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 up at Nazianzus and possessed of the same zeal for the Faith as her parents, she always regarded the heavenly Jerusalem as her true homeland, […]
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 most Christian king. In 1008, the king, his family, and his personal bodyguard all received Holy Baptism. Ingegerd received an exceptional education for a woman […]
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 given a great honor to plant a holy seed in their family that was “like a tree, planted in water, that brings its fruit on […]
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 happy with traditional renderings of the old carols, but instead, my ears are assaulted with the latest auditory atrocity, celebrating Christmas as a time of […]
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 formed. It is faith, established in the souls of men, which ought to be spread to the many and be maintained in their consciousness. There […]
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 she was a rare combination of exalted Christian spirit, moral nobility, enlightened mind, gentle heart, and refined taste. She possessed an extremely delicate and multifaceted […]
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 of the first things we learn is that the saints are neither distinctively Rus Man or Greek (nor any other nationality); they are at all […]