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HOLYROOD HERMITAGE VISIT

Monday 29th of September, 2008: His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Holyrood Hermitage at Avondale (a Western Rite monastic house within ROCOR). His Eminence had talks with Fr. David and Fr. Augustine before blessing the chapel at Holyrood House. Holyrood has been affiliated with Saint Petroc Monastery since 2006. Fr. Augustine was received as a Western Rite monk into Russian Orthodoxy in 1962.