Ascetic

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:  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: 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: January 20 The Prophesied Birth and Early Devotion of Saint Euthymius Saint Euthymius the Great was born in 377 A.D., in Melitine, Armenia, to his pious parents, Paul and Dionysia. His birth was miraculous, as his mother had been...

Feast Day/Commemorated: May 30 Saint Emmelia of Caesarea, born in the late third or early fourth century, lived during a transformative era when Christianity was rapidly expanding and challenging the established Roman pagan order. She was the devoted...

Feast Day/Commemorated: December 11 Saint Daniel was born in Maratha, a village in Upper Mesopotamia, near Samosata. He embraced the monastic life at the tender age of 12, residing in a monastery until he was thirty-eight. During a journey to Antioch...

Feast Day/Commemorated: January 17 Saint Anthony the Great, born in Egypt in 251, is revered as the Father of monasticism. At twenty, orphaned and responsible for his sister, he heard the Gospel call to sell possessions and give to the poor, which he...