Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg Saint Xenia lived during the eighteenth century, but little is known of her life or of her family. She passed most of her life in Petersburg during the reigns of the...

THE HOLY MARTYR TRYPHON Tryphon was born of poor parents in the village of Lampsacus in Phrygia. In his childhood he tended geese. From his childhood he also had great grace from God, such that he...

HOLY PRIEST-MARTYR CHARALAMBOS This great saint, Charalampus, was a bishop in Magnesia who suffered for Christ in his 113th year. When a terrible persecution began during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, the elderly Charalampus did...

THE VENERABLE SIMEON THE MYRRH-GUSHER – STEFAN NEMANJA Stefan Nemanja , the great ruler  of the Serbian people, the consolidator of the Serbian lands, creator of the independent Serbian state, defender of Orthodoxy and eradicator of heresy,...