THE LIFE OF HOLY SYMEON THE FOOL FOR CHRIST by Leontius of Neapolis

Krueger, Derek. Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s Life and the Late Antique City. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. [121] The Life and Conduct[1] of Abba Symeon Called the Fool for the Sake of Christ Written by Leontius, Most Pious Bishop of…

On the Feast Day of the Holy Prophet Elias

Sermon by Protopriest Leonid Kolchev (+1944) Today we prayerfully mark the honor of one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament, Prophet Elias (the “Tishbite”). We are accustomed to thinking the prophets are people who predict the future. That…

A Great Helper on July 17th According to the Orthodox Calendar

The Life of the Great-Martyr Marina Marina was born in Southern Anatolia, specifically from Pisidia in Antioch, at the end of the third century during the reign of Claudius II (268-270). She was the only daughter of noble pagan parents.…

What You Didn’t Know About St. Ambrose of Milan’s Older Sister

Marcellina was born in Trier, Gaul around the year 330 into a Roman Christian family. Her father served as Praetorian prefect of Gaul. The sister of Ambrose of Milan, she was older than her two brothers. About the year 354 Ambrosius, their father…

What the Atheist Soviet Pilot Saw that Made Him a Believer

After the Second World War, there circulated in Russian émigré circles a brochure entitled, “Why I also believe in God”. In it, the author, originally an atheist pilot, describes how he was commissioned to track down a group of monks…

With Whom Will Archbishop Theophan of Poltava Be Left?

Thank you to Brother Michael Archbishop Theophan’s of Poltava meeting with a group of modernist clergy and liberal professors, who came to the Moscow All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918, was a remarkable event. Vladika himself often liked to recall the…