Daily Bread

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

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