Orthodox Calendar December 4 Holy Great Martyr Barbara She lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, the pagan Dioscorus, was a rich and illustrious man in the Egyptian city…
Orthodox Calendar December 3 Saint George of Cernica He was born in 1730, and became a monk on Mount Athos when he was a young man. He was a disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (November…
Orthodox Calendar, December 2 Saints Cleopas and Paisius of Sihăstria Venerable and God-bearing Father Paisie of Sihăstria was born on 20 June 1897 in the village of Stroești, Botoșani County, into the Christian family of…
Orthodox Calendar December 1 Saint Anastasia, the Mother of Saint Andrew Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania Blessed Anastasia was born in 1785 to faithful parents, Aromanian merchants from Macedonia who had settled in Miskolc, Hungary. Raised…
Orthodox Calendar November 30 †) Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, Protector of Romania He was the first of the Apostles to follow Christ, and he later brought his own brother, the holy Apostle Peter, to…
Orthodox Calendar November 29 Martyr Paramon in Bithynia Holy Martyr Paramon and the 370 Martyrs with him suffered for their faith in Christ in the year 250 during the rule of the emperor Decius (249-251).…
Orthodox Calendar November 28 Confessor Saint Arsenius of Prislop Venerable Father Arsenius was born on September 29, 1910, in the village of Vața de Sus in Hunedoara County, receiving at baptism the name Zian-Vălean. In…
Orthodox Calendar, November 27 Greatmartyr James the Persian The Holy Great Martyr James the Persian (the Sawn-Asunder) was born in the fourth century into a pious Christian family, both wealthy and illustrious. His wife was…
Orthodox Calendar, November 26 Saint Alypius the Stylite He was born in the city of Adrianopolis in Paphlagonia. His mother, a Christian, was widowed early, and she sent her son to be educated by Bishop…
Orthodox Calendar, November 25 Holy Great Martyr Catherine She was the daughter of Constus, the governor of Alexandrian Egypt during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-313). Living in the capital, the center of Hellenistic…