Saint Spyridon of Corfu – The Miracle Worker
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...
Category: Greek Saints
Saint Fanourios and the Fanouropita – The Greek Lost and Found Cake
The Fanouropita, the cake traditionally eaten on the Feast Day of Saint Fanourios, the 27th of August, is called the lost and found cake because it is associated with Saint Fanourios the...
Archangels and Fallen Angels
In Heaven as on Earth things didn’t inevitably run smoothly. There’s invariably that one entity who considers himself superior to others, so it was with Lucifer. Lucifer was originally created by God as...
Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki Greece
Saint Demetrius, patron Saint of Thessaloniki, was a Christian martyr born into an aristocratic family of the Roman province of Macedonia in 270 AD. He is one of the most popular saints of...
Assumption Day – 15 August – The Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary
15 August, Assumption Day; the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God. In Greece this is the third most important religious celebration in Greece after Easter and...
Saint John The Baptist – John the Forerunner
Saint John the Baptist’s main Feast Day, celebrated by The Greek Orthodox Church, is “The Synaxis of Saint John the Forerunner”, on the seventh of January. Saint John the Baptist, who was...
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
On 25 November, The Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, referred to in Greece as “The Great Martyr Saint Catherine” (Η Αγία Αικατερίνα η Μεγαλομάρτυς), Patron...
Epiphany in Greece – Theophania – Ton Foton – 6 January
It’s the sixth of January and Christmas has officially come to an end and it is Epiphany; called “Ton Foton” in Greece: “The Festival of Lights” This Feast Day is known as...
Saint Nicholas of Myra – The Greek Origins of Santa Claus
Saint Nicholas of Myra (Modern day Demre, Turkey), also known as Saint Nicholas of Bari (Italy), was born a Greek on the fifteenth of March 270 in Patara in Lycia (Turkey) and died...
Saint Andrew the Apostle – Feast Day 30th November
Saint Andrew’s day is celebrated worldwide on the thirtieth of November. Andrew, the Patron Saint of Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Scotland, was a fisherman and brother of Saint Peter, the first disciple...
