Faith In Brooklyn for Nov. 6
Orthodox Christians Here Mark St. Raphael of Brooklyn Centennial
The “Jubilee Year” for Brooklyn’s first saint, Raphael of Brooklyn, is concluding on the centennial of his death. St. Nicholas Antiochian Cathedral, which serves the Eastern Orthodox Arab and Syrian communities in Brooklyn, has observed this centennial over the past year and will host special services as well as a lecture presentation in the upcoming week.
The feast of St. Raphael of Brooklyn is observed this year on the first Friday and Saturday of November (Nov. 6-7). It concludes the “Jubilee Year” that Patriarch JOHN X inaugurated to commemorate the 100th anniversary of St. Raphael’s repose (or “falling asleep in the Lord”) in 1915.