Today's feasts
February 9: Leavetaking of the Presentation of our Lord; Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch; Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily, Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina, and Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus; Martyr Peter Damascene; Saints Nicephorus and Gennadius, monks of Vazheozersk (Vologda); Saint Pancratius, hieromonk of the Kiev Caves; Saints Aemilianus and Braccchio of Tours (Gaul); Saint Teilo, Bishop of Llandaff; Saint Roman of Cilicia; Martyr Apollonia, Deaconess of Alexandria; Venerable Shio Mgvime; translation of the relics of Innocent, first Bishop of Irkutsk (see also November 26). Other events: repose of Maria, desert-dweller of Olonets
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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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