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Feast Day/Commemorated: November 9 Early Life and Miraculous Beginnings Saint Nektarios, born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846, was destined to become a great wonderworker. From a humble background, he sought work in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 9 Early Life and Miraculous Beginnings Saint Nektarios, born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846, was destined to become a great wonderworker. From a humble background, he sought work in...

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: March 17 Early Life, Captivity, and Divine Calling Saint Patrick, the Enlightener of Ireland, was born around 385 AD, the son of Calpurnius, a Roman tax collector, in Bannavem Taberniae, likely in Wales. At sixteen, he was...

Feast Day/Commemorated: August 24 Early Life and Familial Challenges Saint Nicholas Planas was born in 1851 on the Greek island of Naxos to pious, well-to-do Orthodox Christian parents who even had a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra on their...

Feast Day/Commemorated: November 9 Early Life and Miraculous Beginnings Saint Nektarios, born Anastasius Kephalas in Selebria, Thrace on October 1, 1846, was destined to become a great wonderworker. From a humble background, he sought work in...

Feast Day/Commemorated: June 11 The Church's Mission and the Peking Orthodox Presence On the great and saving day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles, empowering these unlearned fishermen to proclaim the Gospel of Christ with...

Feast Day/Commemorated: March 31 The Apostolic Zeal of Saint Innocent Saint Innocent (Veniaminov), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomensk, born in 1797 in Anginsk, was a tireless Apostle to America and Siberia, glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church 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: 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: February 15 Saint Anthimos (born Argyrios K. Bagianos) was born in Chios in 1869 to devout parents who instilled in him a Christian upbringing. Even as a child, he was recognized for his spiritual potential, with Saint Nektarios...