Saints
Prophet Samuel
Prophet Samuel The Prophet Samuel was the fifteenth and last of the Judges of Israel, living more than 1146 years before the Birth of…
Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of Catania
08-11He was a deacon from Catania in Sicily during the reign of Diocletian. During a persecution of Christians there, Euplus presented himself to the…
Our Holy Father Niphonus, Patriarch of Constantinople
08-11His All-Holiness Nephon II of Constantinople, also Nifon II, was the Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods, from 1486 to 1488 and then from…
St. Nonna, Mother of St. Gregory the Theologian
08-05St. Nonna, the mother of St. Gregory the Theologian, was the daughter of Christians named Philotatos and Gorgonia, who raised her in Christian…
Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus
08-04The Seven Youths hid themselves in a certain cave near Ephesus in the year 250, to escape the persecution of Decius. By divine grace, a sleep came…
Isaacius, Dalmatus, & Faustus, Ascetics of the Dalmation Monastery
08-03Of these, Saint Isaacius is celebrated also on May 30. He became a monk at an early age and was a worker of every virtue; a zealot for the Orthodox…
Translation of the Relics of Stephen the Protomartyr
08-02After the First Martyr had been stoned to death (see Dec. 27), Gamaliel, his teacher, encouraged certain of the Christians to go by night…
The Holy Seven Maccabee Children, Solomone Their Mother, and Eleazar Their…
08-01The Holy Seven Maccabee Children, Solomone Their Mother, and Eleazar Their TeacherThe names of the Holy Maccabees are Abim, Anthony, Guria, Eleazar,…
