ROMANIAN ORTHODOX COMUNITY IN EXETER
WITHIN THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Learn about the lives and miracles of our Saints and read the historical of the Romanian Orthodox Parish in Exeter.
SAINT OLYMPIAS THE DEACONESS
The Life of St. Olympias the Deaconess
HOLY GREAT MARTYR JOHN
THE NEW OF SUCEAVA
The Life of the Holy Great Martyr John the New of Suceava
Many have lived in the world a good and pleasing life to God, according to the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and according to the teaching of His Holy Apostles. Among them is Saint John, the Great Martyr of Christ, who, although he appeared much later, is not less than those of old. For our Lord Christ and God, the giver of asceticism, crowned not only the disciples of old, but also now, in the last time, opens the door to the confession of those who want to become martyrs and honors them with the same honor, crowning them with the same crowns ...
Saint Olympias was named after her mother. She was born in Constantinople of illustrious and noble parents. Her father was one of the most honorable senators, named Anusius the Second, and her mother was the daughter of the glorious Ablavias the eparch, who is mentioned in the miracles of the hierarch of Christ, Nicholas, for he was the first after the emperor in the days of Constantine the Great. This Olympias, the daughter of Ablavias, was first betrothed to Constantius, the youngest son of Constantine the Great, who took the kingdom of ancient Rome after his father. But he being killed before the wedding, she was given to Arsaces, the emperor of Armenia, and, having lived with him not long, remained a widow ...
HISTORICAL
Through the zeal of the parish priest and the active involvement of the faithful, the parish has become a place of communion and spiritual edification, where children, young people and adults gather around the Holy Mysteries, prayer and Romanian tradition. On holidays, but also every Sunday, the church is filled with prayerful voices, causing the seeds of a living and working faith to bear fruit in a foreign land through love.