There are almost no saints whose miraculous deeds of love are talked about as much as Saint Nectarios the Wonderworker of Aegina. The feast of his remembrance is always a good opportunity to remember some of the countless miraculous healings. We cite probably the most famous example of his miracles – the healing of also […]
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Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovich:I first met the great elder Paisius of Mount Athos in 1966, when I was still a layman. And I spent a certain period, almost ten months, already as a hieromonk, near his cell.The very first time I went there, I stayed for a week. I was going through a very difficult period
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Forgotten priceless gifts that the Nemanjićs (Serbian Dynasty) gave to the Italian basilica. King Milutin built a chapel around the saint’s tomb, cast from a mixture of silver and gold. Even after the collapse of the medieval state, Serbs still donated the temple The Catholic Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari, which preserves the saint’s
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Nicholas was the only son of famous and rich parents Teofan and Nona. He was born in the Asia Minor region of Lycia, in the city of Patara around 270. Immediately after his birth in St. Nicholas, as the legend testifies, the future miracle worker could be recognized because during the baptism he could stand
The Elder Porphyrios once asked a pilgrim visiting him:— Do you know the troparion that begins, “We celebrate the slaying of death …”? — Yes, elder, I know it. — Then say it. —“We celebrate the slaying of death, the destroying of hell, the beginning of another way of life that is eternal. And leaping
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“Do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves…” (The service is Matins of Saturday morning sung by anticipation, on Friday evening.) It consists of psalms, hymns, and readings dealing with the death of Christ, in contrast to His divinity, and in expectation of His Resurrection. One of the hymns relates: “He who holds all things is
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In the destroyed church decicated to Michael-Archangel in the village of Urusovo, the Venetian district of the Tula region, the ancient icon from the 18th century of the Holy Mother of God “Sign” started Myrrh-streaming. The Myrrh-streaming icon was spotted on February 8th and has since been myrrh-streaming once every few days. Myrrh-streaming of the
St. Theodore Tyrone the Recruit (died February 17, 306) is a Christian saint and martyr. This saint is the first patron saint of the city of Venice He enlisted in the Marmaritsky regiment as a recruiter in the city of Amasya (present-day Turkey) when the persecution of Christians under Emperors Maximian and Maximine began. In
Hymn to Love – Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 13) If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
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As we already know, in the western calendar of saints, February 14 is traditionally the feast of St. Valentine of Rome. The eastern calendar, which is followed by most of the Orthodox Church, celebrates St. Valentine of Rome on July 6. According to the hagiographic tradition, St. Valentine was a priest, renowned for his mercy
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