Simon was the son of Cleopas, and Cleopas was the brother of Joseph the Betrothed. Accordingly, Simon is, according to custom, the cousin of the Lord Jesus.
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On February 10, the Church celebrates the martyr Saint Charalambous, whose name means luminous or shining joy. He was a priest
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Saint Theophanes was born in Constantinople in the year 759 AD, during the time of Emperor Constantine V, known as “Al-Zubli” (742-775 AD), into a family of
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Theodosius was born in a village in Cappadocia called Mogarisos to pious parents, where his mother became a monk in her old age, and her son Theodosius became her father.
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
Its origins: On the fifteenth of January, our church celebrates our righteous father Paul the Thebe, the first of the solitary hermits in Christian history.
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The time of his life: Saint Parthenius lived during the time of Emperor Constantine the Great (337 AD). He was the son of a deacon in Byzantine Melitopolis named Christodoulos. His work: It was his work
AINOS: meaning praises, and it is called so because it is chanted in front of every verse of Psalm 150, which begins with the word “praise” and is chanted in
He is one of the fathers of the fourth century AD. St. Gregory the Theologian described him as “a pious, meek, humble heart whose lights of the Holy Spirit shine.”
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Saint George (whose name means “the plowman”) was born in the city of Lod in Palestine in the year 280 AD to Christian parents who were wealthy and…
