Saints
Job the Prophet
05-06This faithful servant of God, the most perfect icon of all virtue, and especially of patience, was the son of Zare and Bosorra, andwas the fifth from…
Saint Irene the Great Martyr
05-05Saint Irene was the daughter of a princelet called Licinius; named Penelope by her parents, through a divine revelation she was brought to faith in…
Saint Pelagia the Nun-martyr of Tarsus
05-04This Saint was from Tarsus of Cilicia and contested in martyrdom under Diocletian, in 284: she was cast into a bull fashioned of bronze, which had…
Saints Timothy and Maura The Martyrs
05-03The holy Martyrs Timothy and Maura were husband and wife. Timothy was from Penapeis in the Thebaid, a reader in the Church, and had been married to…
Removal of the Relics of St. Athanasius the Great
05-02In the half-century after the First Ecumenical Council held in Nicaea in 325, if there was one manwhom the Arians feared and hated more intensely…
St Elizabeth the Wonderworker
04-24Saint Elizabeth was born in Heraclea of Thrace. She lived in virginity and exhausted herself with ascetical labours and every kind of…
Symeon the Holy Martyr & Bishop of Persia
04-17This Martyr was Bishop of the royal cities Seleucia and Ctesiphon in Persia. As the number of Christians increased in Persia, building churches and…
