Hagiology
St. Moses the Ethopian
Eva Topping
28 August 2017
Moses the Ethiopian was tall as a tree, strong as Samson, and black as a st...
The Image of the Turks in the Vitae of the Neomartyrs of the Orthodox Church
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America
13 August 2017
The image that one nation has for another goes through different levels o...
The New Martyr Athanasios the Iviritis – Part 1
24 July 2017
In the year 1628 the holy martyr Athanasios, a Greek by birth, the son of ...
The lion and the hermit: Saint Gerasimus the Jordanite
Eva Topping
15 July 2017
Once upon a time there lived in the desert by the Jordan River a very holy ...
China’s New Martyrs
14 June 2017
11 June 1900: a day of Diocletian-like persecution against the numerous Chr...
Saint Anthimos Arethiotis
Dr. Haralambos Bousias, Great Hymnographer of the Church of the Alexandrians
25 May 2017
‘Whoever observes the whole of the law, but errs in one thing, is guilty of...
Encomium to the Holy Martyr Pelagia – 1
Saint John Chrysostom
4 May 2017
Blessed be our God: because women, too, now mock death, and maidens laugh a...
Saint Mary Magdalene: The Revision of the Role of a Prominent Apostle
25 April 2017
The years between 1976-1985 were declared by the United Nations to be the “...
St John of the Ladder – Part IΙ
Colm Luibheid
29 March 2017
Still, whether incompatible or not with the modern sense of the self and of...
St John of the Ladder – Part I
Colm Luibheid
28 March 2017
To Western eyes, the monk, increasingly, is a figure of yesterday, and the ...