Venerable Finnian, Abbot of Clonard

Commemorated December 12/25

Dmitry Lapa

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Venerable Finnian, Abbot of Clonard

Commemorated December 12/25

Dmitry Lapa

The disciples of Clonard established hundreds of churches and monasteries in Ireland as well as in other countries. According to a custom which existed in Clonard, every monk who left the monastery as a missionary took with him a copy of the Gospels, a crozier and some holy object and later, when building his own church or monastery, placed these relics inside it.

Christmas in Verse

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Christmas in Verse

The Son of God, the eternal King, that did us all salvation bring, and freed the soul from danger; He whom the whole world could not take, the Word, which heaven and earth did make, was now laid in a manger.

Holy Hierarch St. Spyridon of Tremithus

Commemorated December 12/25

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Holy Hierarch St. Spyridon of Tremithus

Commemorated December 12/25

"When instead of logical proofs, from the lips of this Elder there came some special power, my proofs became powerless against it, for man cannot stand up against God. If any of you is able to think as I do, let him believe on Christ and together with me follow after this Elder, through whose lips God Himself spoke.”

Syria: The end of chrisian civilization?

Milena Faustova

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Suffering Church

Rating: 10|Votes: 3

Syria: The end of chrisian civilization?

Milena Faustova

“It is the accepted belief that religious wars have become a thing of the past. But they have become a thing of the past only for those Western politicians who pay no attention to them. Religious wars are going on both in Africa and the Near East. Syria is only one of the bridgeheads for the swift de-Christianization of this region..."

A Miracle of the Lord: A True Story of Faith

Simona Georgieva

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 10|Votes: 7

A Miracle of the Lord: A True Story of Faith

Simona Georgieva

Erkhan was a Moslem, but the more time he spent with the Christian Stoyan, the more he saw the priest’s striving to do good, the more he wanted to change his religious views. Spending time with Fr. Stoyan and other priests, Erkhan saw them serving molebens, and he began to secretly go to the church and pray for Tanya and himself.