Princess Alice hid a Jewish family in her home in 1943 in Nazi-occupied Athens and is counted as one of the Righteous Among the Nations; Charles also tours Bethlehem, meets Abbas
On December 8-9, under the auspices of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign and presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the first in-person session of the Synod of Bishops was held in New York City.