Tag: beauty

• The Girl Who Walked Through Fire for a Garden

  The Life of Saint Dorothea of Caesarea (died c. 311 AD) The executioner’s blade was already drawn when a young… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Fought Dragons with Words

  The Life of Saint Nikitas of Chalcedon (died c. 842) The emperor’s soldiers came for the icons at dawn. They… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Fought a Dragon with Words

  The Life of Saint Niketas the Bishop of Chalcedon (8th–9th Century) The soldiers came for Niketas on a cold morning.… Read more.

• The Girl Who Sang the World Back Together

  The Life of Saint Audrey of Ely (c. 636–679) On the flat, wind-scoured fenlands of eastern England, where the sky… 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.

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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.

• The Poet Who Wept for the World

  The Life of Ephraim the Syrian (306-373) Ephraim was born in Nisibis, a city caught between two empires—Roman and Persian—where… Read more.