Saints
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Job the Prophet
05-06This faithful servant of God, the most perfect icon of all virtue, and especially of patience, was the son of Zare and Bosorra, andwas the fifth from…
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Saint Irene the Great Martyr
05-05Saint Irene was the daughter of a princelet called Licinius; named Penelope by her parents, through a divine revelation she was brought to faith in…
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Saint Pelagia the Nun-martyr of Tarsus
05-04This Saint was from Tarsus of Cilicia and contested in martyrdom under Diocletian, in 284: she was cast into a bull fashioned of bronze, which had…
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Saints Timothy and Maura The Martyrs
05-03The holy Martyrs Timothy and Maura were husband and wife. Timothy was from Penapeis in the Thebaid, a reader in the Church, and had been married to…
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Removal of the Relics of St. Athanasius the Great
05-02In the half-century after the First Ecumenical Council held in Nicaea in 325, if there was one manwhom the Arians feared and hated more intensely…
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St Elizabeth the Wonderworker
04-24Saint Elizabeth was born in Heraclea of Thrace. She lived in virginity and exhausted herself with ascetical labours and every kind of…
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Symeon the Holy Martyr & Bishop of Persia
04-17This Martyr was Bishop of the royal cities Seleucia and Ctesiphon in Persia. As the number of Christians increased in Persia, building churches and…