Description

The document presented here is a letter, printed by the Russian Holy Synod in Moscow in 1907, which was used in a fundraising appeal for the construction of Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. The idea for establishing a monastery in North America came from Father Arsenii (born Arseny Chagovtsov, 1866–1945), a gifted preacher and missionary who arrived in the United States from Russia in 1902, and from Bishop Tikhon (born Vasilii Ivanovich Bellavin, 1865–1925), the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America ...