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Showing posts with label Saints of September. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saints of September. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Holy Myrtle of Paliani and the Continuation of Tree Worship in Crete

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The most characteristic case of tree worship, which has been preserved for centuries in Crete, concerns the Sacred Myrtle of Paliani. By Ele...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Saint Anthimos the Serpent-Hunter of Kefallonia

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Venerable Anthimos Kourouklis, the Blind Ascetic of Kefallonia, who reposed on September 4th 1782, is also associated with the Greek island ...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Saint Herakleides and the Demoniac Who Issued Forth a Snake and Two Crabs

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A well-attested story from 1769 states the following.    A certain Hadji named Savvas, an inhabitant of the Phaneromeni district of Nicosia...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Saint Ioanniki of Svyatogorsk and the Malicious Demoniac with a Distorted Face and Inhuman Voice

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The following incident took place according to the testimony of Andrei Fedorovich Kovalevsky (1840-1901), who was a pious Kharkov landowner...
Friday, September 4, 2020

Demons Fear the Power of Holy Relics - The Case of St. Babylas

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By St. Nikolai Velimirovich A saint's power after his death is often many times greater than in life. "That is why God left us th...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

The Saint Who Starved and the Witch Who Devoured

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In the Orthodox Church we commemorate a Saint on September 3rd who is relatively unknown to us, except for his name and how he died. His na...
Friday, September 8, 2017

The Saint Who Bound A Demon and Rode It Like a Horse

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St. John of Novgorod (Feast Day - September 7) By St. Dimitri of Rostov Once, at midnight, as [Archbishop John of Novgorod] stood as us...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

When St. John the Theologian Faced the Magician Kynops on the Island of Patmos

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There was on the island of Patmos, where the Holy Apostle John was exiled to, a certain magician by the name of Kynops, who lived in the wi...