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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...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 10 The Kollyvades Fathers The Kollyvades Fathers, a movement emerging on the Holy Mountain Athos in the 18th century, represented a vital resurgence of traditional Orthodox spirituality. This group, including figures like...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 9 Early Life and Miraculous Beginnings Saint Nektarios, born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846, was destined to become a great wonderworker. From a humble background, he sought work in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 9 Early Life and Miraculous Beginnings Saint Nektarios, born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846, was destined to become a great wonderworker. From a humble background, he sought work in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 22 In the 14th century, on the island of Chios, lived Saint Markella, daughter of the town's mayor. Raised in devout Christian faith by her parents, she endured the early loss of her mother, a tragedy that plunged her father...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 19 Early Monastic Calling and Journeys to the Holy Land Saint Savvas, born Vasilios in 1862 in Herakleitsa, Eastern Thrace, was the only child of devout but impoverished parents. From a very young age, he felt a strong...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 24 Early Life and Familial Challenges Saint Nicholas Planas was born in 1851 on the Greek island of Naxos to pious, well-to-do Orthodox Christian parents who even had a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra on their...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 28 In 4th-century Egypt, a powerful Ethiopian man known as Moses lived a life of violent crime as the leader of a notorious band of robbers. His physical strength and ruthless reputation made him a figure of terror until,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 12 Prophetic Birth and Childhood Piety Venerable Father Paisios of the Holy Mountain was born Anastasius Enzepíde in Pharasa, Cappadocia, on July 25, 1924, to devout parents. His baptism by Saint Arsenios of...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 9 Early Life and Miraculous Beginnings Saint Nektarios, born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846, was destined to become a great wonderworker. From a humble background, he sought work in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 14 The Call to Mission and Early Life of Saint Kosmas Aitolos Saint Kosmas Aitolos, the holy, glorious, and right-victorious New Hieromartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles, was born in 1714 in Mega Dendron, Aitolia, Greece...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 16 The Early Life and Calling of Saint Joseph the Hesychast  Francis Kottis, born in Paros on February 12, 1897, was the fourth of seven children to a poor but devout couple. Due to his family's extreme poverty,...