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Luminătorul şi dascălul lumii, stîlpul şi întărirea Bisericii, propovăduitorul pocăinţei, Sfîntul Ioan Gură de Aur, s-a născut în Antiohia Siriei, din părinţi necredincioşi, care ţineau de credinţa cea elinească, însă slăviţi şi bogaţi. Tatăl lui era voievod şi se numea Secund, iar mama sa, Antuza. Cînd a venit în vîrstă, a fost dat de părinţii …

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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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John was a contemporary of influential people. A glorious constellation of geniuses was the light during those years that St. John preached in Constantinople. In the West were Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine. In the east were three Cappadocian Saints: Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, educated, magnetic and fascinating. They were men that St. …

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One question that was constantly put to Fr. Arsenius was whether, given the rich experience of his life, with its heavy years of imprisonment and periods of retreat in the wilderness, a miracle had been worked on him. Father deftly avoided a direct answer, judging the question to be more of curiosity than of use. …

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