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St. Amphilochius (d. AD395)
St. Amphilochius was a theologian, a stalwart defender of orthdoxy against the Arians, and according to tradition, encouraged St. Basil to write his defence of the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Amphilochius, like many saintly bishops is also known for successfully standing up to “power” risking his life before the Emperor Theodosius to make a [...]
St. Marutha the Persian
Saint Marutha was Bishop of Tagrith (Martyropolis), a city which he founded between the Byzantine Empire and Persia. He was famed for his knowledge and his piety, he wrote about the martyrs, and he suffered for his faith in Christ under the Persian emperor Sapor. He also left behind other works in the Syrian language, [...]
3.5 in 4
OK, so this morning I was struck by something as I quickly scanned the recent weeks of the Calendar project. Roughly – throughout the past four months – that is one quarter of the year – there have been on average only 3.5 commemorations per month of female saints! Obviously this is not “scientific” – [...]
Eumenios Bishop of Gortyna
Eumenios was a pious bishop who started out in Crete, and travelled to Rome, then to Thebes in Egypt. He died at a very old age, and his relics were returned to Greece. So not wanting to discount the value of St. Eumenios – but for the purposes of our project – his commemoration will [...]
Hagiographical Hiccups
The thing about recalling the stories of the various saints is . . . . that the stories themselves are sometimes so inconsistent! For example – today is the feast of St. Moses the Ethiopian (a.k.a – Moses the Black, Moses the Abysinian, and Moses the Robber) his story is one of my favourites and [...]
Let’s Fix Pascha! (literally)
The Irish politician Feargal Quinn has written in the Irish Times (27 March) that the EU must set a fixed date for Pascha. His argument runs that the movable date is inconvenient to parents and schools organising vacations, and time off. That it negatively affects the tourist industry, and causes inefficiency in other businesses attempting [...]