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The Washington, DC-based Holy Archangels Foundation has held annual retreats focused on his legacy and commemorating his life and works, starting in 2010, and maintains a website about him. The bestselling book ''Everyday Saints'' by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov includes a chapter on him entitled "His Eminence the Novice." Bp. Basil's apartment in Washington is maintained much as he left it, and faithful gather for services often at his home chapel there.<ref>"But as it happens, he ended up like a fish out of water, not so much for his energetic missionary activity as for his conflict with a very powerful lobby -- a group who advocated certain practices that have no place in the Orthodox Church. As a result, Bishop Basil had to retire on a very modest pension" (Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), ''Everyday Saints'', (Pokrov Publications, 2012), p. 374). According to sources who knew Bishop Basil, a gay lobby is what Archimandrite Tikhon is referring to here.</ref>