Ascetic

Feast Day/Commemorated: February 3 Symeon the God-Receiver was a devout and righteous man of Jerusalem, recognized for his deep faith and his role as one of the seventy scholars commissioned by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. While working in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: Mar 9 The Call to America and Early Monastic Life In 1793, a spiritual mission comprising monks from the Valaam Monastery was dispatched to preach the Gospel to the indigenous peoples of northwestern America, recently brought...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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:  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...