St Luke, (Latin name ‘Lucanus’) the glorious, holy, Apostle and Evangelist is numbered among the Seventy Apostles, was native of Antioch, Syria and a disciple of apostles (Col. 4: 14). Some scholars believe that Luke was an enlightened Greek physician who lived in the Greek city of Antioch in Ancient Syria. Some other scholars and Read more
Ossyo’s (Esia, Osio) was born to parents Fanitheros and Gurgunia both famous and staunch believers in Christ. They were childless for long time, but they believed fervently a child would be born to them and that child was named Ossyo, meaning ‘doctor’ in Syriac and Osios means ‘Holy’, ‘Pious’ or ‘Venerable’ person in Greek. He was born in the town Farfa, Rome. His father was brother to King Theodosius of Sakadasyus. He studied in Read more
St. Athanasius also called St. Athanasius of Alexandria, St. Athanasius the Great, St Athanasius the Confessor or Saint Athanasius the Apostolic, is recognised Christian theologian, ardent ascetic, Church Father and ecclesiastical statesman, the chief defender of Christian orthodoxy against Arianism in the 4th century. He is venerated as a Christian saint, labelled as the ‘Father of Orthodoxy’, for his absolute dedication to the doctrine of Christ’s Read more
LL H.G. Yuhanon Mar Athanasious was born on 21 March 1928 as the elder son of Vaddkkal Varkey and Annamma Chakkalaparampil Puthenangadi, Kottayam and called as Mani, (C.V. Mani). He had his primary studies at CMS School Chalukunnu Kottayam and CMS College Kottayam. After his academic education, he worked as a tutor in St: Thomas College, Pala. There after he joined Read more
Philipose Mar Dionysius was born in 1781, as the son of Kunjandy Mathen Tharakan Anjilimootil and Annamma of Maliyekkal, Maramon in the Anjilimootil family in Pallippad, near Cheppad, Karthikapally Taluk of Alapuzha district in Kerala, India. Punnathara Mar Dionysius Metropolitan (Mar Thoma XI) died on May 17, 1825. To select Read more
Patriarch Mar Peter III was born at Mosul, Iraq in 1799, in a well-known Christian family of Turabdin in south east Turkey. He spent his childhood at the monastery of Hananiah (St Annanias) Monastery also known as Kurkkuma Dayro or Deir al-Zafaran Monastery. He completed his theological studies and was ordained Priest, there. Thus, Read more
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
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