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Feast Day/Commemorated: September 9 and Her Dormition July 25 The Story of Saints Anna and Joachim Saints Anna and Joachim are revered as the devoted parents of the Theotokos, the Mother of God. Their remarkable story begins after five decades of...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 19 The holy Patriarchs Alexander, John, and Paul of Constantinople, though living in different eras, each valiantly defended the Church against heretical teachings. Saint Alexander (325-340), serving as vicar to the first...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 19 The holy Patriarchs Alexander, John, and Paul of Constantinople, though living in different eras, each valiantly defended the Church against heretical teachings. Saint Alexander (325-340), serving as vicar to the first...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 13 By the divine providence of God, during the reign of the Persian monarch Isdegerdes, son of Sapor III, the fierce persecutions against the faithful, which had been initiated by Sapor II, were brought to an end, and the...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 17 The Holy Great Martyr Barbara lived during the reign of Emperor Maximian (305-311) in Heliopolis, Syria. Her wealthy pagan father, Dioscorus, sought to seclude his extraordinarily beautiful daughter in a tower after his...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 17 Saint Anthony the Great, born in Egypt in 251, is revered as the Father of monasticism. At twenty, orphaned and responsible for his sister, he heard the Gospel call to sell possessions and give to the poor, which he...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 15 Saint Anthimos (born Argyrios K. Bagianos) was born in Chios in 1869 to devout parents who instilled in him a Christian upbringing. Even as a child, he was recognized for his spiritual potential, with Saint Nektarios...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 10 / October 28 Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia, was born Theodorus Annitsalichos in a Cappadocian Christian village, became an orphan at a young age and was raised by his aunt. Educated in Niğde and Smyrna, he...