Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch, was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (ca. 357), and afterwards he was summoned to Antioch by the emperor Constantius to help combat the Arian heresy, and was appointed to that See. St Meletius struggled zealously against the Arian error, but through the intrigues of the heretics he was thrice deposed …
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A modern miracle took place in the small Peloponnesian town of Filiatra in 1943, during the dark days of the occupation of Greece by the Germans. This miracle has moved and continues to move, to this day, not only the people of Filiatra but also the people of all Greece.From the German Headquarters in Tripoli, …
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The story of the monastery’s building goes back a long way in remote, yet vivid legends. They have it that a lone priest lived here who had had advised ruler Lapusneanu to build a monastery on the place where a sycamore maple grew. Thus, the legend has it, was the way the first stone was …
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Saint Theodosius the Great lived during the fifth-sixth centuries, and was the founder of cenobitic monasticism. He was born in Cappadocia of pious parents. Endowed with a splendid voice, he zealously toiled at church reading and singing. Saint Theodosius prayed fervently that the Lord would guide him on the way to salvation. In his early …
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About the Orthodox icon is said to be a “Bible in Pictures”, “Window to Heaven”, “bearing grace” because through her church confesses the truth of faith revealed visually. With the Incarnation and Birth of His Word was God made man, at which his face becomes possible representation. Saviour Himself gave us His face printed on …
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St. Peter Movilă was the Metropolitan of Kiev (Ukraine) from 1632 until his death in 1646. He is known as a leading Orthodox theologian of the e18th century and as a reformer of the orthodox theological education. His feast day is the Romanian Orthodox Church on December 22. The first years Peter Movilă was born …
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Venerable Sophrony Sakharov was the one who edited and printed the writings of St. Siluan Athonite and can measure only one who reached this very special spiritual father of 20th century. Dweller First Holy Mountain Athos and then to Britain, where he founded the famous monastery “St. John the Baptist” in Essex, Reverend Sophrony Sakharov …
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At 98 years of the Great Union in Romania can be found only three albums with photos documentary made on December 1, 1918 at the Grand National Assembly of Alba Iulia. The only man who immortalized the event, Samoilă Mârza (1886-1967), has assembled those historical frames in an album titled Great Assembly of Alba Iulia …
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