Lives

Saint Mary: The Desert Dweller

By Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem. It is good to hide the secret of a king, but it is glorious to reveal and preach the works[…]

St. Xenia: The Homeless Wanderer

We know almost nothing about the early years of Blessed Xenia’s life. She was happily married to a colonel who was a court singer in[…]

Martyr Yevgeny Rodionov

Martyr Yevgeny When he was 11 years old, Yevgeny Rodionov received from his grandmother a little cross on a chain. He wanted to wear it[…]

Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim Rose

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[…]

St. Juvenaly – First Martyr of America

The holy, glorious, right-victorious hieromartyr Juvenaly of Alaska, Protomartyr of America, was a member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries who came from the[…]

Hardest of the Hardcore (Issue 3)

Originally published in Death to the World Issue #3, 1994.  There have been people throughout history and across the world who have sustained themselves by[…]