Posted on 10/21/2020 8:48:41 AM PDT by NRx
The Holy Hierarch-Martyr Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd [St. Petersburg], who in 1922 became a martyr of Christ to Communist terror, said at his trial…
“I do not know what sentence you will pass upon me—life or death—yet whatever your pronouncement, I will raise my eyes upward with the same reverence, make the sign of the Cross (here he crossed himself broadly) and say, “Glory to Thee, O Lord God, for all things!”
Then he was shot.
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Heard somewhere one of the current bishops saying: I will die in my bed, my successor will die in prison, his successor will die a martyr, and his successor will rebuild the Church.
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