Saint John the Baptist is the only figure after the Mother of God, Saint Mary, to whom the Church devotes several feasts per year: the Conception […]
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There is a mention in the history of the saints of a hermit saint named Marun who died in the beginning of the fifth century AD. “Marun”, in Syriac, is a diminutive of the word
Origen is one of the leading scholars and church teachers. He was born in the year 185 to Christian parents in the city of Alexandria. His father, the martyr Leonidas
The Orthodox Church commemorates the Russian Saint Andrei Rublev, the icon painter, or icon writer, as some like to say, on the Fourth.
