THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

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Silouan of Athos (1866-1938) monk In 1938, Starets Silouan died in his monastery on Mt. Athos.Semën (Symeon) Ivanovich Antonov was born in 1866 in Sovsk, Russia, into a poor peasant f...

Ketevan of Georgia (d. 1624) martyr On today's date, which corresponds to September 12 in the Julian calendar, the Georgian church commemorates one of its most popular saints, the martyr Ke...

Cosma and Damian (d. ca. 303) martyrs At the beginning of the fourth century, the doctors Cosma and Damian, who are known in the East as the holy "anagiri," or "unmercenaries," were martyred in ...

Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) priest On September 27, 1660 Vincent de Paul, who established the Mission Congregation and a myriad of charitable organizations on behalf of the poor and marginalized...

Confucius (551-479 BCE) righteous among the nations In 479 Kong Qiu Zhongni, better known in the West by his latinized name Confucius ("the master of the Kong family"), died in what is now the c...

God's angels and messangers Today the Western churches commemorate the Lord's angels and messengers. According to the Biblical view, the angels

Jerome (ca. 342-420) Church father and monk Jerome, a monk and Church father, died in Bethlehem in the year 420.

On April 24 Brother Enzo has been warmly welcomed by His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Christodulos at the Orthodox Archbishop's palace in Athens. This was their second meet...

Theresa of Lisieux (1873-1897) nun The teaching she left with her life on the absolute primacy of love, even in the darkness of doubt that clouds the believer's heart

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Dionysius the Areopagite witnessToday the Orthodox churches commemorate the author of the Corpus Areopagiticum, who became known in history as Dionysius the Areopagite.

Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) witness Francis died at the young age of forty-four, naked and immersed in the creaturely peace he had always loved and celebrated in his songs of praise to God

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Bruno the Carthusian (ca. 1030-1011) monk It is prayer, according to Bruno, that allows us to become fully human as we struggle silently in our hearts, day after day

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Sergius of Radonezh (1314-1392)monkSergius preached universal, cosmic peace and taught generations of monks to pray that the world, torn apart as it was by hatred, would be pervaded by the love

Abraham, father of all believers in the one God, prophetTogether with his wife Sarah, Abraham listens obediently to God's word and puts it into practice without delay. Both became models of faith in t...

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John XXIII (1881-1963) pastor and ecumenical witnessAngelo Roncalli, who became Pope John XXIII in 1958, died in Rome on June 3, 1963 at the age of eighty-two. He died the following year in the s...

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) witnessToday the Anglican Church commemorates Elizabeth Fry, a prison reformer.

Madeleine Delbrél (1904-1964) witnessMadeleine Delbrêl, a witness to the Gospel, died unexpectedly in 1964, in the years of her full human and Christian maturity.

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Theresa of Avila (1515-1582) nunToday the Catholic and Anglican churches commemorate Theresa of Jesus, a Carmelite nun and reformer of her Order.

Baldwin of Ford (ca. 1120-1190) monk and pastor In 1190 the Cistercian monk and Archbishop of Canterbury Baldwin of Ford died in Tyre, Lebanon.

Ignatius of Antioch (d. ca. 115) pastor and martyr Ignatius strenuously defended the reality of the Word's Incarnation and bore witness to the Resurrection with his own martyrdom

Luke evangelist True to his calling as a scribe of Christ's mercy, Luke insists on Jesus' love for sinners and on the breadth and depth of his forgiveness

Paul of the Cross (1694-1775) priest In January 1694 Paolo Danei, better known as Paul of the Cross, was born in Ovada, near Alessandria in northwest Italy. He was a priest and the founder of the Pas...

Jewish martyrs of the Russian pogroms (d. 1905) In October 1905, pogroms against Jews broke out in many parts of Russia.