Saints Sergius of Valaam | Sergius and Herman of Valaam | Herman of Valaam Chapel, built in 1898 over the site where St. Herman was buried on Spruce Island in December 1836.

His relics were transferred from his grave underneath the church of Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel on Spruce Island to the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak.

" A Russian Orthodox Church consecrated to Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam was built in the community in 1870 ( only three years after the sale of Alaska by Russia to the United States ).

Sergius / Herman of Valaam Church

According to one tradition, the monastery was founded by a 10th century Greek monk, Sergius, and his Karelian companion, Herman.

* Translation of Relics of Sergius and Herman Wonder-workers of Valaam ( 1542-1550 )

* Venerable Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam ( 1353 )

From 1979-1993 he served as chair of the Fellowship of Saints Sergius and Herman.

Most of its immigrant population is now gone ; however, St. Sergius Chapel, designed by Nicholas Roerich and built in 1932-1933, remains.

With the conversion of Sergius Paulus, Paul begins to gain prominence over Barnabas from the point where the name " Paul ," his Roman name, is substituted for " Saul " ( 13: 9 ); instead of " Barnabas and Saul " as heretofore ( 11: 30 ; 12: 25 ; 13: 2, 7 ) we now read " Paul and Barnabas " ( 13: 43, 46, 50 ; 14: 20 ; 15: 2, 22, 35 ); only in 14: 14 and 15: 12, 25 does Barnabas again occupy the first place, in the first passage with recollection of 14: 12, in the last two, because Barnabas stood in closer relation to the Jerusalem church than Paul.

A Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognized as his father, although other sources assert that he was the illegitimate son of his predecessor Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ).

For Carloman, king of the Franks, is the friend of Christophorus and Sergius, and will be wishful to come to Rome and seize you .”

It is unknown exactly which canons Sergius I objected to, but he declared that he would " rather die than consent to erroneous novelties ".

Simony is said to have flourished during the reign of Sergius II.

The only source of this affair is the chronicler Liutprand of Cremona, writing some 50 years after the events of Sergius ’ pontificate.

The question of whether Theophylact and Theodora needed to tie Sergius to them by such means, particularly when Sergius was already deeply indebted to them for his elevation to the papacy, as well as wasting Marozia in a relationship when, as the daughter of an important house, she would have been a valuable tool to link via marriage to another noble house, is open to debate.

However, the reality is that when Sergius was forcibly exiled by Lambert, duke of Spoleto, all the official records were destroyed ; consequently, most of the surviving documentation about Sergius comes from his opponents.

Others, however, claimed that the Pope resisted his power ; there is some evidence that Sergius IV gave political backing to an anti-Crescentius faction in the city.

Sergius was buried in the Lateran Basilica, and is sometimes venerated as a Saint by the Benedictines.

* June 15 – Louis II is crowned King of Lombardy by Pope Sergius II.

Lucius Sergius Catilina ( 108 BC – 62 BC ), known in English as Catiline, was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC who is best known for the Catiline ( or Catilinarian ) conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic, and in particular the power of the aristocratic Senate.

Firstly, it is plain that Pope Honorius endorsed the notion of Monoenergism as defined by Patriarch Sergius, as written in his reply to the Patriarch.

The Council's letter of confirmation clearly states: " We anathematize the inventors of the new error, that is, Theodore, Sergius, ... and also Honorius, who did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted.

Elymas the sorcerer is struck blind before Sergius Paulus.

Since Paul's journey to Cyprus is usually dated to the first half of the 40s ( and some scholars would date his visit even earlier ), it is thought Sergius first served his three years as Proconsul at Cyprus, then returned to Rome, where he was appointed curator.

His fame reached Italy, and at the request of Pope Sergius I he paid a visit to Rome, of which, however, there is no notice in his extant writings.

Sergius Orata of the Roman Republic is considered the first major merchant and cultivator of oysters.

In modern Italy, this kind of saltation is continued by the name of Sabatina, though Pope Sergius III prohibited.

Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War ( about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina ), The Jugurthine War ( about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE ), and the Histories ( of which only fragments survive ).

In a symbolically important step, Sergius I declared support for the chant " Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us " at the breaking of the Host during Mass, and restored the damaged facade mosaic in St. Peter's atrium that depicted the Worship of the Lamb ; the depiction of Christ as lamb had been prohibited by the Council.

The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius () is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In Roman days its fisheries were important and its oyster-beds, whose foundation is attributed to one Sergius Orata in about 100 BC, were renowned-as they are today.

When Desiderius attempted to enter Rome in 771 with an army, claiming to be on a pilgrimage to pray at the shrine of St. Peter, Christophorus and Sergius shut the gates of the city against them.

In the 4th century, it became a pilgrimage town for Christians coming to venerate Saint Sergius, a Christian Roman soldier said to have been martyred in Resafa during the Diocletianic Persecution.

* Official site of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra

* Official site of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra

* Official site of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra

In 1030, the site was ceded to Rainulf Drengot, a cadet of the lords of Quarrel near Alençon in Normandy ; he was invested as count by Duke Sergius IV of Naples and confirmed by Emperor Conrad II.

Eppia – a senator's wife – and her Sergius eloped to Egypt, where he deserted her.

Sergius was then forcibly exiled by Lambert, fleeing to his see at Caere, where he placed himself under the protection of Adalbert II, Margrave of Tuscany.

That both men were murdered during Sergius ’ pontificate appears probable, although other accounts state that Christopher at least was allowed to retire to a monastery ; however, given where the real power lay, it seems more likely that either Theophylact gave the orders directly, or that he directed Sergius to give the orders.

He appears in Acts ( 13: 6-13 ), where in Paphos Paul, accompanied by Barnabas and John Mark, overcame the attempts of Bar-Jesus or Elymas and converted Sergius to Christianity.

He married Juliana Osorguine in 1943, before completing his theological studies at the Orthodox Theological Institute of St. Sergius in Paris ( where he studied with the noted Russian theologian, Father Sergei Bulgakov, amongst others ) and was ordained a priest in 1946.

In the early 16th century, Vasily III added the Nikon annex and the Serapion tent, where several of Sergius ' disciples were interred.

He took the side of Dmitrii Donskoi in his struggle against Tver and Nizhny Novgorod, where he once sent St. Sergius of Radonezh to suspend divine service in churches and monasteries, until the political strife was over.

This legend includes the story of three monks ( Theophilus, Sergius, and Hyginus ) who " wished to discover the point where the sky and the earth touch " ( in Latin: ubi cœlum terræ se conjungit ).

Roman Cyprus was visited by the Apostles Paul, Barnabas and St. Mark, who came to the island at the beginning of their first missionary journey in 45 AD, according to Christian tradition, converting the people of Cyprus to Christianity and founding the Church of Cyprus, After their arrival in Salamis, they proceeded to Paphos where they converted the Roman governor Sergius Paulus to Christ.

Over the next days, Sergius was also brutally tortured and finally executed at Resafa, where his death was marked by miraculous happenings.

On September 4, 1943, Metropolitan Alexius together with Metropolitan Sergius ( Stragorodsky ) and Metropolitan Nicholas ( Yarushevich ) met with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin where a historic decision was made regarding the fate of the Church in the state ruled by the militantly atheist Communist party.