RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
St. Machalus (Maughold, Machalus, Maccul, Maccaille) was first the leader of a band of robbers, who then preyed on travelers. When St. Patrick was traveling, the group made a plan to trick him by putting one of their gang, named…
Saint Faro (or Burgundofaro; died c. 675 AD), Count of Guines, was bishop of Meaux. The family to which Faro belonged is known as the Faronids and is named after him. Burgundofaro was of an ancient noble Burgundian family. His brothers were Saint Waldebert, count of Guines, Ponthieu, and Saint-Pol who became…
Saint Wulfram of Fontenelle or Saint Wulfram of Sens ( c. 640–20 March 703[1]) was the Archbishop of Sens. His life was recorded eleven years after he died by the monk Jonas of Fontenelle. However, there seems to be little consensus about the precise dates…
Source: orthodoxwiki The holy and right-believing King Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – March 18, 978/979) succeeded his father, Edgar of England, as King of England in 975, but was murdered after a reign of only a few years. As the murder was…
Saint Benedict was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. At 14 years of age the saint was sent off by his parents for studies at Rome, but vexed at the immorality there surrounding him, he…
He was the son of Theophanes and Pandia. Educated by a local priest, Father Galatone, known for his learning and piety. Even as a young man, Nicodemus was disgusted by the misspent lives of his contemporaries, and was drawn to the monastic life. He tried to join the monks in the…
Saint Gregory Dialogus, Pope of Rome, was born in Rome in about the year 540. His grandfather was Pope Felix, and his mother Sylvia and aunts Tarsilla and Emiliana were likewise enumerated by the Roman Church to the rank of…
source: orthodoxwiki Saint Constantine of Cornwall, also Constantine of Dumnonia, Constantine III of Britain, Saint Custennin, Custennin ap Cado, Custennin ap Cadwr, Costentyn or Constantine of Govan (ca. 520-576 AD) is a 6th-century Cornish saint that is identified with a minor British king Constantine, who came to repentance at St Davids monastery…
March 11 is the Feast of Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee “Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first…
