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2024 has been proclaimed as the Romanian Orthodox Church’s homage year for the pastoral care of the sick and the commemoration of all the silverless healing saints. To contemporary eyes, this might seem rather strange, since the divorce between science and theology, in this case medical science, is paradigmatic, and the whole question of organized …

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Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, one of the Three Hierarchs [January 30], was born at Antioch in about the year 347 into the family of a military commander. His father, Secundus, died soon after the birth of his son. His mother, Anthusa, widowed at twenty years of age, did not seek to remarry but …

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