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The Holy Martyrs Saint Sophia and her three daughters, Pistis (Faith), Elpis (Hope) and Agapi (Love), were born in Italy in the Second Century, AD, in the time of Emperor Hadrian. (Agapi,...
Saint Paraskevi, considered a healer of the blind, was born in Rome in around 130 A.D, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Her Feast Day is celebrated on July 26 Paraskevi’s...
Saints Constantine and Helen share a feast day which is celebrated on the 21st of May. Saint Helen Saint Helen of Constantinople c. 250-328 AD, said to have been...
Saint Barbara, a third-century martyr, lived in Nicomedia with her rich pagan father, Dioscorus, who imprisoned her in a tower and after discovering she had secretly become a Christian, beheaded Barbara himself...
Pentecost (from the Greek ‘pentekostos’, meaning the fiftieth day) is a ‘moveable feast’ celebrated each year on the fiftieth day after Easter and ten days after the Feast of the Ascension of Christ...
Saint George was born a Greek in Cappadocia, Asia Minor, today’s Turkey; after his parents died he travelled to Nicomedia, an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, where he joined the Roman...
Saint Stephen’s Day, or the feast of Saint Stephen, is a Christian saint’s day commemorating Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr celebrated on 26 December in the Latin Church and 27 December...
The Feast Day of Agios Vasileios or Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea is celebrated on the first of January; New Year’s Day. Traditionally Greek children don’t receive presents from Santa Claus, Saint...
Saint Spyridon (270 – 348 A.D), Bishop of Trimythous and Patron Saint of the Greek Island of Corfu (Kerkyra in Greek) whose Feast day is celebrated on the twelfth of December, was born...
Until I watched Katerina (Not only a top chef, owner of the popular Maistrali Taverna Loutraki but also a mine of information) make this symbolic cake I had no idea about the wonderful story...
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