The whole life of St. John the Forerunner, from his first days, was completely dedicated to the One who came after him. In the days of the massacre of the infants in Bethlehem, he was also wanted by Herod, but his mother Elizabeth fled with him to the desert, where she rested after forty days. […]
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The internationally acclaimed film Man of God, about the wonderworker and Holy Hierarch Nektarios of Aegina, can now be watched for free on YouTube in the U.S. The film was previously made available for purchase or rent on several platforms. Man of God made its international debut at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival in April, where it won the coveted Audience
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“Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. 18 On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. But
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Saint Thomas the Apostle, called the Twin, was from the Galilean city of Paneada. When our Lord Jesus Christ, during His life on earth, walked through cities and villages teaching people and healing every disease, then Thomas, hearing His preaching and seeing His miracles, clung to Him with all his soul. And he followed Him,
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“I won’t believe it until I see it…” – that was the answer of the apostle Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Christ, to the joyful stories of those who saw their crucified and dead Master as resurrected. And after eight days – as the Gospel says – when the disciples were together again,
This is the story of a Serbian princess who sat on the throne of Constantinople for almost six decades and was the mother of the last two Eastern Roman emperors. The last Byzantine empress Yelena Dragash Paleologos, known in monasticism as Ipomoni, was the great-granddaughter of Saint King Stefan of Dechani. Her father, Serbian nobleman
By what epithets does the Orthodox Church not glorify the holy great martyr George? “The greatest of the great martyrs”, “known everywhere for miracles”, “rush to the rescue”, etc. These sublime names testify to the countless miracles that have happened and are happening throughout Christendom thanks to the intercession of St. George. Below we offer
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Someone will ask: how do you say that the risen Lord overcame death, but people are still dying? Whoever enters this life through the mother’s womb, they come out of this life through death and the grave. Only that death for us, who die in Christ, is no longer a dark abyss, but a birth
Saint Damascene Studit writes that righteous Lazarus never told what he saw in hell. Seeing the torments of hell, he constantly felt bitterness in his mouth and could not eat anything without first sweetening it. Also, he never laughed. Only once, when he saw how one person stole an earthen court, he grinned and said:
What happened to the Four-Day dead Saint Lazarus after his resurrection? Read More »
The Orthodox Church has many holidays as part of the Mother of God. First of all, twelve Great Holidays, and then many holidays in honor of miraculous icons. There are many holidays, but two of the twelve Great Feasts stand out with their meaning and solemnity: one is the bright spring holiday of the Annunciation
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