Category Saints

Leave Thy Homeland!

St. Theophan the Recluse The Lord had said unto Abraham: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee (Gen. 12:1). This is an explicit image…

St. Anastasia the Roman

The Martyr Anastasia the Roman was born in Rome to well-born parents and left an orphan at the age of three. As an orphan, she was taken into a women’s monastery near Rome, where the abbess was a Nun named Sophia, a nun of…

Sermon on the Seven Maccabee Brothers (1 August)

by + B. P. Today, we begin a period of fasting. In some ways, this brings a certain sadness to us due to the solemnity and struggle of holy fasting. However, the Holy Church today finds a way to bring…