St. John the Forerunner

We often have the impression that saints are sinless and infallible, but this is wrong. People who are great and triumphant in a wo...

It is not with ease that the saints went to Paradise, but they worked and struggled against the three enemies - the flesh, the world, a...

Photo: Archpriest Dionisy, azbuka.ru Most Protestant churches strongly reject all saintly intercession, citing passages such as 1...

  There is no question that only Christ is able to save us from sin. So, how can saints aid us? When we honor saints and ask them to ...

In our Prayer rule we can also ask the saints to intercede for us and to help us in our worldly struggles. Saints are those holy individu...

Saints come from every class and occupation, every temperament and background. They show us how Christ can be imitated in everyone's ...

To many people the Saints seem far removed from us. But the Saints are far only from people who have distanced themselves – they are ve...

      To many people the Saints seem far removed from us. But the Saints are far only from people who have distanced themselves – they ar...

To Have a Child St. Anna, Mother of the Theotokos St. Elizabeth, Mother of the Forerunner St. Sabbas the Sanctified of Palestine...

  Orthodox Iconography can be an extremely concise way of communicating the Faith. Therefore, what the Saints hold in their hands in po...