May 12, 2020 Saint Amphilohius of Pochaev: A Saint Hated by Demons ,, Life isn’t just a walk through the park’’ people often say this proverb. One person has everything from one’s childhood another person has…
May 6, 2020 Who Is the Real Saint George? Regularly, the secular media report stories about England’s current patron-saint. There are those who complain that St George is ‘a Turkish saint’; others project…
May 2, 2020 A Miracle Of Blessed Matrona of Moscow How wonderful wax candles smell. Their scent comforts your mind, and this makes prayer easier. “Lord, I thank Thee, for Thou art the good…
April 25, 2020 The Arian Prince Becomes Orthodox and Perishes on Pascha The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established the Feast of the Synaxis of Spanish and Portuguese Saints on December 28, 2018. The memory…
April 21, 2020 What Did the 20th Century Saints Say about the Coronavirus? Typically, such prophecies very quickly gain additions and embellishments from some not very intelligent “zealots”. They make up everything that comes to mind. They…
April 11, 2020 The Strange Case of Lazarus St. John’s Gospel records the story of Christ’s raising Lazarus from the dead as the last action of Christ before His entry into Jerusalem….
March 31, 2020 6 Curious Facts about Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa Fact 1. Several patron saints The future Saint Seraphim of Vyritsa was baptized with the name Vasily in honor of Saint Vasily the New,…
March 31, 2020 The Remains of the Great-Great-Great-Grandmother of the British Queen Have Been Discovered. What Does Orthodoxy Have to Do with It? The oldest of the identified ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II was a saint, who is also revered in the Orthodox Church. British scholars have…
March 24, 2020 St. Gregory I the Great, Pope of Rome: The Great Interlocutor On March 12/25, we recall St. Gregory I the Great, Pope of Rome (590-604), who was one of the most prominent representatives of Western…
March 21, 2020 Samson and the Origins of Monasticism The principles of monasticism are deeply embedded within the scriptures. The call to monasticism is twofold. It represents a call to adhere strictly and…
March 17, 2020 How Saint Valentina of Minsk Helped during the Great Patriotic War The feat of Jack reconnaissance group, which operated in 1944 behind the Nazis lines in East Prussia, is forever inscribed in the history of…
March 17, 2020 St. Gregory Palamas: Traditionalist or Innovator? St. Gregory Palamas (1296-1359), archbishop of Thessaloniki (1347-1359), was and is a controversial figure. His experience and teachings of the Uncreated energies of God was…
