Saint Anna (also Ann or Anne, from Hebrew Hannahחַנָּה, meaning “favor” or “grace”) of David‘s house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Lives
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Greek ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς) is a Christian […]
St. Nectarios of Aegina
( 1846- 1920) Greek: Άγιος Νεκτάριος Αιγίνης, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina, was officially recognized as a Saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in […]
Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
was a Christian martyr, who lived in the early 4th century During the Middle Ages, he came to be revered as one of the most important Orthodox military […]
St Pelagia St Taisia
“The Harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you” On the 8th October our Church honours the memory of two women saints. Their names are Pelagia and […]
Saint Kosmas the Aetolian as a Missionary Part 2
What did this man not do for the benefit of the Greek nation! First, the young Christian women serving as wet-nurses to the tyrants’ children in the palaces of […]
The life of Saint Theophilos the Neomartyr (celebrated on 7/24/2024)
Saint Theophilos was born in 1617 AD and was handsome and athletic. Working as a sailor he did not want to serve on a Turkish ship. Greece was under […]
St. Panteleimon, the Great Martyr
During the end of the 3rd century AD St. Panteleimon, the Great Doctor and Martyr, was born. His father, Eustrogios, was not only very rich but was well known […]
Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-praised
Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-praised The Miracle of Saint Euphemia the All-Praised: The holy Great Martyr Euphemia (September 16) suffered martyrdom in the city of Chalcedon in the year 304, […]
Holy Athonite elders. Archimandrite Isaac-Atallah
[1937-1998] “lucky the man who longs for God as a lover longs for his beloved” WHAT good does this ascetic way do for the world? “The monk purifies himself, […]