Today's feasts

May 23: Saint Michael the Confessor, Bishop of Synnada; Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov; Martyr Michael "the black-robed" of Saint Sabbas' Monastery; Virgin Euphrosyne, princess and Abbess of Polotsk; Venerable Paisius, Abbot of Galich; Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas; Martyr Salonas the Roman; Martyr Seleucus; Hieromonk Damascene of Valaam; Saint Demetrius the King and Hymnographer; Saint Helen of Caernarvon, wife of Emperor Maximos; opening of the relics of Saint Leontius, Bishop and Wonder-worker of Rostov

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The V. Rev. Raphael Morgan was a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, later the founder and superior of the Order of the Cross of Golgotha, and thought to be the first black Orthodox clergyman in America. Having recently been discovered, his life has garnered great interest, but much of his life still remains shrouded in mystery.

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