Holy Fathers

Eugene Rose was born into a typical middle-class American family in San Diego in 1934. Like many young Americans, the materialistic attitude of the society[…]

Saint Nikolai of Optina was born by the name Yusuf Abdul. He was born in Asia Minor in 1827 or 1828, in the largely-Armenian village[…]

It is necessary today, living in an age of distraction and materialistic stupor, that we become acquainted with holy persons that struggled against the same[…]

A homily given by Fr Seraphim Rose on St Patrick’s feast day in 1977. Fr Seraphim, being an avid venerator of the Western Saints pre-schism,[…]

I have always felt that only God truly knows who the saints are until He chooses to reveal them to us, but how does this[…]

Commemorated August 28th. Saint Moses Murin the Black lived during the fourth century in Egypt. He was an Ethiopian, and he was black of skin[…]

From Issue 19 In 1917, the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism resulted in the deaths of millions of believers and destroyed countless churches[…]

From Issue #23 Here we re-print the life of a lover of truth that has become known as the Patron of lost things. Today, more[…]

Elder Nikolai With a deep love for God and the Heavenly Queen, a monk once asked in his sincere prayer, “show me what mortal in[…]

Michael was born in 1877 in the country of Latvia. He had hardly reached the age of one and a half when his mother died;[…]

Father Seraphim was born into a typical white middle class Protestant family in San Diego in 1934. While growing up, he was the proverbial dutiful[…]