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Michael, TX

I just wanted to send you an email to let you know that the Passion Relics arrived safe & sound this morning. They are more beautiful than the photos shown in the description on your website!

Gretchen, CT

I wanted you to know that the icon you sent “All Seeing Eye” is stunning and moving and remarkable. I am so grateful.

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Thank you so much! I receive everything today! I am so happy! God bless you in this time of war… I am so sorry and I pray for the peace!

Ellen, Washington PA

The icons we have been able to purchase through your store are extremely beautiful and enjoyed and venerated by many in our parish We are so grateful to you for making them available and ask GOD to bless you for making our spiritual lives richer because of them.

Anthony, FL

St. Maximilian Kolbe’s relic has arrived safe and sound. It’s incredible to think such a rare relic is now in my possession. Thank you for the beautiful certificate as well. His relic will be treasured among the rest of the saints I’m blessed to be a custodian of. Hope to deal with you again soon!

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Russian Icon - St Mitrophan, Metropolitan and Wonderworker of Voronezh

Saint Metropolitan Mitrophan became famous as a talented preacher and ascetic, but at the same time - a strict persecutor of the Old Believers. An authoritative archpastor, revered by the Tsar himself, and at the same time an unmercenary person, Saint Mitrophan of Voronezh went down in church history as one of the most controversial figures in Russian church history in the second half of the 17th century. Until the age of forty, the future saint lived in the world: he was married and served as a parish priest in the village of Sidorovskoye near the city of Shuya. Widowed, priest Michael was tonsured with the name Mitrophan in the Zolotnikovsky monastery. In the 1670s, the future bishop was actively involved in the church reform, begun two decades earlier by Patriarch Nikon and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Hegumen Mitrofan toured the villages, identified Old Believers and destroyed the ancient liturgical books. However, to fight the schism, he used not executions and torture as enlightenment in the Western Russian spirit. At the Moscow Council of 1681-1682, in order to fight against the Russian Old Believers and to improve Christian enlightenment, it was decided to increase the number of dioceses. Hegumen Mitrofan was summoned to the capital and on April 2, 1682 was ordained Bishop of Voronezh. With the accession of Peter I, Saint Metrophanes began to support the Tsar in his reforms, although he did not approve of such active Westernization. The saint worked at the Voronezh diocese until his death in 1703. His relics were found and translated in 1832.