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THE HOLY MARTYR STEFAN OF DEČANI, KING OF SERBIA Stefan was the son of King Milutin and father of Tsar Dušan.  By the command of his ill-informed father, Stefan was blinded, and at the command of his capricious son (Dušan), was strangled in his old age. When he was blinded, St. Nicholas appeared to him in […]

SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE John was born in Antioch in the year 354 A.D. His father, Secundus, was an imperial commander and his mother’s name was Anthusa. Studying Greek philosophy, John became disgusted with Hellenic paganism and adopted the Christian Faith as the one and all-embracing truth. Meletius, Patriarch of Antioch, baptized John, […]

Saint Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) was born in 1906 with the name Evangelos in Evoia, Greece, in the small village of Agios Ioannis (Saint John). As a child he tended to the sheep in the hills, and it is there that he first read the life of Saint John the Hut-Dweller (Commemorated January 15th) which planted the desire […]

THE ENTRY INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE MOST-HOLY THEOTOKOS When the Most-holy Virgin Mary reached the age of three, her holy parents Joachim and Anna took her from Nazareth to Jerusalem to dedicate her to the service of God according to their earlier promise. It was a three-day journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem but, traveling […]