St. Cyril, a distinguished Champion of Orthodoxy and a great teacher of the Church, was born in the town of Theodosion, Lower Egypt, in an illustrious and pious Christian family. He studied the secular sciences, including philosophy, but most of all he strove to acquire knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and Read more
The Holy Church has set commemorative days for the Virgin Mary to be celebrated all the year round and observes five feasts of Blessed Virgin Mary every year, including May 15, in the honour of St. Mary, the Protectress of Crops, for the blessing of spikes, as the first step Read more
Simon the Zealot is one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus, a man about whom we know so little, to add to the fact that, his name also produces problem. The name occurs in all four lists of Apostles. To distinguish him from Simon Peter, he is called Read more
The Apostle and Evangelist St. John, called the Theologian, was the son of Salome and Zebedee and brother of James the greater. He was a fisherman by trade and while he and his brother were engaged in mending their nets in the boat by the lakeside with their father that Read more
James, the brother of John and son of Zebedee and Salome, is the most tantalizingly figures among the twelve. James is often styled the ‘the Greater’ (Jacobus Major) to mean older or taller, as he was first, called by Christ as His disciple, before Apostle James ‘the Less’, who was Read more
St. Mark was born in the city of Cyrene in Pentapolis, in the western part of present Libya, (North Africa) in the border with Egypt. Mark the Evangelist (Latin: Mārcus) is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples, and the founder of Read more
St. George (Gurgis/Jurjis) was born in Cappadocia, East Asia Minor (Present day Turkey) in around AD. 280, in a wealthy Christian family of noble royal origin. His Father Anastasios was an army chief of Emperor Diocletian, who was martyred for being a Christian by the Roman Governor, for refusing to Read more
The liturgical calendar of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast of Annunciation to Blessed Virgin St Mary – the Theotokos, twice in a year – during the season of Annunciation, five weeks before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and another on March 25. The Annunciation to BVM is Read more
On Mid Lent Wednesday, our Holy Church commemorates, an Assyrian King named Abgar V, who ruled Edessa (Oraha – presently called Urfa/Urahay, is a city in the border of Turkey and Iraq. During the public ministry of our Lord, King Abgar of Edessa, was suffering from an incurable disease, sent Read more
The liturgical calendar of the Indian Orthodox Church commemorates the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste on March 09. Emperor Constantine, in AD 313, had issued a decree of religious tolerance, that Christianity was an official religion and gave them freedom of worship, through the Edict of Milan. However, seven years later, Read more