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The Saints of Exning in Suffolk

Exning is a village in Suffolk, 2 miles north-east of New­market, 11 miles south-east of Ely, 14 miles east of Cambridge and 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds. Its name may go back to the Celtic Iceni (pronounced Ikeni) tribe, who lived in what became Norfolk and North Suffolk. They may be recalled by other place-names on their southern border like the local Icknield Way, Ickworth and Ixworth, and Iken on the Suffolk coast. Exning too may have been a centre for the Iceni, famous for Queen Boudicca, who in the first century AD fought back against the sadistic Romans.

Whatever its origin, by the seventh century Exning was a well-fortified, strategic location. From the north it was protected by the low-lying, swampy fenlands and from the south by the low hills and then the forests and rivers of southern East Anglia. In the gap from the west it was protected by a huge manmade earthwork, today known as the ‘Devils Dyke’, though originally called ‘the Great Ditch’. This defensive earthwork, seven miles long, was built some time in the mid-sixth century as a border wall to protect the East Anglians from peoples to the west.

The Apostle of East Anglia, now Suffolk, Norfolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, is St Felix. Coming from Burgundy in Gaul (France) in 633, he sailed to Canterbury and then across to the Roman fortress by Felixstowe, which is named after him – ‘stowe’ means monastery – to enlighten the pagans. He opened his activities by setting up churches and monasteries near royal halls. One of these was in Rendlesham, upriver from the monastery in Felixstowe in the south-east, another was in Blythburgh, near the port of Dunwich, and to the north-east in Loddon and Reedham.

Around the coast, o the north-west of East Anglia there was another mission centre in Babingley and in the south-west was another in Soham and nearby in the stronghold of Exning. Here there was another royal hall located by the strategic border of East Anglia and it was here that Bishop Felix baptised the King of the East Angles, Anna, and his family. All of them, Jurmin of Blythburgh (+ 653), Audrey (Etheldreda) of Ely (+ 679), Saxburgh of Ely (+ 700), Wendred of March (?) and probably a grand-daughter, Withburgh of Dereham (+ 743), were to become saints.

Even today there is a holy well named after St Wendred in Exning (and also a road) and its water was famed locally among believers for its healing powers. Nobody can remember it freezing over, nor can anybody remember it drying up. It was in the water of this well that Wendred, Audrey and their siblings were baptised. It would seem certain that the original church in Exning was founded by Bishop Felix. Indeed, that church has always been dedicated to St Martin of Tours, who was much venerated by Bishop Felix and throughout Gaul, as well as in Canterbury.

Only in the early thirteenth century was Exning taken over in importance by a ‘new market’, what is now the town of Newmarket, first recorded in 1228, just to the south. The importance of this ‘new market’ may have come about as the result of the many pilgrims who came walking from London by the Icknield Way, whose route is now followed by the A11. They were heading for the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in north-west Norfolk, where the Mother of God had appeared to Edith the Fair in 1061, warning of hardships to come under the Norman Yoke.

 

 

Resisting the Servants of Antichrist: Working for the Freedom and Unity of Old and New Orthodox Churches

You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free

John: 8,32

Introduction: Patriotism Defeats Globalism

The enemy of local Patriotism has always been Globalist Imperialism. That means the hegemonic rule and tyrannical domination of the world by one monopolistic power. This is known as Zionism. And if we are speaking about Imperialism since 1945, we are speaking about Americanisation, also known as Globalisation, meaning Zionisation. This is the One World Dictatorship of Antichrist, which his servants have been working towards for ten centuries and was first attempted by the universalist claims of the Popes of Rome.

Today, however, we are entering a new period, that of a world without a monopoly of power, a world with at least nine different centres of power and influence, China, Russia, India, the USA, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Iran, South Africa. As a result, we are speaking about the Re-Sovereignisation of the lands of the world after the defeat of Globalism by Patriotism, described below.

Political ReSovereignisation

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave North Asia (Eurasia, known as Russia), abandoning its outmatched, outclassed and bankrupt Neo-Nazi proxy, the Kiev regime, which absurdly attempted to destroy Russia by sacrificing the lives of millions of its own citizens to the Zionist US elite.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave North-West Asia (the Western European Peninsula), abandoning to Eurasia the hated Globalist, illegal puppet elites the US put into power in the Neo-Nazi controlled NATO/EU countries.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave West Asia (‘the Middle East’), abandoning the Zionist settler state and its corrupt and tyrannical Gulf puppets to the Great Power of West Asia, which is, and always has been, Iran.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave East Asia (China), abandoning its local puppet elites in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and withdrawing its missiles and troops from there.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave South Asia (the Indian subcontinent), which depends on Iranian and Russian energy to survive.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave South-East Asia (Australia and all Oceania), abandoning its absurdly expensive and quite unnecessary local NATO, called AUKUS.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave Africa, as its lands at last gain the courage to throw off colonial control.

Today we see that the USA is being forced to leave Latin America, having lost all support for the conquest of Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and Canada.

Church ReSovereignisation

‘Those who put the Patriarch into power in Constantinople will remove him’.

Eldress Galaktia of Crete (+ 2021)

In Church terms, this means that the USA will also be forced to abandon its puppet in Constantinople. This it has controlled ever since, in one its first criminal acts, the CIA kidnapped the righteous confessor Patriarch Maximos V in 1948 and took him into exile in Switzerland in the presidential plane of the atomic mass murderer Truman. As a result, the CIA tried to exercise its anti-canonical control over all the Local Orthodox Churches through the deliberate Zionist misinterpretation of the Church canons, notably Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon, thus flattering anti-Christian Hellenist racism.

Freedom at long last for the Patriarchate of Constantinople would mean that the Russian Church would not have to try and be Zionist either. For, equally absurdly, Zionist, Soviet Moscow has in rivalry also tried to lay claim to universal domination of all the Local Orthodox Churches in the same way as Zionist Constantinople. Now they both harbour the same imperialist, that is, anti-Christian, anti-Catholic and anti-local, ambitions. The restoration of Russian Church governance through its Re-Sovereignisation would be possible. But for that it must overcome its stiflingly bureaucratic Soviet-style Papalised centralisation.

However, the corruption of the Russian Church, its Papalisation, Statisation, nationalisation, clericalisation, militarisation, bureaucratisation and ritualisation, goes back before 1917. For even in 1917 the vast majority of its bishops betrayed the Orthodox Tsar. But the heroic confessor and martyr Patriarch Tikhon did not. Before that, it was for 200 years enslaved as a Department of State on the Protestant model by a Tsar who was Protestant in all but name. Any number of episcopal quenchers of the Spirit, ‘good administrators’ (the words of Metr Antony of Kiev (1863-1936)), now called ‘effective managers’, were found then, as now.

The governance of the Russian Church is Papalised (they adore the Pope of Rome and go there as often as possible), controlled by a Sovietised senior clerical caste, for now schismatically out of communion with other Local Churches, is top heavy, irrelevant to the people and above all has been unfaithful to the New Martyrs and Confessors. The New Martyr Tsar Nicholas knew this 120 years ago and prayed for the spiritual renewal of the clergy. The best of the Russian emigration like St John of Shanghai knew it too. But freedom and restoration have still not come. Soviet-style nationalism is not patriotism, for it makes Russia hated.

Conclusion: The Suicide of Psychopaths Brings Life to Others

A few days ago, the psychopathic and foul-mouthed Trump, the master of vulgarity and bad taste, resembling the mafia boss of a gangster Empire more than a President of a democratic republic, threatened that a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’. In his malignant narcissist folly mixed with dementia, the main representative of the anti-family Epstein class threatened to kill 5,000 years of Iranian Civilisation. This was just like another American narcissistic bully, a spoilt brat and virulent supporter of Trump, only a few of whose effeminate and sycophantic clergy had the guts to resist. He threatened to kill 50 years of English Orthodox Civilisation, its foundations in the distant past and threatened to destroy its families today.

In fact, both shot themselves in both feet, Trump, by losing in the Ukraine and then in Iran, the bishop by creating a schism against Orthodoxy and then against English identity. Trump is isolated from the rest of the world, he has no allies and has blasphemed against Christ, so he will finish badly. The bishop has isolated himself from fifteen Local Churches and will be isolated within his own, once it comes out of its schism against the Greek Orthodox world. Once his own Local Church is no longer distracted by politics, he too will find himself totally isolated. Thus, we successfully resist the servants of Antichrist, when they commit spiritual suicide.

 

 

 

Can the Suicide of the Western World Be Stopped?

It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.

Henry Kissinger

Nightmares

Last year a young Ukrainian refugee, aged 27, came to us. She told us of her fiancé whose job had been drone-making. One day one of them exploded in his hands. All that remained of the young man’s body was a pair of legs. Last week another Ukrainian from the west of the Ukraine came to us and told us how in his city there is a curfew from 9.00 pm till 6.00 am every night, when trains arrive with the corpses of thousands of dead soldiers to be buried by night.

The old cemeteries are full and the new ones too. Such is the nightmare in the Ukraine, now being repeated in Gaza, the West Bank, the Lebanon, Iran and Israel. It is a nightmare of injustices and death. The last 112 years have been dominated by injustices, starting with those that occurred during and after the two World Wars. The Western elites caused them; all peoples suffered from them. The time has come for retribution and the correction of injustices.

Prophecies and the Decline of the Western World

We have entered the times of Biblical prophecies, when armies are massing in Biblical lands, and the times of the prophecies of Orthodox elders. However, all prophecies are conditional on repentance. So far we have seen no signs of repentance on the part of those who have begun their wars of choice against both Russia and Iran. In the wings is China, which has had its own difficulties with the West and may have been mentioned as ‘Sinim’ in the Book of Isaiah.

Extremists refer to Babylon and Armageddon, the prophecies of the Prophet Daniel, prophecies from the only Prophetic book in the New Testament, the Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse), and prophecies made by recent saints regarding what is now Turkey. We should be careful. There are those who through ignorance or through malevolence misinterpret such prophecies. All are conditional, all should be read through the prism of Church life.

The USA has much accelerated its own decline, decadence, bankruptcy and death through its many futile and unprovoked wars of death and destruction, for example, against Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, but above all more recently against Russia, Yemen and Iran. Its vassals, the Ukraine, Western Europe and the Gulf emirates and sheikhdoms, are committing suicide together with it. It is always better not to ally yourself with a suicide.

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are just beginning to understand this and may yet save themselves, like rats trying to flee the sinking US ship. On the other hand, the feudal and anti-patriotic Globalist Western European elite still plans to turn the welfare States that it inherited into warfare States, just like their beloved Nazis. Only if that elite is changed, by election or by popular revolt, even at this eleventh hour, is there still any lingering hope of salvation.

We have seen that ‘Democracies’ are plutocracies and oligarchies, which are fundamentally feudal and have strong Fascist tendencies. And we have seen that ‘Autocracies’ are the still sovereign countries with people who patriotically resist Western Globalist oligarchy, colonisation and exploitation and retain their national identity. This is why throughout the twentieth century the Democracies set about destroying the remaining Autocracies, as in 1917.

Narcissism

Those who did not know the American bishop have learned that malignant narcissists like Trump do have superficial charm, but suffer from pompous and fantasist self-importance, with greed for money and power, stimulation, lies, manipulation. They also suffer from the inability to feel remorse and guilt and the pathological need to blame others for everything in self-justification. When they have lost, as they always do, they always walk away, declaring victory.

They disdain empathy, honesty, compassion and self-sacrifice, all the values of Christ, Whom they only pretend to confess. That is why they turn the Persecuted Church into the Persecuting Church, and are so aggressive, anti-missionary, anti-woman and anti-family, and may be sexually disturbed, like Hegseth, Graham or Bessent in Trump’s USA. Their Creed is: ‘Me, me, me’. And that is why they have no room in their lives for any others and destroy everything.