Tikhon, Patriarch of Russia
He was the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia between 1917 and 1925. The position of patriarch was suspended by Tsar Peter the Great in the eighth century […]
Ephestatius the Great, Bishop of Antioch
Today's service (February 21) describes Saint Ephestatius as the good shepherd and the double-edged sword, the one who defeats heresy and the one who has a heavenly life.
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
Saint Irenaeus, bishop of the city of Lyon in Gaul (present-day France), lived in the second century, and was most likely martyred in the year 202.
procession of the Holy Spirit
“And when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me” (John 15:26)