Gregory the Wonderworker
He was born in the new city of Caesarea in the Land of Pontus (currently in Turkey) around the year 213 AD. His parents were pagans, and his name was Theodorus […]
Saba, Archbishop of Serbia and founder of the Athosian Khalendar Monastery
His birth and upbringing: Saint Saba was born in 1169. He was the third son of the Grand Prince of Serbia, Stefanos Namenja the Pious. The time of baptism took a name
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Theodorus of Tarsus, Bishop of Canterbury
We celebrate him and the Latin Church on September 19. Theodoros was born in the year 602 in Tarsus (Cilicia), which is the city of Saint Paul the Apostle.
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Theodorus, army commander
The oldest testimony about Saint Theodore is a sermon delivered by Saint Gregory of Nyssa. We don't know anything about his homeland. We just know that
Theodorus the Studite the Confessor
His upbringing and times Saint Theodoros was born in Constantinople in the year 759 AD, in the bosom of aristocracy. His time was characterized by a brutal war
Arsanius the Cappadocian Saint
Saint Arsanius was born in the late nineteenth century in the village of Farasa, which is one of six villages that remained Christian in the country.
Saint Anthony, the martyr
This saint’s name was “Ruh” before he was converted to the Christian faith. He was one of the nobles of the city of Damascus, and he lived near a monastery
Plato, abbot of the Monastery of Sokotheion
He was orphaned following the death of his parents due to the plague that swept through Constantinople and its environs in the year 747 AD. He was thirteen years old at that time. Catch up with someone
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The holy icon, a historical and doctrinal overview
The beginning of the use of icons: The historian Eusebius narrates that he saw a statue of the Lord Jesus in Banias, Mount Hermon, and that he saw real icons of the apostles.
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Triumph of Orthodoxy
Leo V and the Icons: Nikephoros, the Minister of Finance, took control of the court of Ireneiah, arrested her, and imprisoned her in a monastery. The era of this philosophy ended
The Church is on the threshold of the second millennium
The Roman Golden Age 843-1025 Patriarch: The Church kept pace with the state in its systems. The Church was one unified, just as the empire was one unified. And as permissible
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