Category Saints

Old church in Ireland

St. Carthage (Carthach) the Elder

Feast on March 5 St. Carthage was an Irish bishop and abbot of the 6th century. He was the successor of St. Kieman of Ossory. He was the son or grandson of a local king. The saint is mainly known as a…

St. Gerasimos of the Jordan

St. Gerasimus of the Jordan

Gerasimus left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He departed for the region Thebaid in the Egyptian desert, later again returning to his native Lycia. About the middle of the 5th century, Saint Gerasimus went to…

Nun Martyr Evdokia

HOLY MARTYR ST. EVDOKIA THE SAMARITAN

Memory celebrated March 1 Eudokia was a woman of Samaria who lived during the second century in Heliopolis. She was a pagan of immense beauty and became very wealthy by attracting wealthy lovers. As a harlot, she never considered the…

Our Holy Father St. John Cassian

Our venerable and God-bearing Father John Cassian was a 4th/5th century monastic saint known for his writings on the monastic life and for correctives of the anti-Pelagian writings of St. Augustine of Hippo. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is February 29 (celebrated on February 28 in non-leap years),…

St. Timothy of Symbola

Venerable Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia Commemorated on February 21 Saint Timothy of Symbola was of Italian descent. He became a monk at a young age and pursued asceticism at a monastery called “Symbola”, in Asia Minor near Mount Olympus. At…