Lives of the Saints of Rus'

" Rejoice, O faithful realm of Rus' ! Rejoice, O right-believing Prince Vladimir, most rich! Rejoice, O chosen Olga! For ye were our first mediators before the master of all, the initiators of Orthodoxy, and guides to the True Faith! Rejoice, every place and land and city nurtured by the citizens of the kingdom of heaven! These saints have been shown to be beacons for our souls! With the radiance of miracles, and by deeds and signs, they have shone forth mystically upon all the ends of the earth. And they now entreat Christ for the salvation of our souls." - Doxasticon to All Saints of Rus' Royal princes and fools for Christ. Holy hierarchs and secluded hermits. Missionaries and martyrs. The choir of saints of Holy Rus' represents the fruit of the Holy Spirit brought forth over a millennium of Christian life. This inheritance has enriched and edified not only the saints' own kinsmen, but the whole world through the zealous missionary efforts of the Russian Church. This synaxarion organizes the lives of a multitude of Russian saints by their days of commemoration, with those commemorated from July to December in this second volume. AUTHOR: Seraphim F. Englehardt is a freelance translator and editor and holds degrees in History and Theology as well as a MA in Russian Language and Literature. He has translated classics of Russian spiritual literature such as How to Live a Holy Life, by Metropolitan Gregory (Postnikov), and St. Theophan the Recluse's commentary on Psalm 118 as well as for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1977- 1979. Nun Taisia was born in 1896 in the town of Raczki, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. Graduating from the Moscow Institute for Noble Maidens in 1916, she fled from the Bolshevik Revolution with her family to Germany, and finally settled in France in 1924. Having been tonsured a rassophore nun in 1946, she entered the Holy Protection Convent in Bussy-en-Othe in 1952, where she fulfilled obediences translating Orthodox books, writing spiritual literature, and compiling lives of the saints until her repose in 1995. She is best known for this latter obedience, for which she is remembered by. SELLING POINTS: . This is an exhaustive compilation of the lives of Orthodox saints of ancient Rus', which includes modern-day Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.