Ioannikios the Great, the righteous saint
Saint Ioannikios was born in a village called Merqa in the province of Bithynia. He was raised in piety, but he inherited from his parents their hostility to icons in […]
Niceta the Confessor, head of the Medicion Monastery
Our father Saint Niceta saw the light in Caesarea Bithynia. When his mother fell asleep, on the eighth day of his birth, he dedicated himself to God as Samuel