Св. Йоан Яків, відзначений в Аллегані: митрополит Миколай представив зв’язок святого з румунами в СШАпереклад
Metropolitan Nicolae of the two Americas served on Sunday at the Romanian Monastery in Allegan, USA, where he highlighted the connection of Saint John Jacob the Hozevit with the Romanians overseas.
The service was occasioned by the anticipated celebration of St. John Jacob, the second patron of the Monastery of the Covering of the Mother of God in the state of Michigan.
His Eminence recalled the correspondence of Saint John Jacob with Archbishop Victorin Ursache, the pastor of the Romanians in America between 1966 and 2001.
Archbishop Victorin is the one who recommended St. John Jacob for ordination as a hierodeacon and then as a hieromonk in 1947, when he was the superior of the Romanian Settlements in the Holy Land.
Після хіротонії святий Іоанн Яків служив ігуменом румунського скиту святого Іоанна Предтечі в Йорданській долині. In the five years that he assumed this obedience, St. John formed a spiritual friendship with Archimandrite Victorin, a friendship that continued after Father Victorin's departure to America in 1956, as evidenced by the correspondence between the two.
Як повідомляє Митрополія, в єпархіальному архіві в Чикаго виявлено кілька листів і віршів. Деякі…
