Mar Epiphanius of Salamis – July 25 I (310 AD – 403 AD)

Mar Epiphanius is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. He was a zealous bishop and a revered ascetic, who gained a reputation as a strong defender of Orthodoxy. Epiphanius was born in a Hellenised Christian Jewish family, in the small settlement of Besanduk, near Eleutheropolis (modern-day Beth Guvring, Jibrin) meaning ‘house of strong men’, in Read more…