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…

Communion from disposable cups

“Metropolitan” Epiphanius of the Ukraine and Disposable Cups

And the craziness goes on and on…. On the one hand, “Metropolitan” Epiphaniy of Ukraine, according to news releases, is saying that there is no reason to restrict church gatherings but that the faithful should venerate icons without kissing them…