First Homily of St. John Damascene [+749AD] on the Dormition
Source The memory of the just takes place with rejoicing, said Solomon, the wisest of men; for precious in God’s
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Lives of Saints
Hieroconfessor Basil, Bishop of Kineshma and Those with Him [+July 31 OS / August 13 NS 1937]
[Source] Bishop Basil of Kineshma was born Benjamin Sergeyevich Preobrazhensky, in 1875 (according to other sources, 1873 or 1876) in
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On Unbaptized Infants
Hieromonk Enoch From what sources we have from saints, councils, and liturgical books, what can we say, little as it
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New Evidence Surfaces About the “Plague of Cyprian”
Source: LiveScience Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the
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The Vision of St. Laisren (Molaise) and the Battle with the Demons in the Air Over Souls
From the “Vision of St. Laisren (Molaise), Abbot of Old Leighlin”, in Ireland (St. Laisren, +639AD): The Angels and Demons
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Autocephalous Church of Ravenna Resists Early Attempts at Roman Encroachment
[Source] “It happened in that time, that the Roman pope sent a legation to [Maurus] telling him to hasten to
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Feast of St. Alban the Protomartyr of Britain June 22 (OS) / July 5 (NS)
The Venerable Priest, St. Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History, Ch. 7, Book I, gives the Passion of St. Alban:
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The Vision of St. Fursey of Ireland (7th Century) and the Spiritual Combat
June 02, 2015 (Source: “The Saints of Erin” by L. Tachet De Barneva) [For an alternate translation of the Vision, but,
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Life of St. Sava (1169-1236)
January 12/25, 2015 St. Sava, the first Serbian Archbishop, the Illuminator and Wonder-maker, was the son of the great prince
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