Historical Apologies
We invite you to read some of these historical examples. These serve as educational materials on how saints and other confessors have handled being a witness for the truth when persecuted by both secular and ecclesiastical powers. Note the common similarity between these passages when the protagonists speak in both great love and bold confession in all their words.
Stories of Confession before Hierarchs
St. Symeon the New Theologian’s Audience Before Patriarch Sergios II
The Petrograd Delegation of 1927: Interview with Metropolitan Sergius