Troparion Commemoration of the righteousness with praise and you enough is thy Lord’s testimony, Forerunner. You showed that you really prophets and more honest than that and baptized in the one preached waters you worthy. Therefore, when you really need to, enjoying good and those in hell have promised him that God was manifest in …
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, the holiest of women, as the one who was deemed worthy of the exceptional honor of giving birth to the Son of God and Savior of the world, is venerated in the Orthodox Church as the first and greatest of all saints, being “more honorable than the Cherubim and incomparably more …
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Holy Martyr Panteleimon is one of the most famous and venerated saints of the Church. Commemorated on 27 July is called “doctor without silver,” thereby revealing how he pretended not to anybody any kind of payment for the favors committed. It is considered the patron of doctors and healer of the sick, the doctor follows …
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The Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was named Pantoleon. His mother St Euboula (March 30) was a Christian. She wanted to raise her son in the Christian Faith, but she died when the future martyr was just a …
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Holy Prophet Elijah the Tishbite is celebrated on July 20. Saint Elias was the son of Sovac, a priest of the Old Law, who lived in the city TESVA, Gilead (Israel). From the name of this city, we have the name of the prophet of Tishbite. Enjoys a special honor from the Church, if we …
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In the early 16th century, Montanina Ottoni, a lady from Matelica, found this weeping icon abandoned in a thicket, according to the legend presented on a website for the city of Fabriano in the province of Ancona, in the Marche region of Italy, in whose cathedral — the Cathedral of San Venanzio — the holy …
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The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul were two different men, called by Jesus Christ to proclaim the same Gospel of merciful love and the salvation of the world. Saint Peter was named Simon before he met Jesus, who changed his name to Cephas, which means “rock.” He was born in Bethsaida of Galilee; his father’s …
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St. Mark the Evangelist opens his Gospel with the beginning of preaching among men and of the service of Christ in the world. And it does not take long to portray in its true meaning Malachi’s prophecy about John the Baptist, an angel who will go before the face of the Lord: “Behold, I send …
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He who face Cross shining in the sky more than the sun you saw the victory sign Lord well you discovered that armed out all enemies you’ve overcome, now and as those who bow before the icon your Holy king Constantine gives us, along with your good mother, Empress Helena, help those who sing to …
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In the 1970s, when speaking about Christ in public was not only forbidden but also extremely dangerous, a professor at the University of Letters in Bucharest dared to include the Bible as a subject of study in her courses. She was one of the most important voices in Romanian culture. Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, who, toward the …
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