June 14/1 - all the Saints who shone in the Russian land.translated

According to the resolution of the All-Russian Church Council of 1917/1918, on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, it was established to celebrate the memory of All Saints who shone forth in the land of Russia. On this day, the Russian Church glorifies the faces of all the holy saints of God who have shone with the power of faith and deeds of piety on the Russian land. Singing their exploits, the Holy Church asks for their prayerful intercession before God. After their death, the saints do not abandon us with their help; they are our helpers and intercessors, prayer books for our souls. The history of the Russian Church is inseparable from the history of the Russian state. It is not without reason that among the saints glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church are the great noble princes: Vladimir, who baptized Rus', Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy and others. It is not for nothing that in the akathist to the Venerable Sergius, abbot of Radonezh and the wonderworker of all Russia, the holy ascetic is called “a commander given to Russia,” “a luminous luminary in the Orthodox Russian state.” The bright luminaries of the Russian Orthodox Church are such ascetics as St. Theophan the Recluse, St. Seraphim of Sarov, Righteous John of Kronstadt, St. Patriarch Tikhon and many others.

The exploits of Russian saints...