As Archbishop of Western Europe (1950-1962), Saint John (Maximovitch) developed an avid interest in the Orthodox saints of the West. To promote their veneration, he issued a ukase calling upon his clergy “to commemorate during services-at the lityas and in other prayers, as well as at the dismissals-those God-pleasers who are the patrons of that locale…
Boston’s Patron Saint Few people are aware perhaps that the city of Boston derives its name from that of an Orthodox saint. St. Botolph, an early saint from Orthodoxy’s Western heritage, preached the gospel in England in the seventh century. There is a street in the city that still bears his name. Appropriately, an icon…
Saint Hilda of WhitbySaint Etheldreda of ElySaint LeobaSaint Walburga Our last feature devoted to Orthodoxy’s Western Heritage (OA #57) focused on the “Holy Isle” of Lindesfarne and the Golden Age of Christian missionary work in Britain–the seventh century which witnessed the apostolic labors of St. Aidan, St. Cuthbert, the brother Saints Chad, Cedd, and their…
Saint BeatusSaint Maurice and the Theban LegionSaint VerenaSaint Gall The history of Christianity in Switzerland is invariably associated with the names of Calvin and Zwingli, influential leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose forceful contempt of the Roman Church combined with their sense of mission to sweep away the evidence of history and have them crowned…
Saint Aidan: First AbbotSaint Cuthbert: Favored of God Lindisfarne: the Holy Isle Just before His Ascension, the Lord gave His disciples command to “Go…and teach all nations,” On the authority of Eusebius and others it is known that among those to hear the Gospels in the still infant years of the Church was the distant…
The Venerable Bede, Saint and Church Historian St. Bede the Venrable will be the subject of worldwide attention in 1985, the 1250th anniversary of his death. At least one icon, to the author’s knowledge, is being painted for the feast day, May 27th. Our subject did for British Christianity what Eusebius did for Constantinople and what St.…
