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 Neagoe Basarab, persecuted under three princes, chosen by the people, founder of Curtea de Argeș and Athos benefactor, author of the Teachings.
Saint Justin Popović, one of Orthodoxy's harshest critics of ecumenism, was no schismatic: his life, the pan-heresy, the three falls.
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.
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev, author of the letters «Repentance Is Left to Us», is one of the great Russian spiritual fathers of the twentieth century, a teacher of repentance and humility.
The life, hesychast struggle, and veneration of Saint Nicander of Pskov (1507-1581), the northern hermit of the marshes of Porkhov.
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.
Part 3 of the Revelation series: the centre of the book is not the beast, but the Lamb and the heavenly Liturgy, where judgment and hope are revealed together.
The Psalter is the Church’s school of prayer: the book through which Christians learn to pray with the psalms, attentiveness, order, and heart.
Saint Cyril of Alexandria defended the name Mother of God at Ephesus and showed the boundary between Orthodox faith and heresy.