in AD397 Mor Gabriel is the spiritual home of the estimated 5 million Assyrian Orthodox Christians scattered across the world Until the 12th century, Christians sent their firstborn sons here to train as monks, priests or teachers. | | | Refunded eight years ago on the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, Valaam Monastery has grown to over one hundred brethren in the main monastery, and another hundred plus at its five sketes and seven podvoryes. |
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| | The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - valaam: centuries of rest for the weary |
| | The monastery was re-inaugurated by the Russian Orthodox Church in a mass celebrated by Patriarch Alexy II. | | | With the advent of Perestroika, and the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, efforts were made to establish the monastery of Valaam anew. | | | According to church records, two holy fathers, Saints Sergey and Germain, came to the Valaam archipelago from southeast Europe in the tenth century - even before the conversion of Kievan Rus - to prosthletize the pagan Karelian tribes who worshipped the god Vaal. |
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| | The Valaam Icon of the Mother of God was saved from certain destruction and enshrined in the New Valaam monastery church, where it remains to this day. | | | The Orthodox Church in America is the first autocephalous church that the Valaam Icon of the Mother of God is visiting since it was enshrined in Finland's New Valaam Monastery over 100 years ago. | | | Later the same day, the Archbishop and the Valaam Icon were greeted at the entrance to Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk Monastery, South Canaan, PA, by His Grace, Bishop Tikhon of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; clergy and members of the monastic brotherhood; and numerous faithful. |
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| | Sts. Sergius & Herman |
| | We agreed to come to Valaam together." The Abbot blessed the pannikhida to be served for the repose of the Schema-monk Gregory and all lying in the monastery cemetery, and everyone praised God Who is wondrous in His saints. | | | In 1579 (Feb. 20) the Monastery of Valaam was totally destroyed by militant Scandinavian Lutherans, and all 34 monks and novices were martyred for their faith, their memory being kept by a special day of commemoration at Valaam down to the 20 | | | Valaam, already wounded spiritually, was not destined long to survive this. |
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| | VALAAM |
| | Valaam has long been a place of enormous spiritual significance and influence. | | | For this reason, Valaam has been known as the "Northern Athos." Valaam has contributed to the spiritual formation of numerous Russian saints, who spent some formative years at Valaam and then later became founders of major monasteries all over Russia. | | | The spiritual light of Valaam has long attracted pilgrims, just as the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra Monastery, the Optina Pustyn and the Diveyevo Monastery have, except that, |
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| | Fourth way and sufism - Valaam Monastery, Orthodox Tradition & Symbolism |
| | The Valaam tradition, which came to Finland with the two monks during the 2nd World War died with them. | | | After the Soviet dissolution Valaam and many other monasteries in the former USSR have been activated and restauration of the buildings has started together with 'the one thing needful' - the Spiritual Life. | | | There are over 400 civilians on the island, most of them without work and many of them taken to alcohol (that is not to say that there are also many decent families amongst them). |
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| | St. Katherine Orthodox Church: About Orthodoxy |
| | In 1794, missionaries of the Valaam Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived on the island of Kodiak in Alaska. | | | Among this group of missionaries was a young Monk named Herman (now a Saint of the Orthodox Church), who spent 40 years among the natives of Alaska, bringing to them the word of God in their own language and ministering to their needs. |
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| | Hilarion Monastery came to know Vladika Theodore in 1983 and it was in that year that he received us as his spiritual sons. | | | Theodore became a monk of the Valaam Monastery in Finland in 1924 under the spiritual direction of Hieromonk Justinian. | | | Vladika Hilarion became the spiritual son of the holy Russian elder Schema-Archbishop Theodore of Valaam and Pskov. |
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| | Orthodox Book Shop |
| | Aside from well-known liturgical texts there are the prayers of St. Sergiy of Radonezh to the Mother of God, taken from the “Life” of Epifaniy the Wise, and the Magnification to the Intercessor for the Land of Russia from the service of the Baptism of Russia. | | | The programme offers traditional Russian Church melodies and chants various Russian monasteries, and the pealing of the bells of the big Lavre belfry and the belfry of the Church of the Holy Spririt. | | | A virtual tour of the Lavra with many photos of its churches, icons, frescoes and monuments along with recordings of ecclesiastical hymns sung by the choir of the Lavra and Moscow Theological Schools under the direction of archimandrite Matfei (Mormil). |
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| | Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, sanctified on Friday the central cathedral of the Transfiguration ... |
| | The Valaam monastery was one of the first monasteries that were given back to the Russian Orthodox Church at the end of the 20th century. | | | Up till now services were conducted only on the first floor, in the church devoted to the Reverend Sergius and Gherman of Valaam. | | | Monasticism is being revived as well in six hermit communities situated all over the picturesque Valaam Archipelago |
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| | VALAAM. The site of the Valaam Monastery - TicketsOfRUSSIA.ru |
| | On Yule the 21st, 2000, in the day of the Feast of Kazan icon of the Mother of God, the icon of Tsar-martyr Nikolai the 2nd Alexandrovich arrived from S.-Petersburg to the Holy land of Valaam. | | | On jubilee year 2000 His Holiness the Patriarch had visited Valaam monastery the tenth time, first and second visits took place in his childhood: in 1938 and 1939. | | | Elder Antipa had been tonsured with a name Leonty in 30-s of XIX century by the Abbot of the Moldavian monastery "Braz" archimandrite Dimitry, who later blessed him to come to Afon. |
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| | The Monastery of St. John |
| | The Holy Monastery of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was established by His Grace the Right Reverend TIKHON, Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco and the West of the Orthodox Church in America, at Saint Eugene's Hermitage in Point Reyes Station, California. | | | The Brotherhood strives to live a traditional monastic life informed by the practice of Valaam Monastery and the Holy Mountain. | | | Selling high-quality vestments and church goods from Valaam and other suppliers in Russia |
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http://www.monasteryofstjohn.org
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| | Life of Valaam Monk Herman, |
| | It is the account of this disciple, Gerasim Ivanova-Zyrianov, that was given to the Abbot of Valaam Monastery. | | | IN 1793 AN ECCLESIASTICAL MISSION was composed in Valaam Monastery and sent to preach the Word of God to the natives of Northwestern America, who ten years before had come under Russian rule. | | | In that same year, 1864, he wrote inquiries to Hierarch Innocent, Archbishop of Kamchatka and the Aleutians; to Bishop Peter, who had previously resided in New Archangelsk and was a vicar of the Kamchatka diocese; and to the disciple of Monk Herman, Gerasim Zyrianov. |
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| | The Blessed Seraphim Hermitage - Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia, Monk Abel "the Prophet" of Valaam |
| | May the prayers of the righteous Confessor, the Valaam Elder and Prophet Abel, strengthen us last Christians to continue the fervent preaching of God's glory as long as the times are still favorable for this. | | | To live alone in the desert was the ultimate dream of mystically inclined monks of Valaam. | | | However, the desert-dweller overcame them manfully, for which God gave him spiritual discernment and insight, as a result of which he began to prophesy. |
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| | Touchstone Archives: A Finland Diary |
| | For years the Valaam monastic community was deeply divided, part of the community on the old calendar, part on the new. | | | Still another irritant for the community at the revived Valaam in Russia is that the monks who fled the bombing in 1940 carried away nearly everything smaller than bell towers. | | | One of the monastery’s vocations is to be a place where non-Orthodox people can learn about Orthodox Christianity. |
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| | Valaam Monastery. Heyday of monastery at Abbot Damaskin - TicketsOfRUSSIA.ru |
| | After taking monastic vows in 1825, he stayed in the skete of All Saints, for that was the will of the prior, and later left to live in the desert. | | | Father Damaskin was not only a wise spiritual instructor, but also a talanted builder and architect, agronomist, meteorologist and botanist (he was the first to start studying the climate and nature of Valaam), writer and bibliophile, historian and economist (the monastery treasury, empty before, in five years grew by 77,000 roubles, mostly due to donations). | | | In 1819 he reached Valaam, and the sagacious elder Euphimy, the disciple of the elders Feodor and Leonid, foreseeing the future of the young man, bowed before him. |
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| | The first of Christ‘s disciples, St. Andrew the First-Called went preaching in Scythian and Slavic lands and having visited Novgorod left for Valaam where he destroyed pagan altars and erected a stone cross. | | | Often these places are separated by Nature from the surroundings. | | | Sometimes the name of the island is attributed to the name of the pagan god Baal (Veles), or the biblical prophet Balaam. |
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| | A programme of original chants from the Valaam Monastery, one of the traditional pillars of the Russian Orthodox Church. | | | On this CD one of Russia\'s most renowned Church male choirs performs a beautiful programme of Church hymns and chants. | | | Male Choir of the Valaam Singing Culture Institute |
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| | The Valaam Patericon Book of Days |
| | Thus, Valaam’s Saints and Elders are our inheritance, having great power to invigorate the spiritual life in our country, which is in need of heavenly protection today. | | | This Book of Days contains over fifty photographs and icons of Valaam’s Elders, both renowned and little-known, as well as of Saints who have been connected with this great monastic center. | | | We in America are indebted to Valaam Monastery, which sent the first Orthodox missionaries to the New World, among whom was St. |
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| | ipedia.com: Herman of Alaska Article |
| | Herman of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox monk from the Valaam Monastery in Russia, who traveled with eight other monks in 1793 to bring the Gospel to the native Aleuts and Eskimos in the Aleutian Islands. | | | As part of the Russian colonization of the Americas Russians had been exploring and trading there since at least 1740. |
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| | Pravda.RU Valaam Island’s dwellers receive a 60-flat house |
| | The house was built according to the Patriarchy Programme of Orthodox Nations Unity’s International Fund, which is devoted to revival of Valaam Spaso-Preobrazhensk monastery. | | | In the same year first monks arrived to the monastery to revive it. | | | According to some sources, the Valaam cloister was founded in first half of 10th century by two Greek missionaries Sergy and German. |
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| | THE OPENING OF THE THIRD ALL-CHURCH EXHIBITION “ORTHODOX RUSSIA” + Православие.Ru |
| | The basic sections of an exhibition: "modern service of Russian Orthodox Church", "church supplies", "economic activities of monasteries and parishes of Russian Orthodox Church", "an orthodox way of life". | | | The Russian Book Union", "Publishing programs of the Government of Moscow", "The Educational Periodical Press ", and also stands of Publishing Council of Russian Orthodox Church, publishers "Olma-Press", "White City", "Lepta-Press", "The Orthodox Encyclopedia", publishing houses of Danilov monastery, the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra and other Orthodox and secular publishers. | | | During 10 years the Holy-Transfiguration Valaam monastery spiritually supports military units |
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| | Internet Christian Orthodox Links |
| | The Philotheou Monastery Project: Manuscripts from Agion Oros (Mt. Athos) | | | Raifa Holy Virgin Monastery (Tatarstan, Russia) Vocal Quartet | | | Hilandar monastery's documents scanned in microform from OHSU library |
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| | VR-21.OldValaamMonastery |
| | This monastery, that had been a very important center of Russian spiritual life, is being rebuilt: monastic life is strong, and many young men are coming here to enter the monastery. | | | Valaam Monastery, with its many sketes and hermitages had been one of the most influential and important monasteries in northern Russia. | | | Valaam is both the name of the large archipelago of islands at the northern end of Lake Ladoga, and the name of the largest island, where the main Transfiguration Monastery is located. |
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| | Their works and prayers initiated the name of Transfiguration of Christ, one of the most principial cloisters of today’s Russia. | | | The monastery’s history includes many falls and rises which have taken place during ten centuries. | | | In the X-th century the first monks - Sergiy and German came to Valaam “from the orient lands”. |
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| | Liturgica.com Product Information |
| | From Rising of the Sun till its setting the Name of the Lord is to be praised | | | You have received the Holy Blessing from Heaven | | | The Angels Sing Thy Resurrection, O Christ The Savior; Putevoi chant |
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| | Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director: Valaam Monastery |
| | The Valaam Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration of the Saviour has recently been revived by the Russian Orthodox Church. | | | Notable quotation: "Art is passion, but I have to fight passion. | | | (One would have to make a pilgrimage to the monastery to purchase their recordings, it seems.) |
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| | Pictures of Finland. |
| | The main church of the New Valaam Monastery. | | | During my first trip to the lake Pyhaselka in Joensuu, this family invited me to join their camp fire. | | | In the first half of the 20th century, many lakes in Finland were connected by canals for timber transport. |
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| | Please rate the link The Valaam Monastery between one and ten, with ten being tops. | | | You can post your questions, suggestions, ideas, news on Slavophilia Bulletin Board Join Slavophilia Forums |
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| | St. Pantaleon's relics were taken to pieces and surfaced in many parts of the Christian world. | | | The relic along with more than 300 specimens of Christian art of the 10th-20th centuries will be displayed at the exhibit for about a week and then will be put at Ss. | | | In 2004, it was acquired by a benefactor and handed over to the Valaam Monastery. |
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| | Pravda.RU Patriarch Alexis II to visit Valaam island |
| | On July 11th Alexis II will take part in a festive religious procession in honour of the monastery's official holiday and that of its founders, i.e. | | | This revamped building will house the insular administration, a police station, a library, a post office and the administration of the Valaam nature preserve. | | | According to the St. Petersburg diocese, Alexis II first came to the monastery as a little boy in 1938. |
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| | Pravda.RU Valaam to turn to publicly closed island. 65 families to move out on the mainland |
| | Not all people wish to leave the island in spite of the prospective to get comfortable apartments. | | | The ceremony sanctified the new apartment building built within the framework of Patriarch’s program of the International Fund for the unity of orthodox nations. | | | According to the achieved agreement between the religious and municipal authorities, the local population of the island and its administration are supposed to move to the mainland. |
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| | valaam monastery - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "valaam monastery" is defined. | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word valaam monastery: |
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| | Kizhi - Valaam - Solovetsky Petrozavodsk Kizhi |
| | This Tour is no longer offered by InfoHub. | | | Optional (for extra pay): boat trip to the Big Zayatsky Island, visit ancient sacred places - magic labyrinths, burial mounds, solar signs. | | | Excursion to the Solovetsky Monastery (XV) - central Cathedral, Kremlin' walls and towers, history of Soviet Gulag Camp. |
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