St Zeno possessed a large fortune, but he distributed his substance to the poor and manumitted slaves.
The Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata, stood firmly for the Orthodox Confession of Faith proclaimed at the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea in the year 325.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
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St. Paul notes that “faith works through love”. This describes the very heart of the ascetic life.
Alexei Lysenko, Oleg Starodubtsev
In Orthodox circles, some want to venerate wonderworking icons without fail, to visit “the holiest places”, to bring earth from the grave of one or another saint, to dry up and keep prosphora given them by a priest at home and so on. Do these practices bring us closer to paganism or are they indicative of our reverence for divine things?
Saint Anastasia was the mother of St Sava of Serbia.
