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Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading Mt. Athos. In the 13th century…
Hieromartyr Ermogen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, was glorified into the rank of the saints on 12 May 1913. During the course of three centuries from generation to generation the memory of Patriarch Ermogen as a sainted bishop-martyr was passed…
Commemorated May 11 The Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles First-Teachers and Enlighteners of the Slavic Peoples, the Brothers Cyril and Methodius came from an illustrious and pious family living in the Greek city of Thessalonika. Saint Methodius was the oldest of seven brothers,…
Commemorated on May 11 Hieromartyr Joseph, First Metropolitan of Astrakhan, was born at Astrakhan in 1579. Having taken monastic vows, Saint Joseph at 52 years of age was raised to the dignity of archimandrite of the Astrakhan Trinity monastery. In…
Commemorated on 4th Sunday of Pascha by the Epistle Reading The Righteous Saint Tabitha (I), a virtuous and kindly woman, belonged to the Christian community in Joppa. Being grievously ill, she happened to be dying. At the time not far…
by Dr. Vladimir Moss
May 7, 2021 Third Week of Pascha. Tone two. Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303).Repose of Venerable Nilus, abbot of Sora (1508).Venerable John of…
Saint Eadberht, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, England, from 688 until his death on 6 May 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in…
Commemorated on May 6, October 28, August 28 Saint Job, Hegumen of Pochaev and Wonderworker (in the world named Ivan Zhelezo), was born in the mid-XV Century in Pokut’a in Galicia. At age 10 he came to the Transfiguration Ugornitsk…
Saint Job the Righteous Commemorated on May 6 Saint Job the Righteous lived about 2000-1500 years before the Birth of Christ, in Northern Arabia, in the country of Austidia in the land of Uz. His life and sufferings are recorded…