Lilies of the Mother of God is a blessing to the foremost part of the village preserved from the island of Kefalonia, Greece. In the village church, every year, the same miracle happens: lilies placed on the icon of Virgin Mary, although completely dry, bloom for the second time, marvelously, so on August 15, when …

The Monks Simeon, Fool-for-Christ, and his Fellow-Ascetic John were Syrians, and they lived in the sixth century at the city of Edessa. From childhood they were bound by close ties of friendship. The older of them, Simeon, was unmarried and lived with his aged mother. John, however, although he was married, lived with his father …