His Holiness Baselios Augen I was born on 26 June 1884 at Perumbavoor, Vengola, to Abraham Kathanar of Thuruthi Chettakulathukara family and Annamma, daughter of Valiyal Mathai at Puthenkurrissu. His father Fr. Abraham was a Scholar of Syriac language. The family as a whole led a very pious and spiritual Read more
St. Ambrose, (Latin: Aurelius Ambrosius) Bishop of Milan, was a theologian, and one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century, in the western world. He was trained in rhetoric and law and was famous as a preacher and champion of orthodoxy especially against the Arians. He was Read more
St. Nicholas is one of the most widely venerated and best loved among saints in all Christendom. The honour extended to him includes not only the Orthodox and Roman Catholics, but Protestant denominations as well. St Nicholas preserved true chastity, with a pure mind always contemplating on the Lord and Read more
Saint Barbara, known as the Great Martyress in Orthodox Churches, was a Christian saint and martyr, who lived in the 3rd century AD. The legend of St Barbara says that she was born in a wealthy aristocratic family, around 300 A.D. at Nicomedia in Bithynia, modern Isnik, Turkey. Lovely and Read more
Saint John the Hermit, also known as St John the Solitary or Silent or Hesychast (Greek), was an a fifth-century ascetic saint in Palestine. He was a theologian and theoretician of the spiritual life, who has introduced the discussion of passions in Syriac Christianity and taught the gradual healing from Read more
LL H. G. Thoma Mar Dionysius, former metropolitan of Niranam Diocese, and founder of Mount Tabor Dayara, Pathanapuram. Mar Thoma Dionysius was born on 8th June 1887 at Mavelikara as the son of Kallumpurathu Poovathur Mathew and Pallivathukal Aleyamma. C M Thomas’ mother Aleyamma lost her first child during pregnancy, Read more
• Evening: Luke 1: 57-80 / Mark 10: 13-16 **• Morning: Matthew 11: 11-19 • Holy Qurbana• Old Testament ReadingsGenesis 21: 9-21; Exodus 2: 1-10; Ruth 4: 13-22; Isaiah 62: 1-12(Ps. 127: 1 – 5) ** • Epistle Readings1 John 4:1-10 Gal 4:18-30(1 John 3: 1-3; Ephesians 6: 1-4; Colossians 3: Read more
Nahum was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Tanakh, also called the Hebrew Bible and The Old Testament. His name means ‘comforter’, ‘consolation’ or ‘repose’ and he was from the town of Alqosh (Elkosh) (Nahum 1: 1), in northern Iraq and Capharnaum (Capernaum) of Northern Galilee. and referred as an Elkoshite. He was a very nationalistic Hebrew and lived amongst Read more
Jacob (Yacoub), was born as the son of a Priest, at Serugh (Serug, Suruc) in the village Kurtam a village on the Euphrates to the west of Harran which is very close to the Mesopotomian village Edessa (Urhoy), modern Urfa in South East Turkey, also known as Kurtak. He was Read more
Dionysius Barsleebi (Dionysius Bar Salibi, baptised Jacob, was a 12th century bishop of the Orthodox Syriac Church. He assumed the name ‘Dionysius’ when consecrated to the bishopric. He is a well-known, able and most voluminous, prolific writer and spokesman of the Syriac language of the 12th century. He was like Bar-Hebraeus, Read more