Positions/Titles

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,...

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 7 Saint Parthenios originated from Melitopolis, Asia Minor, where his father served as a deacon. Though he lacked a formal education in reading, the young Parthenios possessed a profound knowledge of the Holy Scriptures...

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: 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: 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: 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:  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...

Feast Day/Commemorated: June 15 Saint Jerome, born Eusebius Hieronymos Sophronius in Stridon, was a pivotal figure in Christian history. He received a thorough secular education in Rome, where he initially succumbed to worldly temptations before...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 28 In 715, Stephen the New was born into a pious Christian family in Constantinople. His parents, having only daughters, had prayed for a son and, in gratitude, dedicated him to God at the Church of the Theotokos. During...

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...