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Feast Day/Commemorated: April 23/November 3 This beautiful and finely detailed icon is the work of our own Kyriakos Kosova. Kyriakos Kosova is a master iconographer who spent much of his life in Albania, Greece and Italy. He is now in the US to...

Feast Day/Commemorated: April 23/November 3 Early Life and Military Service of Saint George Saint George was born into a Christian family in the late 3rd century. His father, a Cappadocian army officer, and his mother, a native of Lydda, Palestine,...

This icon features Saint Joseph the Hesychast along with his spiritual children, Saint Ephraim of Katounakia and Blessed Geronda Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona.2 of these Saints have been glorified. Saint Joseph (Feast Day August 16) and Saint Ephraim...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 21 Born around 580 in Constantinople, Saint Maximus the Confessor was a highly educated and devout man who rose to prominence as first secretary to Emperor Heraclius. He was a master of philosophy and theology and was...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 9 Saint Christopher lived during the 3rd century and was martyred around the year 250 under the reign of Emperor Decius. He was a man of immense stature and strength, originally named Reprebus. According to tradition, he was...

This beautiful and finely detailed icon is the work of our own Kyriakos Kosova. Kyriakos Kosova is a master iconographer who spent much of his life in Albania, Greece and Italy. He is now in the US to continue his work in Orthodox Churches to the glory...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 10 Saint Blane (c. 530–590) was a monk from the Isle of Bute who established a monastery in what is now Dunblane, Scotland. The son of a Pictish king, he was educated in Ireland and was a nephew of Saint Catan, who...

Feast Day/Commemorated: December 2 The Life of Saint Paisius Olaru of Sihăstria and Shila Monastery (Romania)Saint Paisius (1897-1990), born Peter Olaru, was a revered Romanian schemamonk and confessor whose profound spiritual influence extended to the...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 27 Early Life and Miracles   Saint Withburga, the youngest daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, was born into a holy lineage. After her father's martyrdom, Withburga was raised by her nurse in Holkham, Norfolk. Early...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 22 Saint Mary Magdalen's Early Life and Conversion Saint Mary Magdalen, whose name is etched into the Gospel accounts, hailed from the small Galilean city of Magdala. While her early life isn't detailed in the Gospels,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 27 Saint Gerasimus, originally from Lycia in Asia Minor, was a devout man from his youth who embraced monasticism, first in the Egyptian desert of Thebaid. Around 450 AD, he moved to Palestine and established a monastery...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 27 Saint Panteleimon, originally named Pantoleon, was born in Nicomedia to a pagan father and a Christian mother. Though his mother, Saint Euboula, tried to raise him in the Christian faith, her early death led him to a...