Tag: truth-telling

• 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 Girl Who Stood Before the Emperor and Did Not Flinch

  The Life of Saint Christina of Tyre (3rd Century) The house smelled of gold. That was the first strange thing… 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.

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  The Scholar Who Wrote Ten Thousand Letters

  The Life of Saint Isidore of Pelusium (ca. 360-436) The ship rocked against the Egyptian harbor, and the young man… Read more.