The All Saints Community St. Maria Centre
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The St. Maria of Paris Orthodox Outreach CentreThe St. Maria of Paris Outreach Center is located upstairs at 824 Johnson Street, in Victoria. It is a combined chapel, coffeehouse, bookstore and outreach centre, a pan-Orthodox enterprise. Join the Facebook group for news and events, and bookmark the website.
 Cross-Bearing Theotokos icon by the hand of St. Maria Skobtsova of Paris The holy and glorious venerable-martyr Maria Skobtsova (also Saint Mary of Paris or Mother Maria) was a nun and martyr in Paris in the early twentieth century. She encouraged hospitality and love of one's neighbor, often in the most uncompromising of terms. She considered this to be the foundation of the Christian gospel, and she embodied it in her life. Saint Maria died a martyr in Ravensbrück prison. She was glorified by the Church of Constantinople on January 16, 2004, along with her companions, Priest Dmitri Klepinin, her son George (Yuri) Skobtsov, and Elie Fondaminsky. They are commemorated on July 20. Source: Orthodox Wiki More on St. Maria: In Communion - Website of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship Also on the In Communion site: An article by writer Bev. Cooke of our All Saints of Alaska parish, about the pan-Orthodox mission to the homeless and underprivileged in the city of Victoria: Lunch with Mother Maria.
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