THE HOLY ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND ALL THE BODILESS POWERS OF HEAVEN The angels of God were celebrated by men from earliest times but this celebration was often turned into the divinization of angels (II Kings 23:5). The heretics wove all sorts of fables concerning the angels. Some of them looked upon angels as gods; others, although […]
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, […]
