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Feast Day/Commemorated: December 24 Noble Origins and Spiritual Awakening Born to Philip, a prominent Roman official governing Egypt under Emperor Commodus, Eugenia grew up in Alexandria surrounded by wealth and intellectual privilege. Highly educated...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 18 The life of Saint Elizabeth Feodorovna began in the highest echelons of Russian nobility as the sister of Tsarina Alexandra and wife of Grand Duke Sergius. After converting to Orthodoxy by her own choice, she rejected the...

Feast Day/Commemorated: September 17 In second-century Italy, a pious widow named Sophia raised her three daughters—Faith, Hope, and Love—to be Devout Christians. Named after the primary theological virtues, the girls were only twelve, ten,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: July 20 The Life and Legacy of the Prophet Elias Born into the Levite tribe 900 years before the Incarnation, the Holy Prophet Elias was a man of fiery spirit whose very birth was marked by celestial visions. His father, Sobach,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: March 1 Saint Evdoxia was a wealthy Samaritan woman living a life of pagan indulgence in Heliopolis (modern-day Baalbek, Lebanon) during the reign of Emperor Trajan. Her spiritual awakening occurred one midnight when she...

Feast Day/Commemorated: September 11Every Orthodox Christian should have an icon of Saint Euphrosynos in their kitchen! Now with our "Rustic Icon Cutting Board" it feels like it belongs all the more! This cutting board is made out of genuine wood and has...

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: 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: 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: September 11 Our Holy Father Euphrosynos the Cook was a devout and faithful man from a peasant background, lacking formal education. As an adult, he worked as a cook, demonstrating remarkable self-control and generosity. Despite...