God, King, and Nation

Feastdays: martyrdom August 22, translation of Relics: 22 January

Her martyrdom occurred around 303-306 AD.

Before she was martyred Jesus appeared to her and promised that whoever mentions her name or intercedes through h...

Feastday 24 February

Icon of Saint John Theristus together with his Spiritual Guides: Saint Ambrose of Bivongi and Saint Nicholas of Bivongi

NOTE: Saint John Theristus is included in the “Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church, volume 3” compiled by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petras from Mount Athos. He has also been ...

Feastday: 2 June

He is included in the “Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church”, vol. 3 by Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petras

PATRONAGE: Youth, Against madness, mental illnesses, for children against abusive parents

Kontakion 1

Chosen pilgrim and fool for Christ,...

by Mike Rienzi

“We all of us have the most formidable dynamite, the most advanced weapon of war, more powerful than tanks and machine guns: it is our own ashes!”

– Ion Mota, 1935

Who was Ion Mota, described by Roger Griffin as “a fanatical anti-Semite” (1), and why is he and his life important for pro-Western activism?

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Kontakion 1

Chosen by God as the son of promise, born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age according to the word of the Lord, you who were offered in obedience on Mount Moriah and received back as from the dead, Holy Patriarch Isaac, intercede with the God of your fathers for us who sing to you: Rejoice, Isaac, beloved son and gentle patriarch,...