2015 Creative Festivals Theme: St. Raphael of Brooklyn,

Good Shepherd of the Lost Sheep in America

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St. Raphael was brilliant, and educated most likely to be a university professor and priest. The photo is from when he was a student at at prestigious theologi-cal school in Russia in 1890.

“His writings and his sermons are eminently practical, based on Holy Scripture and his own experiences of life. He followed Christ. In the words of the Proph-et Isaiah, devoid of any personal agenda, he simply said at every time and in every place: “Here I am, send me” (Isaiah 6:8). Bishop Basil in “Raphael Hawaweeny, Bishop of Brooklyn” (www.antiochian.org)

1. St. George Church, New Kensington, Pennsylvania 19142. St. George Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19123. St. George Church, Charleston, West Virginia, 19114. St. Mary’s Church, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 19065. St. Michael the Archangel, Monessen, Pennsylvania, 1914

St. Raphael at St. George Church, Charleston,

West Virginia, 1911

St. Raphael in Pennsylvania, and West Virginia45