In the life of saints there is no tomorrow. Maybe just a night. Or a continuous today. A truth that I understand the Archdiocese of Râmnic Stânişoara Monastery, listening to Father Abbot Lawrence, with whom I walked the paths of Pious Saint Neophytos and Meletios, who had some cracks in the rock here. This “last …

The Holy Great Martyr John the New of Suceava, lived in the fourteenth century in the city of Trebizond. He was a merchant, devout and firm in his Orthodoxy, and generous to the poor. Once, he happened to be sailing on a ship while pursuing his trading activities. The captain of the ship was not …

Saint John the Wallachian is a martyr of the medieval times. He was from Wallachia, or the „Romanian Country”, that is today the southern part of Romania and died in Istanbul, because he refused to convert to Islam, on 12 May 1662. St. John was born probably a few years before the middle of the …

Saint John Cassian the Roman was born around 360, probably in Lesser Scythia (in Dacia Pontica). His pious Christian parents gave him an excellent classical education, and also instructed him in the Holy Scriptures and in the spiritual life. St John entered a monastery in the diocese of Tomis, where his friend and relative St …

Our Father Pious Daniil the Hermit was one of the greatest saints whom it grew Moldovan land, sea and teacher of wilderness adviser monks. This saint of our nation was born into a family of poor people on the estate of the monastery of Saint Nicholas in Radauti, the century XV, receiving the baptismal name …

The Martyr soldiers are a special category of saints in the Christian Tradition of the first centuries. Together with the more famous St. George, St. Demetrius or St. Theodor Stratilates, Saint Mercurius is considered as being a model of a Roman soldier who became a soldier of Christ against the polytheism. The life of Saint …

Saint Anthimus of Iberia was one of the most highly educated people of his time. He was fluent in many languages, including Greek, Romanian, Old Slavonic, Arabic, and Turkish and well-versed in theology, literature, and the natural sciences. He was unusually gifted in the fine arts—in painting, engraving, and sculpture in particular. He was famed …

Iubitorul de Dumnezeu şi voievodul cel înţelept al ro­mânilor, Sfântul Neagoe Basarab este prăznuit astăzi, 26 septembrie, cu multă evlavie de credincioşii or­to­docşi români. Pentru faptele sale cele mari, plăcute lui Dumnezeu şi oamenilor, care au rămas moştenire sfântă poporului român bine­cre­din­cios, Sfântul Voievod Nea­goe Basarab, domnul Ţării Ro­mâ­neşti, a fost trecut în rândul sfinţilor, …