Saint Patrick was born around 385/387, in the village of Bannavem Taberniae, in a part of Britain now known as Wales. His name Latin Patricius, meaning high-born. His parents were part of the Christian minority of Britain; his father, Calpurnius, was a deacon and a Roman county decurion (tax official), the son of Read more…
St Onesimus, a fugitive slave of St. Philemon, was a Phrygian by birth. Apostle St. Paul mentions him, as a dear brother and son, while in chains, in his prison epistle to St. Philemon. He was a Christian of distinguished lineage, living in the city of Colossae, Phrygia. The fugitive Read more…
St Isaac of Nineveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian (Ishaq an-Naynuwī), is a 7th century saint known for his strict asceticism and ascetic writings. St Isaac was an anchorite, bishop, theologian monk, born in AD 613, is also remembered as Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar. His place of birth is ambiguous, though some sources attribute Read more…
At the age of 10, he became seriously ill. During his illness, he saw the St Mary, Mother of God in a dream, who promised to heal him. Several days later there was a religious procession in Kursk, with the locally revered miracle-working icon of the Mother of God. Due Read more…
St Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, was born at Caesarea, Cappadocia (now Kayseri in Turkey) in A. D. 335. He came from a large religious Christian family of ten children, comprising five boys and five girls. He was a younger sibling in a distinguished family that gave the Church many years of service Read more…
The holy, Apostle Tychicus (Tychikos) was one among the Seventy Apostles, a spiritual student, disciple and companion of St. Paul the Apostle. He was born in Ephesus, in the Roman province of Asia. He was a trustworthy servant of the Lord from Asia Minor. True, Tychicus is only mentioned five times in the 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…