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Vol. 53, No. 6 (317) November-December, 2017
New Hiero-confessor Victor, Bishop of Glazov
Compiled by Abbot Damascene (Orlovsky)
This issue of The Orthodox Word
is dedicated to the life and struggles of an uncompromising confessor
of Orthodoxy who served the Church during the perilous first two decades
after the Russian Revolution. Born in 1878, Bishop Victor became a monk
at the age of twenty-five. He labored as a missionary and then as a
monastic superior, until he was
consecrated a bishop in 1919. From that time on he began to defend the
Church against various threats, both from without and from within. For this
he suffered imprisonments and exiles,
yet he never lost his peace of soul and was a great encouragement and
consolation to others.
This life of St. Victor was compiled by Russia’s foremost martyrologist,
Abbot Damascene (Orlovsky).
This
issue also includes The Orthodox Word Index for 2017.
