Saint Nicholas Cabasilas: The Layman Who Theologized on Life in Christ
Saint Nicholas Cabasilas, the lay theologian of life in Christ: his witness on Baptism, Chrismation, the Eucharist, the Divine Liturgy, and holiness for every Christian.
Category Living Saints
Articles on saints, holy families, and living Orthodox witness in the Church and the world.
Saint Venerable Theodora of Sihla: The Hermitess of the Cave
The life of Saint Venerable Theodora of Sihla, the hermitess of the cave: her hesychast solitude, the tradition, the sources, the chronology, and the relics.
Saint Apostle Jude, the Kinsman of the Lord (June 19)
The life of Saint Apostle Jude Thaddaeus, the kinsman of the Lord: his names, catholic epistle, preaching, martyrdom, and the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
Saint Paisios the Great: The Desert as a School of Discernment
Saint Paisios the Great shows that Orthodox discernment is not born of intelligence, but of purity, obedience, ascetic labor, and right faith.
Saint Neophytos the Cretan, Hieromartyr and Metropolitan of Wallachia
Saint Neophytos the Cretan strengthened the hesychast renewal of Poiana Mărului, supported Orthodox books and worship in the people's language, and laid down his life for his flock.
Saint Lazar the Great Martyr, Prince of Serbia: A Life Sealed by Sacrifice
Saint Lazar the Great Martyr, Prince of Serbia, is not venerated merely as the hero of Kosovo, but as a martyr whose sacrifice sealed a life of church-building, communion, and faith.
Saint Justin Popović: Confession Within the Church
Saint Justin Popović, one of Orthodoxy's harshest critics of ecumenism, was no schismatic: his life, the pan-heresy, the three falls.
Saint Onuphrius the Great: The Child Fed by Christ
On June 12, the Church commemorates Saint Onuphrius the Great — a hermit who spent sixty years in the innermost desert of Egypt, seen by no one, fed by a date palm and communed by an angel. All we know of him comes to us through a single witness.
Saint Nicander of Pskov: The Hermit of the Marshes and the Trial of His Glorification
The life, hesychast struggle, and veneration of Saint Nicander of Pskov (1507-1581), the northern hermit of the marshes of Porkhov.
Saint Luke of Crimea: An Unretouched Portrait of an Inconvenient Confessor
Beyond the gentle healer of popular piety: the severity, the exiles, the Stalin Prize and the real sanctity of Saint Luke of Crimea, feast day June 11.