Memorial Day

St. Tikhon’s Monastery to host 109th annual pilgrimage

May 20, 2013 Featured News

19/5/13 The 109th Memorial Day Pilgrimage to St. Tikhon’s Monastery/Seminary in Waymart will begin Friday at 3:45 p.m. when Metropolitan Tikhon greets visiting hierarchs at the Monastery Archway. Metropolitan Hilarion, the first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, will concelebrate the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy beginning at 10 a.m. on Memorial Day, May [...]

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Weeping Iveron Icon from Hawaii due at 108th Pilgrimage to St. Tikhon’s Monastery

May 23, 2012 News

23/5/2012 The Weeping Iveron Icon from Hawaii will arrive at St. Tikhon’s Monastery for Memorial Day weekend for the 108th annual pilgrimage to St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Orthodox Monastery in South Canaan. This year the Sunday, May 27, pilgrimage route will follow the one used more than 100 years ago, according to organizer Protodeacon Joseph [...]

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Walking in our forefathers’ footsteps: Memorial Day pilgrimage includes procession “from Mayfield to the Monastery”

May 3, 2012 Featured News

SOUTH CANAAN, PA [OCA] 3/5/2012 It was in 1905 that faithful Orthodox Christians processed from Saint John the Baptist Church, Mayfield, PA, to South Canaan for the formal opening of Saint Tikhon’s Monastery. This year, faithful are invited to “walk in our forefathers’ footsteps” on Sunday, May 27 in a procession that follows the same [...]

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