Palestine

Feast Day/Commemorated: December 18 Saint Modestos was born into a Christian family in Sebasteia, Cappadocia, in Asia Minor. Drawn to a life of asceticism, he became a monk on Mount Sinai and later rose to become the abbot of the Monastery of Saint...

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,...

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: May 8 ***This Icon Depicts Saint John and Prochorus in the Cave of Patmos The final earthly moments of Saint John the Theologian, as recounted by tradition, are shrouded in an aura of profound reverence and mystery. At over a...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 8 The final earthly moments of Saint John the Theologian, as recounted by tradition, are shrouded in an aura of profound reverence and mystery. At over a hundred years old, he led seven of his disciples outside Ephesus to a...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 6 Early Life and Ascent to the Patriarchate Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, born in the ninth century, emerged from a family profoundly dedicated to Christianity; his father, Sergius, died a martyr in defense...

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: June 29 A Homily of Saint Gregory Palamas for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul1. The commemoration of each of the saints on the appointed feast day is an occasion for town and country, citizens and their rulers to share in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: March 20 The Samaritan Woman's Unwavering Faith and Family The Holy Martyr Photini, famously known as the Samaritan Woman from her encounter with Christ at Jacob’s Well (John 4:5-42), fearlessly preached the Gospel in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: October 11 Early Life and Ordination as Deacon Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the seven deacons, is distinct from Philip, one of the Twelve Apostles. Born in Palestine, this Philip was married and had children...