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	The Life of St Herman of Alaska
		Father Herman himself spaded the garden, planted potatoes and cabbage and various vegetables in it.
		On the occasions when Father Herman was the guest of administrators of the American Company and in the course of their soul-saving talks he sat up with them until midnight.
		The way in which Father Herman looked upon the natives of America, how he understood his own relations with them, and how he was concerned for their needs he expressed himself in one of his letters to the former administrator of the colony, Simeon Yanovsky.
	www.pravoslavie.ru /english/st-herman-alaska.htm (6380 words)

	St Herman of Alaska
		Herman came from the town of Serpukhov, a short distance from Moscow.
		Father Herman chose this island by himself as a place for his own seclusion, and dug there with his hands a cave in the ground and spent his first whole summer in it.
		Herman reposed in the Lord on November 15/28, 1836 at the age of 76.
	www.stherman.com /presshistory/stherman.htm (502 words)

	Herman of Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Herman of Alaska is the first saint to be canonized by the Orthodox Church in America.
		Born: probably in 1756, possibly in 1760, in Serpukhov.
		Herman of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox monk from the Valaam Monastery in Russia, who traveled with eight other monks in 1793 to bring the Gospel to the native Aleuts and Eskimos in the Aleutian Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_of_Alaska (179 words)

	St. Herman of Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The man who was to become St. Herman of Alaska was born in 1756, in the city of Serpukhov, which was within the diocese of Moscow and was, therefore, influenced by the great prelates of the Russian capital.
		Herman acquired with the years a nearness to the Divine which gave him powers of healing, but this served to make him all the more humble and seek complete isolation for meditation and prayer.
		Herman's relics are enshrined in St. Ignatius Chapel at the Antiochian Village.
	www.antiochian.org /VillageCamp/saints/St-Herman-of-Alaska (924 words)

	Father Demetrios Serfes - St. Herman of Alaska
		Herman of Alaska, a monk of the ancient Valaam and Sarov monasteries in northern Russia, belonged to the 18th-century spirit of sanctity revived by the spiritual genius of St. Paisius Velichkovsky.
		The Holy Orthodox Faith which St. Herman and the other missionary zealots from holy Russia brought to the American continent is one that cannot simply be taken for granted.
		Keep in mind those who are seeking their path towards salvation this factor: Philokalia means "love of the good." It was the name given to celebrated 18th-century collection of Greek Patristic texts on the Christian spiritual life, teaching the path to true sobriety and the fullness of union with God.
	www.fr-d-serfes.org /writtings/stherman.htm (653 words)

	Russian Inok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1793, at the end of the 18th century, a Mission was sent to Alaska from Valaam Monastery in order to enlighten the pagan Aleuts with the light of faith in Christ.
		Herman struggled in Alaska, a deserted wilderness, whose nature and weather are severe, with very remote areas.
		Herman teaches us, who live in the diaspora, that we must be misssionaries and through our life spread the light of Christ's teaching.
	www.russian-inok.org /page.php?page=english1&dir=english&month=0105 (647 words)

	April '03 Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The mission of the St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Christian School (SHS) is to join in partnership with home-schooled students and their parents or guardians to encourage, equip and engage one another spiritually, physically, intellectually and emotionally for Christian living.
		Herman of Alaska Orthodox Christian School (SHS) is now enrolling for the 2003-2004 school year.
		Herman of Alaska Orthodox Christian School (SHS) is now accepting donations for the 2003-2004 school year.
	www.sainthermanschool.com /april_'03_issue.htm (702 words)

	The Stories of the Saints of North America
		Herman of Alaska was born in 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese of Russia.
		Herman is commemorated on December 12 on the calendar of the ancient Church (December 25 according to the New Style calendar).
		O venerable Herman, ascetic of the northern wilderness and gracious advocate for all the world, teacher of the Orthodox Faith and good instructor of piety, adornment of Alaska and joy of all America: entreat Christ God, that He save our souls.
	www.allsaintsofamerica.org /orthodoxy/herman.html (688 words)

	Encyclopedia: Herman of Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, led by Metropolitan Herman.
		After the discovery of northern Alaska by Ivan Fedorov in 1732, and the Aleutian Islands, southern Alaska, and north-western shores of North America in 1741 during the Russian exploration conducted by Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov, it took fifty years until the founding of the first Russian colony in...
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Herman-of-Alaska (660 words)

	St. Herman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		St. Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756.
		While at Valaam, he was under the spiritual guidance of the Elder Nazary who had played a significant role in the revitalization of Spiritual life in Russia after the decline of spirituality which resulted from the interference in Church life on the part of Peter the great and Catherine the great.
		Herman took an icon of the Theotokos, place it on the beach and assured the people that the water would not rise beyond the place where the icon was, and it did not.
	members.aol.com /Ryvver/StHerman.html (1462 words)

	Life of St Herman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herman was a clairvoyant wonder-worker, who saw into people’s hearts and into the future.
		St. Herman's relics were brought from Spruce Island to the Resurrection Church on Kodiak (photo to the right) at the time of his glorification on August 9, 1970.
		On top of the reliquary are: a large icon of the saint (center); as well as the "paramon" cross and metal chains (on the left) that he wore (shown in the icon at the top); and his klobuk (monk's hat) (in the glass box on the right).
	www.firebirdvideos.com /saintslives/lifeofherman.htm (754 words)

	St Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church of Huntington Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herman was a Russian monk from the monastery of Valaam, near Finland.
		Herman traveled with a group of monks to Alaska in 1794, bringing Orthodoxy from Russia to the New World.
		Herman was a missionary whose love for the native people of Alaska is still remembered to this day.
	www.oldworldvillage.net /StHerman.html (235 words)

	Lives of the Saints
		Saint Herman was born in 1756 in Russia, in a merchant family living in the city of Serpukhovo.
		St. Herman foretold that he would be buried by his disciples and the inhabitants of Spruce Island in the absence of a priest.
		St. Herman quietly bowed down his head, while his face shone with joy, and peacefully departed to the Lord on December 12 (25), 1837, at the age of 81.
	www.holy-transfiguration.org /library_en/saints_herman.html (1377 words)

	The Icon Wall: A Life of St. Herman of Alaska
		For five or six years Father Herman continued to live in the Sergius Hermitage, and then he transferred to the Valaam Monastery, which was widely scattered on the islands in the waters of the great Lake Lagoda.
		In this Father Herman followed the example of many eastern ascetic fathers and monks, who showed the greatest concern for the welfare and needs of others, yet themselves wore the oldest possible clothes to show their great humility before God and their contempt for worldly things.
		The way in which Father Herman looked upon the natives of America, how he understood his own relation to them, and how he was concerned for their needs, he expressed in one of his letters to the former administrator of the colony, Simeon Janovsky.
	www.iconwall.org /holyrus/stherman/life.html (6514 words)

	church Alaska - Local business directory. church Alaska . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in Langley, the first all-English-language Orthodox Church in BC...
		Herman of Alaska Saint Herman of Alaska is the first saint to be canonized by the Orthodox Church in America.
		Herman of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox monk, one of the first to bring the Gospel to the native Aleuts and
	www.localbizus.com /alaska/alaska-church.html (648 words)

	St Herman of Alaska and the Kyivan Missionary Vision
		Alaska was the final frontier of the vast expanse of the Tsarist Russian Empire.
		When the monk, Herman, went to Alaska, he was going as a representative of a well-established missionary tradition that preached the Gospel while, at the same time, inculturated the message of Christ within the familiar context of the people being evangelized.
		St Herman was of the Paisian school of Hesychasm and the Prayer of the Heart.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/calendar/novembre_28h.htm (1406 words)

	Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Accompanying Metropolitan Herman were His Eminence, Archbishop Nathaniel of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate; His Grace, Bishop Seraphim of Ottawa and Canada; His Grace, Bishop Nikon of Boston and the Albanian Archdiocese; Protopresbyter Robert Kondratick, OCA chancellor; and the Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, assistant to the chancellor for external affairs; and a support staff.
		Metropolitan Herman and his entourage began Tuesday, December 10 with a comprehensive tour of the monastery grounds; the academy’s iconography, restoration, metal workshops; and the museum, in which many precious items from Valaam Monastery and elsewhere are on display.
		Metropolitan Herman’s visit was one of a series to the world’s sister Orthodox Churches made since his election as Primate of the Orthodox Church in America in July 2002.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /151/Finland.htm (1342 words)

	Holy Trinity Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His Grace, Bishop Nikolai of Anchorage, Sitka, and Alaska, and local clergy met the group at the Anchorage airport and accompanied them to the St. Innocent Cathedral in Anchorage for a Moleben and reception.
		After having venerated the relics of St. Herman of Alaska, Bishop Nikolai took his guests to Spruce Island, the home of St. Herman of Alaska during his earthly struggles.
		Bishop Nikolai, Rector of St. Herman’s Seminary, presented his guests with a framed reproduction of a 1798 watercolor of the Russian colony on Kodiak.
	www.hts.edu /pages/news/alaska.html (349 words)

	The Message of St. Herman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The official glorification of Saint Herman was celebrated on the ninth of August, 1970, in the Church of the Resurrection in Kodiak where the body of the saint still rests.
		Father Herman of Alaska was not a bishop, nor a priest, nor a deacon, nor even a sub-deacon or reader.
		He was known only to them, and to a handful of his fellow countrymen, most of whom despised and persecuted him for his defense of the oppressed native peoples, and his cries of intercession on their behalf before the imperial powers of Russia.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /resources/saints/hopko_st_herman.htm (1500 words)

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		Sergius and Herman of Valaam (icon below left) on Spruce Island, which was built nearly 100 years ago on the site where the Blessed Saint Herman of Alaska (icon below right) was buried.
		As many as 400 pilgrims travel to this chapel every year, primarily on August 9th, the day on which St. Herman of Alaska is commemorated.
		Mikel Bock, of St. Innocent Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, in addition to the two monks who live and pray at St. Michael's Skete, the monastery on Spruce Island, Father Andrew and Father Martyrius.
	www.saintpeterandpaul.org /photos_1alaskamiss04.html (848 words)

	Alaska Cruise Or Land Tour For A Vacation That Warms Your Heart By Elizabeth Ann Wares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alaska Cruise Or Land Tour For A Vacation That Warms Your Heart By Elizabeth Ann Wares
		For example, Alaska holds the distinction of having the largest Eagle population in the world.
		With a wilderness area that is 2 1/2 times the size of the state of Texas, you can be guaranteed excellent photo opportunities.
	north.50webs.com /alaska.htm (479 words)

	The Icon Wall: St. Herman of Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Father Herman was a monk at Valaam Monastery in Russia, and came to Alaska as part of a mission in 1793.
		The mission was sent to evangelize the native inhabitants of Alaska.
		In Alaska, Father Herman's work on behalf of the orphans and poor of the Native community, and his extreme asceticism, won the admiration and love of this community.
	www.iconwall.org /holyrus/stherman (226 words)

	Homily on St. Herman of Alaska by Fr. Josiah Trenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		St. Herman named his hermitage “New Valaam” and in writing regularly to the monastery of his repentance he would say that he was able to look out across monk’s lagoon and to see the walls of Valaam Monastery.
		Finding nothing, St. Herman told the man that he would soon die by the axe, and indeed shortly thereafter this wicked merchant had his head cut off in southern Alaska by a man who used his own axe.
		Herman of Alaska truly fulfilled the greatest of all commandments.
	oholy.net /StHerman.html (1923 words)

	Holy Archangels Orthodox Church: The Feast of St. Herman of Alaska -- 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Our holy father Herman of Alaska became a monk at the age of 16.
		There, he was guided by the abbot, Blessed Nazarius, and he found in the brotherhood and the ascetic life of the community a true joy, which he truly loved.
		If the fruits of our lives do not begin to compare with those of the life of St. Herman, it is not because he was made different from us; but rather that he made different choices.
	members.cox.net /holy_archangels/stherman.html (573 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Innocent conducts a memorial service at the grave of St. Herman; A paralytic is healed by the intercessions of St. Herman.
		Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756.
		Herman took an ikon of the Theotokos, place it on the beach and assured the people that the water would not rise beyond the place where the ikon was, and it did not.
	www.sspeterpaul.org /stherman.htm (752 words)

	Some Books About Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Alaska State Library produces this annual publication because we feel that such an annotated list is of value to libraries in Alaska.
		ASD Alaska State Depository: A small selection of titles produced by the Alaska state government as well as non-state publications received for distribution by the Alaska State Documents Program at the Alaska State Library are listed.
		Environmental advocate's account of the history of two pulp mills in Southeast Alaska that harvested low-cost timber from the Tongass National Forest from their establishment after World War II to the present and the ecological, political, and social consequences of their rise and fall.
	www.library.state.ak.us /hist/somebooks/some00.html (9427 words)

	St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church - Orthodox Prayers
		Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church - Orthodox Prayers
		Herman's began in the 1990's when a small group of laypeople sought to establish a new, traditional Orthodox community.
		The group was received by Archbishop Alypy (Gamanovich) of Chicago and Detroit into the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Its regular round of lay services was supervised by a parish priest in Indiana, who served Liturgy in the fledgling mission as he was able.
	www.stherman.net /prayers.html (665 words)

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