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Saint John The Theologian, Apostle and Evangelist

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich   John was a son of Zebedee, a fisherman, and Salome, the daughter of Joseph, the Betrothed of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God. When the Lord Jesus called him, John immediately left his father and their nets and, together with his brother, James, followed Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksMay 8, 2023 ago
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Saint Theofanis, Metropolitan of Peritheorio (14th Century)

Saint Theofanis served as the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi, and was associated with Saint Maximos Kavsokalyvitis (†1365), whose biographer he was. Saint Nikodimos the Athonite translated this admirable and much-admired biography into a simpler form of Greek. In it, Saint Theofanis says: ‘As God is my witness, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 weeksMay 3, 2023 ago
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Christ’s Trophy-Bearer, the Great Martyr Saint George

Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian   A prominent officer in the Roman army, Saint George enjoyed the favor of the Emperor Diocletian because of his bravery and abilities. Publicly, and in front of the emperor himself, he opposed the latter’s decision to launch a persecution against Christians, boldly confessing that he Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 monthApril 24, 2023 ago
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Saint Theonas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki

Lambros Skontzos, Theologian   Thessaloniki has been the cradle of many saints. There are hundreds of Thessalonian saints who adorn the holy synaxaria. One such saint is Theonas, archbishop of the city, a truly significant personality who made his mark in the Thessaloniki of the 16th century. We don’t have much Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsApril 4, 2023 ago
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Filotheï, Patron Saint of Athens [2]

Fotis Kondoglou   On the eve of the feast of Saint Dionysios in 1589, she was in the monastery she had founded in Patisia. In the evening, the sisters gathered for the vigil. Some Muslims, who had long been at odds with her, jumped over the wall of the monastery Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsFebruary 18, 2023 ago
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Filotheï, Patron Saint of Athens (February 19) [1]

Fotis Kondoglou   Saint Filotheï was born in Athens to illustrious parents, the only child of Angelos Benizelos and his wife Syriga. She was called Filotheï when she became a nun, but before then her name was Revoula. Her mother had been barren and had begged God to give her Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 monthsFebruary 17, 2023 ago
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Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra

Saint Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople towards the middle of the ninth century, wrote a life of Saint Nicholas in which he declares that “up to the present the life of the distinguished shepherd has been unknown to the majority of the faithful.” Nearly five hundred years had passed since the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 monthsDecember 6, 2022 ago
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Saint Porphyrios Kavsokalyvitis (Part III)

George Arvanitis   d) Immortality The victory over death, the sense and assurance of immortality is an experience that is common to all the saints and Elder Porphyrios himself. In the recorded interview mentioned above he also says: ‘The man who belongs to Christ should love Christ, and when he Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 monthsDecember 3, 2022 ago
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Saint Porphyrios Kavskokalyvitis (Part II)

George Arvanitis   His most essential characteristics In our opinion, the most essential characteristics of Elder Porphyrios’s personality were as follows: first of all, the fact that his membership of the Church was of a substantial and not a nominal kind; secondly, his boundless love for Christ and through Him Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 monthsDecember 2, 2022 ago
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Saint Porphyrios Kavskokalyvitis (Part I)

George Arvanitis   ‘Now you must be thinking, from what I’ve told you, that – well, I don’t know – I’m quite something. Well, I’m nothing, although I do try and am just beginning, it seems, to get a taste of the things that I talk about. I try to, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 monthsDecember 1, 2022 ago

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