Sergius & Bacchus were third century, high-ranking, Christian, Roman legionnaire, soldiers. These two close friends of Roman citizenship were officers of troops at the frontier, stationed in the border of Syria, serving Emperor Maximian. They held high favour and esteem in Emperor’s eyes, hence they were attached to the household Read more
Francesco, who is revered today as a saint, but began his life as a sinner, was the son of Pietro di Bernardone a wealthy, busy cloth merchant of Assisi, born in the year 1181/82 in a poor stable, of medieval country of Spoleto, Italy. His father also owned farmland around Read more
Let us pray for the Seminaries – the Seedbed of our Holy Church. Seminary is nursery where priests are groomed and bred, a place where the seeds of Spiritual knowledge are sown and nurtured. Nurture is related and derived from the root word Nursery. A Place where plants are seeded, Read more
St Yeldo Mar Baselios was born in 1593, in the famous Hadhai family, in a village called kooded (Bakhdida), now known as Karakosh near Mosul in the present Iraq, the same place where Marth Smooni and her 7 children suffered martyrdom. At a very young age he joined the Mar Read more
Mar Dionysius Shemvun was born in the Karottuveettil family of Kandanad to Kochipeora Tharakan and Unnicharu on 4th December 1823. His baptismal name was Shemvun and belonged to the Marth Mariam Church at Kandanad. He had his preliminary education in the local town school. From his childhood he was very Read more
Mar Abhai, saint, and martyr, ascetic, born in a village Raksan in Mardin, Turkey in the middle of the fourth century BC. Abhai abandoned the world, gave all his wealth to the poor and joined a Dyayra (monastery). He had recourse to ascetic life in the mountain of Karkar and Read more
St. Adai, (Mar Addai or Mar Aday, sometimes Latin: Addeus) the twin brother of St. Thomas, was one of the seventy-two (seventy) evangelists, the Lord appointed and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go (Lk. 10: 1). St. Adai was the first Bishop Read more
Gregory (Mar Gregorios), the Illuminator, the Enlightener, the Apostle, Founder, and Patron saint of Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, was born about the year A. D. 257 in Armenia Gregory is also known as ‘the Sun of Armenia’. Armenia was always the exposed frontier state between Rome and Persia. He Read more
St. Jerome traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He was a hermit, a Latin priest, a teacher, confessor, monastic leader, theologian, and historian. He was an avid student, a thorough scholar, a prodigious letter-writer. One of the greatest Christian scholars of all time, he is recognized as Read more
HG Dr Philipose Mar Theophilos was born, as the sixth son of nine children to Korah and Mariamma, in a God fearing, well-to-do Kallupurakkal branch of Varikkatt family of Puthanangadi Kottayam on 9 May 1911. Mariamma, was daughter of George, Paikandathil, Mepral. Graceful and charming young boy, Korah Philipose had Read more