The Cross of Christ on the Solovetsky Calvary. A churchyard of three million skulls, and the completion of the way of the cross of our father and Lord Seraphim with a new sun shining. Our Father, did you sing “Lord, have mercy” with silent, everlasting lips? You, the shining olive branch and the Melchizedek branch, and close by the angels sang:...
Solovki - the second Golgotha
If we had to write the Solovetsky akathist, thirteen thousand songs would not be enough, it was so rich in lofty subjects.