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Further falsifications of the lives of real True Orthodox Christian Hieromartyrs by the "Moscow Patriarchate"

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Concerning the falsification of the Life of St. Victor, Bishop of Glazov:

St. Victor of Glazov, whose incorrupt relics were discovered in 1997, was the first Bishop to break communion with Metropolitan Sergius after his apostatic declaration of 1927. He reposed on May 2, 1934 in exile.

St. Victor wrote, among other things, concerning Metropolitan Sergius: "Being in all his activity an anti-church heretic, as transforming the Holy Orthodox Church from the house of the grace-filled salvation of believers into a graceless, carnal organization deprived of the spirit of life, Metropolitan Sergius has at the same time, through his conscious renunciation of the truth and in his mindless betrayal of Christ, become an open apostate from God the Truth." 

And also: "It is precisely in his declaration that Metropolitan Sergius as it were confessed, and in his deeds is carrying out a lawless merging of that which is God’s with that which is Caesar’s, or rather, that which is Christ’s with that which is Antichrist’s, which is a dogmatic sin against the Church and is defined as the sin of apostasy.”

St. Victor was obviously a firmly Orthodox and anti-Sergianist bishop!

However the life of St. Hilarion Troitsky, which was written by Metropolitan John Snychev (†1995) of the Moscow Patriarchate as found at https://orthochristian.com/33316.html#_ftn15 states:

"Archbishop Hilarion worked very hard to convince Bishop Victor of Glazov, who was very closely aligned with the Josephites (the Catacomb Church). He finally did manage to convince Bishop Victor, and not only did the latter recognize that he was wrong—he even wrote a letter to his flock enjoining them to cease their separations."

This fictitious story of St. Victor "repenting" and leaving the Catacomb Church is contradicted by the following facts:

1) Ivan M. Andreyev, the co-author (along with Fr. Seraphim Rose) of "Russia's Catacomb Saints" who was himself a prisoner in Solovki at this time speaks of St. Victor as a Catacomb bishop and mentions that "Archbishop Hilarion Troitsky was soon taken away somewhere from Solovki ... On the other hand Bishops (and Saints!) Victor, Hilarion (of Smolensk) and Nektary rather quickly found the possibility not only to meet, but also to concelebrate with Vladyka Maxim in secret catacomb services in the depths of the forests of Solovki."

Thus, according to the witness and friend of St. Victor - Vladyka Victor was a Catacomb Bishop who, after the departure of St. Hilarion from Solovki concelebrated with other Catacomb Bishops!

2) Additionally, I.M. Andreyev writes: "On January 21 (February 3), 1930, on the feast of St. Maximus the Confessor (Vladyka Maxim's name's day), we physicians got together and bought in our camp store an immense 'pontifical' porcelain teacup, of exceedingly fine workmanship, and solemnly presented it as a gift to our dear Vladyka. Vladyka ate little, but he loved to drink tea. The gift was a great success. This whole day we again spent, as on Pascha, together, in our cell, and Vladyka Victor told us much concerning interesting details in the trial of St. Maximus the Confessor. "You are fortunate, Vladyka, that you bear the name of such a great heavenly protector and confessor in our day," Vladyka Victor concluded his account with heartfelt joy."

This event occurred not only after St. Hilarion left Solovki but also after his repose in December of 1929 - and in it we see Saints Maxim and Victor (the one who supposedly left the Catacomb Church) sitting side by side as dear brothers in the Lord!

3) According to Soviet records, St. Victor was arrested (again) in mid-December, 1932. On the 22nd of that month he was interrogated. According to these records St. Victor stated, "According to my religious convictions, I am a follower of Patriarch Tikhon. I do not recognize renovationism or sergianism.”

4) Fr. Seraphim Rose reveals, in "Russia's Catacomb Saints" that, after 1931, St. Victor was "exiled for three years to the bank of the Onega River in the Archangelsk region, where, according to some reports, he was in contact with the catacomb hierarchs (and Saints), Metropolitan Joseph (of Petrograd) and Bishop Damascene (of Glukhov)".

5) Before his death (in 1934) Bishop Victor entrusted his followers to (the Catacomb) Archbishop (and Saint) Seraphim of Uglich. This is witnessed by (the Catacomb bishop and Saint) Damascene of Glukhov, whom Archbishop Seraphim, in his turn, asked to be useful to his “Vyatka children” (St. Victor of Glazov is also know as St. Victor of Vyatka) in the summer of 1935.

Thus, if St. Victor left the Catacomb Church (as the above version of the life of St. Hilarion states) - then why is he entrusting his disciples to a catacomb bishop right before his death (and 5 years after his last meeting with St. Hilarion)?

6) And finally, we have the 1934 Epistle of St. Victor in which he writes, among other things "by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 5:4), we declare that the former Metropolitan Sergius is deprived of prayerful communion with us and with all of those who are faithful to Christ and His Holy Orthodox Church..."

Thus multiple sources prove this story of the "conversion" of St. Victor to be a myth, a lie, and slander.

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The 2nd falsification:

But alas, it does not end with this inaccurate story of Metropolitan John; for Abbot Damascene (Orlovsky) of the MP writes concerning St. Victor of Glazov, as found in the "Orthodox Word" (Platina): "The differences of opinion between the Russian hierarchs after the publication of the declaration turned out to be so great that they were on the verge of a break with the substitute of the locum tenens of the Church. This did not occur..."

In this entire Life there is not a single mention of St. Victor breaking communion with Sergius! Rather they declare it never happened! 

Why did Platina publish this falsified Life of St. Victor? Did they not read it before printing it? Or, if they did read it, did they really forget the unquestionably true facts concerning St. Victor as found in the book "Russia's Catacomb Saints" which was printed by their very own monastery by Fr. Seraphim Rose of blessed memory?