RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
This holy and beloved Western Saint, the patron of France, was born in Pannonia (modern-day Hungary) in 316, to a pagan military family stationed there. Soon the family returned home to Italy, where Martin grew up. He began to go…
source: Wikipedia Saint Tysilio (+640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar, son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor Iscoed, and an ecclesiastic who took a prominent part in the affairs of Wales during the distressful period at the opening…
source: wikipedia Saint Cybi (in Welsh) or Saint Cuby (in Cornish) was a 6th-century Cornish bishop, saint and, briefly, king, who worked largely in North Wales: his biography is recorded in two slightly variant medieval ‘lives’. According to the ‘Life of Saint Cybi’, this saint was the son of Salomon, a ‘warrior prince’, generally…
We have not yet felt the huge after-shock of the coming of television which in a short while has managed to secure a niche for itself in almost every home. Its powers of persuasion and attraction have proved to be…
St. Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia was born in Northumbria in England around 638. At the age of seven, he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24) Bishop of York. Between…
Calling a synod meeting to discuss the change of the Church calendar, “Archbishop” Chrysostom (Papadopoulos) (Archbishop of Athens from February 23, 1923, to October 22, 1938) answered the hierarchs objecting to the change of the calendar by stating, “The anathema…
First Epistle of Patriarch Tikhon to the Fold Humble Tikhon, by the Grace of God Patriarch of Moscow and all Russias, to the beloved in the Lord bishops, priests, and all faithful children of the Orthodox Church of Russia. “That…
FATHER AND FRIEND! I should have answered you long about the growing winter of faith and prayer and the means of struggle against this. But the same vanity which, as you acknowledge, disperses reverent feelings, has also deprived me of…
source: St. Clether (also known as Clederus or Cleder) was a son of King Brychan Brycheiniog, ruler of what was later Brecknockshire, in south Wales. After his father’s death, Clether ruled an area of northern Dyfed, based around Nevern. He…
