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Cuz they are in Russian...

Davy wrote: "Cuz they are in Russian..."

It's easy enough to get around that these days. There's a website in Serbia that publishes his books. Chrome translates it well enough. If there's a problem, Claude could do a better translation.

As a young man, he came close to dying of dysentery and decided that he would dedicate his life to God if he survived. He lived and was tonsured as a monk under the name Nikolaj in 1909. He was ordained into the clergy, and quickly became an important leader and spokesman for the Serbian Orthodox Church, especially in its relations with the West. When Nazi Germany occupied Yugoslavia in World War II, Velimirović was imprisoned and eventually taken to Dachau concentration camp. After being released by Germans in December 1944, Velimirović spent time in Slovenia, where he blessed anti-communist volunteers such as Dimitrije Ljotić and other Nazi collaborators. After the war, he moved to the United States in 1946, where he remained until his death in 1956. He strongly supported the unity of all Eastern Orthodox churches and established particularly good relationships with the Anglican and Episcopal Churches.[6]

Nikolaj is held in high regard in the Serbian Orthodox Church and among Serbian right-wing political elite. On 24 May 2003, he was glorified as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church as Saint Nikolaj of Ohrid and Žiča (Serbian: Свети Николај Охридски и Жички, romanized: Sveti Nikolaj Ohridski i Žički). Many of his views and writings remain controversial. Nikolaj's critics point out to instances of antisemitism in his work, to his early admiration of Adolf Hitler and to his links with Ljotić.

I saw his book on symbols and i couldnt quite get his drift so googled this. Interesting. I have some Lithuanian but don’t speak it. Eastern Orthodox sort of intrigues me.

Yeah, reading Orthodox works is kind of like reading people from an alien civilization for a while. I think Jonathan Pageau, who I've met twice, does a good job onboarding people to it on his youtube channel. St. Nikolaj's lectures Religious Spirit of the Slavs is public domain and in English. They were "outward facing" lectures, so probably make more sense to an unfamiliar person.