September 2026
Saint Cosmas of AetoliaOur holy Father Cosmas was from the town of Mega Dendron (Great Tree) of Aetolia. At the age of twenty, he went to study at the school of the Monastery of Vatopedi
The Hieromartyr Eutyches, a disciple of the holy Apostles John the Theologian and Paul, lived from the first century into the beginning of the second century, and was from the Palestinian city of Sebastea. Although St
Saint Titus, Apostle of the Seventy was a native of the island of Crete, the son of an illustrious pagan. In his youth he studied Hellenistic philosophy and the ancient poets. Preoccupied by the sciences,
Our holy Church honors today the homozygous Saints Adrian and Natalia, who were from Izmit and lived at the end of 3 rd century AD The moving life of these two Saints is living proof
Saint Pimen the Great was born about the year 340 in Egypt. He went to one of the Egyptian monasteries with his two brothers, Anoub and Paisius, and all three received monastic tonsure. The brothers
Saint Moses, who is also called Moses the Black, was a slave, but because of his evil life, his master cast him out, and he became a ruthless thief, dissolute in all his ways. Later,
The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the
Saint Alexander was sent to the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea as the delegate of Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Constantinople (see June 4), to whose throne he succeeded in the year 325. When Arius had
The Placing of the Venerable Belt of the Most Holy Theotokos in a church of Constantinople’s Chalcoprateia district took place during the reign of the emperor Theodosius the Younger. Before this the holy relic, entrusted
Saint Symeon Stylite Early Life and Youth Saint Symeon was born around the year 392AD in a village called Sis, between Syria and Cilicia. He grew up in a poor, pious home, and started tending
Saint John the Fasting Patriarch of Constantinople Our Holy Father John was born in Constantinople in the 6th century. He worked as a goldsmith, like his father. He loved God since his youth. Hearing of his
Holy Martyr Mamas (3rd) The Martyrdom of His Parents The Holy Great Martyr Mamas was born in Paphlagonia, Asia Minor in the third century. His parents, the Christians Theodotus and Rufina, were fervent and pious,