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
Andrei Rublev Saint
The Orthodox Church commemorates the Russian Saint Andrei Rublev, the icon painter, or icon writer, as some like to say, on the Fourth.
Ambrosius of Optino Monastery
Alexander Mikhailovich Grinkov (Saint Ambrose) saw the light in the Tambov region of Russia, on November 23, 1812.