For almost a century, monks of the Catholic Order of Friars Minor lived here, but now the order has become impoverished and cannot maintain the monastery. So it was bought by the Orthodox parish of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam, which had grown greatly, as NTV reported. But the Patriarchate still has no money for church needs in Russia - neither for education, nor for charity. Well, of course, there are more Orthodox Christians in Holland than in Russia - that’s where we should invest first. Or is the whole point that Orthodoxy for the Russian Orthodox Church has become a foreign policy doctrine, and not Good News at all?