A New Saint in the Orthodox Church

Saint Alexander Schmorell 

(from the Flickr page of Jim Forest)

I was thinking, as I have been writing a lot recently about Orthodoxy, theology, and so forth, that it might be interesting to some to hear that the Orthodox Church in February recognized Alexander Schmorell as a saint.  He wrote out against the Nazi regime, was captured, and finally beheaded.  For more on his life, I'll leave you to better sources than myself:


From the blog of Jim and Nancy Forest, an Orthodox couple who live in Germany and attended the canonization, about St. Alexander's life.


From the Russian Church Outside Russia's webpage, about his life.


An account of the canonization itself, from the same Jim and Nancy Forest.


And pictures of the canonization, from the same.


Enjoy!


In Christ,
Teopile/Theophilos