Saint Gorgonia, the elder sister of Saint Gregory the Theologian (25 Jan.), was the daughter of Saint Gregory Nazianzen the Elder (1 Jan.) and of Saint Nonna (5 Aug.). Growing […]
Category: Life of Saint
Right-Believing Princess Anna of Novgorod
St. Anna of Novgorod (whose name was Ingegerd until baptism) was the oldest daughter of the Swedish King St. Olaf Skötkonung, who reigned from 994-1022, and was known as a […]
Life of St. Nicholas – The Wonderworker
The Holy Hierarch Nicholas the Wonderworker was born in the city of Patara in Lycia. His parents, Theophanes and Nona, were pious, noble and wealthy people. This blessed couple was […]
The Real St. Nicholas
One of the things I hate about going shopping during the season of the Christmas rush is the music that is piped in over the mall sound system. I would […]
St. Nektarios on the Christian Life
Christian religion is not a certain philosophic system, about which learned men, trained in metaphysical studies, argue and then either espouse or reject, according to the opinion each one has […]
Life of the Holy New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth
by Metropolitan Anastassy Not every generation is destined to meet along its path such a blessed gift from heaven as was the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna for her time, for […]
Athlete of Virtues – St. Sergius of Radonezh
The lives of the saints as well as their writings are one of the ways that we learn about the spiritual life. In reading attentively the lives of saints, one […]