Samuel was a man chosen by God for God, from his birth until his death. He faithfully served God and the nation of unified Israel as it transitioned from the time of judges to the rule of kings,in several important positions during his life, earning God’s favour because he knew Read more…
Eutychus, whose name means ‘fortunate’, was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian and St Paul. After hearing about Christ, the Savior, he became a disciple and servant of the Lord, worked with the Apostle Paul and together they preached in the early journeys. He belonged to the Read more…
We pray for the departed, for the same reasons as when praying for a living person! Prayer for the faithful departed, as well as the invocation of saints have been long cherished beliefs and practices of the early Christian Church and were expressions of the Christian faith, well founded on Read more…
The Holy Martyr Longinus, the Centurion, was a Roman soldier, who served in Roman garrison, based in Jerusalem in Judea, under the command of the then prefect and Governor, Pontius Pilate, of Judea during 26-36 AD. He was assigned with the duty of crucifixion of the Lord as well as Read more…
Mar Gregorios Yuhanon, was born in 1695 in Bakhdida (Beth Khdeda – house of youths) earlier name for Kooded or Karakosh (Qaraqosh) near Mosul. He was a son of priest Isahak and Semma and belonged to the family of St. Yeldho Mar Baselius (Kothamangalam Bava), whom our Church commemorates on Read more…
The liturgical calendar of the Indian Orthodox Church commemorates the Seventy (Seventy-two) evangelists, whom our Lord chose in addition to the Twelve Apostles; and they were sent by in pairs, so that they could preach the gospel in all those places where Christ Himself was about to visit. Our Lord Read more…
St Theodore was called Sanctified, as he had purified his heart of passions and tuned his body worthy to be a temple of the holy Spirit and because he was the first in his monastery ordained to the priesthood. St Theodore who was born in the Upper Thebaid, to rich Read more…
St. Pachomius, the Great, venerable hermit father, was an early Egyptian ascetic, both a desert Father and a founder of coenobitic monasticism in Egypt. He was born in Thebes (Upper Thebaid), Egypt around A.D. 290, to pagan parents. His name, in his native Coptic, Pachom, means ‘eagle’. He received an excellent secular education, had a good character, Read more…
The two Saints Methodius and Cyril were brothers, who brought Orthodoxy to the Slavic peoples of central Europe in the ninth century. Michael (Methodius) and Constantine (Cyril) were born early in the 9th century in Thessaloniki into a noble illustrious and pious Greek senatorial family, living in the Greek city of Read more…
Mar Julius (Yulios), the bishop of Rome, son of Rustics, was born in Rome or was a native of Rome. Further details of his parents or childhood is not available. Rome was and remains the historic centre of the Western Patriarchate and remains a holy place of Orthodox pilgrimage after Read more…