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| | Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Events |
 | | Vasily Ivanovich Belavin, the future Saint Tikhon, was born on January 19, 1865 into the family of Ioann Belavin, a rural priest of the Toropetz district of the Pskov diocese. |
 | | In accepting the will of the council, Patriarch Tikhon referred to the scroll that the Prophet Ezekiel had to eat, on which was written, "Lamentations, mourning, and woe." He foresaw that his ministry would be filled with affliction and tears, but through all his suffering, he remained the same accessible, unassuming, and kindly person. |
 | | Tikhon, the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow, was primate of the Russian Church for seven and a half years. |
| www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/sttikhon.cfm (2001 words) |
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