Saint John was born at the end of the eighth century. At a young age he became a disciple of Saint Gregory of Decapolis and accepted monastic tonsure from him at a monastery in Thessalonica.
Saint Cosmas, Bishop of Chalcedon, and his companion Saint Auxentius, lived during the ninth century, at a time when the Iconoclasts oppressed the Orthodox.
Saint John of the Ancient Caves is so called because he lived during the eighth century in the Lavra of Saint Chariton.
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The Holy Martyr John Kulikos was born in the Greek district of Epirus, in the city of Ioannina. His parents were pious, but he was orphaned at an early age, and he went to Constantinople.
Dr. Jeannie Constantinou
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Dr. Jeannie Constantinous discusses the various doubts that periodically come up about Christ’s burial, about witnessing to Christianity by the example of our lives, and about the consistency of the Gospel histories on the Resurrection.
