Chapter 36-40
Chapter Thirty-Six: Prophecies about the greatness of Christ and about [the flight] to Egypt...etc. 1 - But what king ever reigned and conquered […]
Saint Barlaam, abbot of the Caves Monastery in Kiev
Introduction: Our venerable father Barlaam was a companion of Saint Anthony (see his biography in the Lives of the Saints). He was also one of the first abbots of the Caves Monastery
Joel the prophet
Joel, son of Penuel, is the second prophecy in the order of the twelve minor prophets in the Bible after Hosea. prophesy in
Saint Hezichius, priest of Jerusalem
We have little information about him. Perhaps he was born in Jerusalem during the fourth century AD. He grew up with a love of piety and virtue. A young man became a disciple of the saint
Malachi the prophet
He is one of the prophets of return from exile. His name means messenger or angel, and the Prophet himself borrowed it, as is accepted, from his book
Matthias the Apostle, one of the Twelve
He was among the seventy apostles. After the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the betrayal and suicide of Judas, lots fell on Matthias to be counted among the Twelve.
Roman Markella
Saint Markella, a model of Christian widows, was born in the year 330 into the care of one of the famous Roman families. She was married against her will and then widowed
Matrona of Saint Bara Constantinople
She was born in Pamphylia in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey) in the middle of the fifth century AD. She was married when she was three or fourteen years old
Maryam the Egyptian
Saint Mary was born in the Egyptian countryside in the early fourth century AD, and when she was twelve years old she went secretly
Lazarus the Wonderworker, the righteous father who asceticized on Mount Galicius
Lazarus was born in 968 AD. Lazarus’s biography was unique, as his parents approached his upbringing with the approach of knowing that the boy
Kyriakos, the tourist saint
Saint Kyriakos was born in the city of Corinth (Greece) in the year 448 to a priest father and a pious mother. He was raised to love Christ in his care
Cosmas of Jerusalem, the founder, Bishop of Mayuma
Cosmas was born in Jerusalem, but he was orphaned early, so the father of Saint John of Damascus, Sergius, took him to him, perhaps because of their kinship. Long live Cosmas and John