St. Nikolai Velimirovich – A Saint of the Modern World

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Fr. Stephen is a retired Archpriest of the Orthodox Church in America. He is also author of Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, and Face to Face: Knowing God Beyond Our Shame, as well as the Glory to God podcast series on Ancient Faith Radio.



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7 responses to “St. Nikolai Velimirovich – A Saint of the Modern World”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    Too great a post to not comment, but any comment seems to weak to respond to it. I am blessed to know him in as limited a way as I do through my copy of Prayers by the Lake.

  2. Petra Avatar

    It is amazing how there is gentleness and fire in his eyes at the same time.

  3. […] what Carlyle referred to as “imperial analysis”. To illustrate what I mean, go and see Father Stephen’s embedded video of Saint Nikolai Velimirovich, where the saint, at the end of the video, is portrayed in a series of photographs as an aging man, […]

  4. Pravoslavnik Avatar
    Pravoslavnik

    When I watch this video of St. Nikolai, I am reminded of the Roman centurion who stood by the Holy Cross as the earth quaked. “Surely this…was (and is) a saint of God!” The words of St. Nikolai have long been like a cool spring of fresh water for me in the parched desert of these Godless times…

    Holy hierarch, Nikolai, pray to God for us sinners!

  5. Porter Perri Avatar

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  6. Marie Avatar
    Marie

    Powerful! I’m speechless.

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