Category: Life of the Saints

• The Bishop Who Tamed the Dragon’s River

  The Life of Saint Niketas the Bishop of Chalcedon (8th–9th Century) The soldiers came for him at dawn. Niketas, Bishop… Read more.

• The Girl Who Sang in the Arena

  The Life of Saint Theodora of Alexandria (3rd–4th Century) Today the Church has no formal commemoration list provided, so let… Read more.

• The Physician Who Healed Without a Price

  The Life of Saint Sampson the Hospitable (c. 480–530) Constantinople in the sixth century was a city of gold domes… Read more.

• The Girl Who Spoke Thunder to an Emperor

  The Life of Saint Christina of Tyre (3rd Century) The golden idol weighed as much as a grown man, and… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Gave Everything Away

  The Life of Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD) On a winter morning in the city of Caesarea, in the… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Faced Down a Sorcerer’s Fire

  The Life of St. Leo, Bishop of Catania (ca. 780) The mountain was always watching. Etna rose above the city… Read more.

• The Soldier Who Chose the Desert

  The Life of Venerable Theodore of Sanaxar (1718–1791) On a winter night in 1738, in the middle of a roaring… Read more.

• The Lion Who Stood When Everyone Knelt

  The Life of Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople (died 449) The old man knew they were going to kill him.… Read more.

• The Girl Who Became a Pillar of Fire

  The Life of Saint Etheldreda of Ely (c. 636–679) On a black night in the year 672, a woman ran.… Read more.

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  The Woman Who Built a City of Learning

  The Life of Saint Brigid of Kildare (c. 451–525) The baby was born at sunrise on the threshold of a… Read more.