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Tradition suggests that when St Ignatius was a little boy, the Savior hugged him and said: “Unless you turn and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven”. The saint was called “God-Bearer” (Theophoros), because he bore God in his heart and prayed unceasingly to Him.
St. John Chrysostom
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Eulogy. On the holy martyr Saint Ignatius, the god-bearer, archbishop of Antioch the great, who was carried off to Rome, and there suffered martyrdom, and thence was conveyed back again to Antioch.
Dmitry Lapa
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 4
St. Gildas is regarded as one of the principal apostles of the Orthodox faith and early preachers of Wales, though very scarce details of his activities in the region survive.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
In the world today, especially in American Christianity, there are divisive debates opposing biblical literalists with those who do not think every scriptural verse was or is meant to be read only literally. Similar debates occurred from the beginnings of Christianity.
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St. Isaac the Syrian, commemorated on January 28/February10, is one of the most beloved saints especially among monastics in the Orthodox Church. The sayings and teachings found in his Ascetical Homilies show him to have been a man full of the Spirit, divinely illumined by the grace of God in the Church, which he attracted to himself through watchful repentance. His words have served as a continuing, patient inspiration for generations of monks and nuns, and laypeople, down to our very day.