Hagiology
Saint Kalandion of Cyprus
26 April 2015
Saint Kalandion
After the fall of Palestine to the Arabs, a large number ...
The 40 Martyrs of Sebaste: Confession through martyrdom
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
9 March 2015
A troparion of the liturgical Service in honour of the Forty Martyrs says...
Venerable Baradates, the Syrian Hermit
22 February 2015
Venerable Baradates
Saint Baradates the Syrian began to live as a desert-...
The Holy Martyr Tryphon of Apamea
1 February 2015
Saint Tryphon was born in Lampsakos, in Phrygia during the reign of the Emp...
Venerable Xenophon and Maria of Constantinople, with sons Arcadius and John
26 January 2015
Saint Xenophon, his wife Maria, and their sons Arcadius and John, were note...
New Martyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev
25 January 2015
The holy Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev was the first bishop to be tortured ...
Saint Arsenius of Paros (+1877)
22 January 2015
Saint Arsenius was born on January 31, 1800 in Ioannina, Epirus of pious Or...
Saint Maximus the Confessor
Sister Vassa Larin
21 January 2015
St. Maximus was born in the late 6th century, in Palestine – according to t...
New Martyr George of Ioannina (+1838)
17 January 2015
George was born in 1808 in the village Tsourchli in what is now Grevena Pre...
Saint Theodosius, Abbot of Filotheou and Metropolitan of Trebizond
11 January 2015
Saint Theodosius, Metropolitan of Trebizond, was born in the village of Kor...