The Church has always recognized that evil must be resisted – even by force. This is not mere speculation on my part, as it has been normative for most of the Church’s history to enter the names of slain Orthodox warriors into the diptychs of their local church and commemorate them. During his tenure as bishop of Kazan, St. Hermogenes of Moscow wrote a letter to St. Job of Moscow asking the latter’s blessing to commemorate those slain for faith and fatherland against the Tartar in his See.3 Likewise, the Church commemorates Orthodox Warriors on August 29/September 11, serving the Office for Orthodox Warriors Slain on the Field of Battle for the Faith and the Fatherland.

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