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), […]
Gregory IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Continue reading »
“I have trusted in you from the womb; from my mother’s womb you have been my guide” (Psalm 70:6). The ancient enemy of our salvation felt his powerful and implacable adversary in...
Saint Raphael Hawawini is the first Orthodox bishop to be consecrated in the New World. He was born in the city of Beirut on November 8, 1860 AD.
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
Throughout the ages, Christians have been nourished by the lives of the saints: the apostles, the high priests, the desert monks, the martyrs, and the tourists. Today Christians face pressure
Basil, Bishop of Keneshma, the new martyr Continue reading »
A type of saint was famous in the sixteenth century in Russia for being the madmen of Christ. The most famous of them was Basil the Blessed, whom the Church celebrates.
She is the granddaughter of Queen Victoria (Queen of England) and the daughter of the governor of Hesse in Germany. I was born in Germany on the first of November of the year
Saint Alexander was born on February 11, 1872 in the city of Kremenetz in Donetsk. He was born into a pious family. He was
Alexander Hotovitzky, Saint Martyr and Evangelist of America Continue reading »
(The Church is heaven on earth, and in it the God of heaven resides and works.) Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople (died 733) Doctrine and Worship: It is narrated in (History
Chapter Four: Orthodox Worship or Heaven on Earth Continue reading »
Your Beatitudes Patriarchs of the Ancient Sees Except Rome His BeatitudeTHEOPHILOS IIIPatriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine His BeatitudeIGNATIUS
At the request and invitation of Tsar Vladimir and his wife Olga, clerics were sent from Constantinople on the bank of the Dnieper River in the city of Kiev, Ukraine, and they were baptized en masse.
The founder of the Orthodox Church in Japan was the great Saint Nicholas Kasatkin (1836 - 1912) when he arrived in Japan in 1861.
