Hegumen Veniamin (Novik) died
Hegumen Veniamin (Novik) died SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 SVETLANA SOLDOVNIK On Tuesday morning, after a serious long-term illness in St. Petersburg, Hegumen Veniamin (Novik), an outstanding church publicist and human rights activist, died, reports the Information Service of the St. Philaret Institute. Father Veniamin underwent two operations to remove a brain tumor. He was one of those who came to God and to the church on the wave of conversions to Christianity by the intelligentsia of the 70s.