Gregory IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Who is he? His name was originally Ghantus the Blacksmith. He is the son of Girgis bin Ghantous from Abiy, one of the villages of the West (Mount Lebanon), […]
Theophanes the Recluse, the righteous saint
The Russian Church canonized him in 1988 AD on the occasion of the millennium feast of the Baptism of the Russian people. He is rightly considered one of the most prominent makers of the spiritual renaissance
By the right saint
This righteous man had a weak physical structure since his birth, as he continued to suffer throughout his life from many ailments that affected various organs
Alexei Mischev
He was born in 1860. His father is a choir conductor in the service of Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow. The family lived in humble circumstances. She was never his