Tag: theosis

• The Bishop Whose Blood Remembers Fire

  The Life of Saint Januarius, Bishop of Benevento (ca. 275–305) The mountain was always burning. Vesuvius sat above the Bay… Read more.

• The Goth Who Would Not Bow to Fire

  The Life of Saint Savva the Goth (334–372) The river was swollen with spring melt the night they dragged Savva… Read more.

• The Abbess Who Refused to Disappear

  The Life of Saint Athanasia of Aegina (c. 790–860) On the island of Aegina, where the sea beats against rocks… Read more.

• The Woman Who Outargued an Empire

  The Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 287–305) The fifty philosophers filed into the emperor’s hall like soldiers marching… Read more.

• The Woman Who Taught the Philosophers to See

  The Life of Saint Macrina the Younger (c. 327–379) The house was full of weeping when Gregory arrived. He had… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Planted Trees in the Desert

  The Life of Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD) The heat in Caesarea that summer was the kind that made… 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 Queen Who Walked Into the Fire

  The Life of Saint Theodora of Arta (†1270s) The castle at Arta sat on a hill above the river Arachthos,… 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.