SAINT SILOUAN THE ATHONITE
    Frequently Asked Questions

    Holy Father Silouan, pray to God for us!


  • Where could I buy a book "Starets Silouan" and another books by Father Sophrony in English?
  • I have tried to access the English text of your page but I am unable to do so. I am wondering if only the homepage is in English and everything else is in Russian. Could you please advise where the English text is located if it does exist.
  • Is it correct that the Saint Silouan day is celebrated on the same date by new and old calendars?
  • I can't read Cyrillic letters with my computer. Could you help me?
  • I have Cyrillic fonts in my computer, but I can't undrestand your messages. What codification do you send them in?


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    Question: Where could I buy a book "Starets Silouan" and another books by Father Sophrony in English?

    Answer: For buying theese books call please the Monastery of St.John the Baptist in Maldon. It's address is following:

    The monastery of St.John the Baptist
    The Old Rectory
    Tolleshunt Knights by Maldon,
    Essex CM9 8EZ
    United Kingdom

    Phone: (44.1621) 81 64 71

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    Question: I have tried to access the English text of your page but I am unable to do so. I am wondering if only the homepage is in English and everything else is in Russian. Could you please advise where the English text is located if it does exist.

    Answer: Yes, you are right. We have only our homepage is in English and everything in Russian. Unfortunately we have not possibility to translate our Russian texts into English. We need some help for this.

    For some sites in English conserning Saint Silouan and Fr. Sophrony please see our links:
  • http://silouan.narod.ru/linksil2.htm and
  • http://sophrony.narod.ru/linksil2.htm

    I could recommend you as well to visit the English archive page of our electronic periodical bulletin "Saint Silouan and Father Sophrony: News in the Internet" http://silouan.narod.ru/newse.htm

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    Question: Is it correct that the Saint Silouan day is celebrated on the same date by new and old calendars?

    Answer: Yes, that's right.


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    Question: I can't read Cyrillic letters with my computer. Could you help me?

    Answer: It is very possible you have no Cyrillic fonts. You could install it from following sites:
  • http://webideas.com/russian/america/rsetup.htm
  • http://www.diplomat.ru/english/vopros_otvet/rsetup.htm
  • www.stetson.edu/departments/russian/cyrillic.html
  • http://nic.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/comp/fonts/fonts.html
  • http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/
  • http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/cyrillic/fonts.html
    or from another ones.

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    Question: I have Cyrillic fonts in my computer, but I can't undrestand your messages. What codification do you send them in?

    Answer: A codification of Cyrillic e-mail messages may be changed. For decoding them you may use a special freeware program that can be downloaded here.


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