GAA members have raised £30,000 for a new mobile maternity unit to help people the people of Gaza when a permanent ceasefire ...

How to become an iconographer St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church in Springettsbury Township has been adding icons to their walls for years. The iconographer, Elias Katsaros who lives ...

The church finally was named St. Mary Major because it is the largest and most eminent of all the 26 churches now in Rome named in honor of the Blessed Mother. In 1969, following the Second Vatican ...

Egypt’s ambassador to the United States, Moataz Zahran, and a high-level delegation joined the celebration of Easter Liturgy at the St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington DC on Holy Saturday.

St Mary's Catholic Church is expected to hold a special mass in honour of Pope Francis. Date and time of the mass will be revealed soon, said Father Lennie.

He escorted me into the original, fourth-century church, and showed me the bier containing the remains of St. Bishoy, who died in Upper Egypt at age 97 in a.d. 417.

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The Typikon of the Evergetides Monastery indicates that the canon of St. Mary of Egypt was to be read not along with the Great Canon, but at the pannychis 1 (in fact, another canon, in the Sixth Tone, ...

18th-century Russian icon of Saint Mary of Egypt. (Wikipedia) St. Mary of Egypt was born in 344 AD, and moved to the city of Alexandria when she was 12 years old, where she worked as a prostitute.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 20, 2025, at St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church, 102 E. Broadway Street, Greenwood, Indiana.

Mary of Egypt. Painting by José de Ribera. Public Domain In Sophronios’ biography, Mary then embraced the life of solitude and asceticism in the desert that would make her famous – and a saint.