Nadieszda Kizenko

For many “cradle” Orthodox Christians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, experiencing one’s first confession at around the age of seven marked the transition from infancy to childhood. Regarding seven as the age of reason, or of “discretion”, was something they shared with their Roman Catholic neighbors, as was the way in which their families prepared them for their first experience of confession…

That saints are products of not only the societies that they lived in but also the ones they continue to engage, is by now a truism. It is not only a matter of making it into the menaia and once in, always in. Servicebooks can be altered. To use the metaphor of a modern museum,[…..]