St. Seraphim of Uglich St. Seraphim of Uglich was born Semyon Nikolayevich Samoilovich in the Poltava Province of what is now western Ukraine, in the …
Church History
American Saints: St. Anatole (Kamensky) of Irkutsk
New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk St. Anatole was born Alexei Vasilevich Kamensky in Russia in 1863. After seminary training …
American Saints: St. Mardarije (Uskokovic)
St. Mardarije of Libertyville The first Serbian Bishop of American and Canada helped build St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois, with his own …
American Saints: St. Vasily Martysz
New Martyr Archpriest Vasily Martysz St. Vasily Martysz lived in North America from 1900 to 1912, serving in locations from the wilds of Alaska to …
American Saints: St. Alexis Toth
St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre St. Alexis Toth, part of the wave of Eastern European immigrants to America in the late 1800s, arrived as an Eastern-rite …
American Saints: St. Alexander Hotovitzky
Missionary to America and Hieromartyr under the Bosheviks Alexander Hotovitzky was a gifted administrator mentored by St. Tikhon, Patriarch of …
Debunking The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is a murder mystery shrouded in a conspiracy theory, a novelistic thriller, an airplane book, the kind of book you read when you …
The Transfiguration of Christ and the Deification of Mankind
Read: Mt. 16:13-20 (Peter’s confession: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”) Mt. 16:21-23 (First prediction of the passion: The Son …
