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Feast Day/Commemorated: September 16 The Holy Great Martyr Euphemia, the daughter of Christian aristocrats, suffered for her faith in 304 AD in Chalcedon, during the persecution under the Roman Emperor Diocletian. The Proconsul Priscus issued a decree...

Feast Day/Commemorated: April 9 The Holy Newly-Appeared Martyrs of Lesbos, Saints Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene, were killed by the invading Turks on Bright Tuesday, April 9, 1463, just ten years after the Fall of Constantinople. For nearly five...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 17 The Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit was a soldier stationed in Amáseia, Pontus (Asia Minor), during the reign of the Emperor Galerius around 306 AD. Serving under the commander Brincus, Theodore was...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 19 The Martyr Andrew Stratelates was a highly respected military commander serving under the Roman Emperor Maximian (284-305). He was beloved throughout the Roman army for his exceptional bravery, invincibility, and...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 1 The Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenary Physicians, Cosmas and Damian, along with their mother, Saint Theodota, were natives of Asia Minor, living in the sixth century. Their pagan father died while they were very...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 6 Saint Stylianos was born in Paphlagonia, Asia Minor, sometime between the fourth and sixth centuries, inheriting a substantial fortune from his parents. However, the future saint had little interest in worldly wealth...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 10 Saint Isidora, known as a Fool-for-Christ, endured a life of extreme humility and self-denial within the Tabenna monastery in sixth-century Egypt. Embracing the spiritual discipline of "folly," she deliberately acted in a...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 4 Saint Nikephoros, born Nicholas Tzanakakis in a mountainous village of Crete in 1890, endured profound hardship from an early age. His life was marked by the tragic loss of his simple, pious parents, leaving him an...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 2 Saint Seraphim of Sarov was born in Kursk in 1759 and demonstrated a connection to the divine from his childhood. At the age of nine, he suffered from a severe sickness but was miraculously healed after the Mother of...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 3 The holy New Martyr Ephraim was born in Greece in 1384 and was raised by his pious mother after his father passed away. When he was just fourteen, he entered a monastery dedicated to the Annunciation and Saint Paraskevḗ...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...

Feast Day/Commemorated:  September 23rd – Conception of St. JohnJanuary 7th – Synaxis of St. John February 24th – 1st & 2nd Findings of the head of St. JohnMay 25th – 3rd Finding of the head of St. JohnJune 24th...