During the reign of Emperor Maximian (286-305), the governor Agrippa was sent to the East against the Christians, to replace the governor Asklipiodotos, and having arrived in Comana of Cappadocia, he interrogated and punished the Christians. At that time Saint Basiliskos was there, who was from a village of the Black Sea in Amasea[…]

  May 13, 2025, Saint Glyceria suffered as a martyr for her faith in Christ in the second century, during a persecution against Christians under the emperor Antoninus (138-161). She came from an illustrious family, and her father Macarius was a high-ranking Roman official. Later, the family moved to the Thracian city of Trajanopolis. Saint[…]

  May 8, 2025, the holy Great Martyr Irene was born in the city of Magedon in Persia during the fourth century. She was the daughter of the pagan king Licinius, and her parents named her Penelope. Penelope was very beautiful, and her father kept her isolated in a high tower from the time she[…]

  C.S. Lewis was a popular English writer who lived in the twentieth century. He came to Christ after atheism and his books became among the most widely read from the middle of the last century until now. He once wrote an imaginative, meaningful story called The Great Divorce. It goes like this: God sent[…]

May 7, 2025, on this day in the year 351, not long after Saint Cyril of Jerusalem had succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem, during the reign of Constantius, the son of Saint Constantine the Great, on the day of Pentecost, the multi-attested sign of the Cross appeared over Jerusalem. Saint Cyril, in his letter[…]

  May 1, 2025, God is unknowable, but He makes Himself known. Man, with his limited human abilities, cannot know God. He senses His existence, senses some of His attributes, and measures them from the created world, but he never comprehends Him, nor does he know Him with a true, existential knowledge, except through divine[…]