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December 5th – Feast of St. Sabbas the Sanctified and St. Cosmas the First who was Martyred by the Latin-minded

The Passion of the Holy Martyr Cecilia and the Holy Martyrs Who Suffered With Her, Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus

The Twenty-Second Day of the Month of November The Passion of the Holy Martyr Cecilia and the Holy Martyrs Who Suffered With Her, Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus From The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints, Volume 3: November,…
Βίος τής Αγίας ενδόξου Παρθένου και Μάρτυρος τού Χριστού Καικιλίας τής Ρωμαίας.

Ἐπιμέλεια Μοναχοῦ Συμεὠν Η Αγία Καικιλία η προστάτις της (Εκκλησιαστικής) μουσικής τέχνης εγεννήθη στην Ρώμη κατά τις αρχές του τρίτου αιώνος από γονείς ευγενείς (ανήκαν στην ευγενή τάξη των «Καικιλίων») και πλουσίους πλήν όμως ειδωλολάτρες. Από νεαράς ηλικίας εβαπτίσθηκε Χριστιανή…
On the Day of the Falling Asleep of St. Philaret Metropolitan of New York

Troparion Tone IV From childhood thou gavest thyself wholly to the Lord, abiding in prayer, labors and fasting, O God-bearing Philaret, and becamest a model of shining virtue for thy flock; therefore, beholding thy pious disposition, God appointed thee a…
SERMON ON THE SYNAXIS OF ARCHANGEL MICHAEL -ST JOHN OF KRONSTADT

The angels’ mission in people’s lives In the matter of God’s providence towards mankind, there must be intermediaries between people and God from the spiritual world, (since mankind occupies a middle ground between the spiritual and the physical worlds), who…
St. Tikhon on the Front 1916

The Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus

These holy and wonderful martyrs and heroes of the Christian Faith were at first noblemen at the court of Emperor Maximian. The emperor himself esteemed them greatly because of their courage, wisdom and fidelity. But when the emperor heard that…
Saint Peter the Aleut

Saint Peter the Aleut is mentioned in the Life of Saint Herman of Alaska (December 13). Simeon Yanovsky (who ended his life as the schemamonk Sergius in the Saint Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery), has left the following account: “On another…
The 26 Martyrs of Zographou Monastery, Mt. Athos, martyred by the Latins (1284)

Commemorated on September 22 and October 10 They suffered from Emperor Michael Palaeologus and Patriarch John Beccus for the charge of Latinism by the latter. All of them were burned in a tower. Of them the following are known by…