Word: tikhon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
...jeweled lamps broke the darkness. Upon a catafalque near the altar was laid a dead and gorgeous prelate, a mitre on his head, silks and satins about his body-his white hands stretched out. The thousands sobbed and groaned while priest after priest intoned the sacred words which Dr. Tikhon could not hear...
...Tikhon, unfrocked Patriarch of Russia, fainted in the Donskoy Monastery. Suffering from arteriosclerosis...
...Methodist Bishops had officially offered support to the Living Church, or reorganized Russian Church, they would have directly opposed the attitude taken by the American Protestant Episcopal churches. The Episcopalians have favored that faction of the Russian Orthodox Church which upheld Patriarch Tikhon whom the other faction, or Living Church, unfrocked...