Category: Uncurated

• The Bishop Who Sang the World Back to Truth

  The Life of Saint Germanus of Paris (496–576) The boy was born near Autun, in the rolling green heart of… Read more.

• The Girl Who Chose the Fire

  The Life of Saint Febronia of Nisibis (died 304 AD) The city of Nisibis sat on the edge of two… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Became a Bridge

  The Life of Saint Germanus of Paris (c. 496–576) The boy was born into a world that looked like the… Read more.

• The Girl Who Argued with Emperors

  The Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287–305) The philosophers filed into the great hall expecting an easy morning.… Read more.

• The Physician Who Healed Without a Price

  The Life of Saint Sampson the Hospitable (c. 480–530) The old man knelt in the mud beside a leper whom… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Fought a Dragon with Words

  The Life of Saint Niketas the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon (circa 760–838) The soldiers came for Niketas on a spring… Read more.

• The Physician Who Healed Without a Price

  The Life of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the Holy Unmercenaries (Third Century) Somewhere in the province of Asia Minor—where the… Read more.

• The Philosopher Who Fought with Questions

  The Life of Saint Justin Martyr (c. 100–165 AD) In the city of Flavia Neapolis—built on the bones of ancient… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Outfoxed an Empire

  The Life of Saint Athanasius the Great (296–373 AD) Five times they drove him out. Five times he came back.… Read more.

• 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.