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Showing posts with label Saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saints. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Five Christian Saints Associated with Werewolves

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St. Christopher with the head of a dog The first mention of a werewolf is in Greek mythology, when Lykaon was turned into a wolf after d...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The Witches' Days of Winter in Slovakia - November 25 to December 13

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The time between the feast of Saint Katherine (November 25) and Saint Lucy (December 13) used to be called Witches’ Days in Slovakia, as wo...
Monday, October 19, 2015

The Haunted Monastic Cell Of A Heretic

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  By St. John Moschos Abba John the Cilician told us that while he was staying at the ninth mile-post from Alexandria, an Egyptian monk vis...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The Demonology of the Life of St. Symeon the Fool

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St. Symeon the Fool for Christ (Feast Day - July 21) Below are excerpts from the Life of Symeon the Fool by Leontios of Cyprus that con...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Saint Glykeria and the Pagan Magician Paulinus

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St. Glykeria the Great Martyr (Feast Day - May 13) Dositheos in his Dodekavivlos records that the holy relics of Saint Glykeria were in...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Why Saint George is Often Depicted Slaying a Dragon

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By John Sanidopoulos The well-known story of St. George killing the dragon is obviously a legend and not a fact of history, since dragons ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Saint Patrick's Confrontations with Demons and Druids

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By Jim Wies Patrick was as fully aware as the Celts that the power of the druids was real, but he brought news of a stronger power. There ...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Saint Columba and the Loch Ness Monster

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The event described below by St. Adomnan (c. 690) in his Vita Sancti Columbae is said to have happened in 565 AD: Concerning a Certain W...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

The Power In Crossing Ourselves

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By St. Nikolai Velimirovich Mysterious is the power of the Cross no matter how unexplainable, it is true and indisputable. Yet, St. John...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

St. Paul the Simple Battles a Powerful Demon

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St. Paul the Simple (Feast Day - March 7 and October 4) By Palladius of Helenopolis  ( Lausiac History , Ch. 28) The great and blessed ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Saint Haralambos and the Demon Possessed

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Many of the weighty difficulties which befall man have their cause, known or unknown, in his past. However, the causes of these weighty diff...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Holy New Martyr Anastasios of Nafplion (+ 1655)

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St. Anastasios of Nafplion (Feast Day - February 1 and June 4) By St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite Verse The limbs of your flesh were cut An...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Why is Saint Anastasia Known as the "Deliverer From Potions" (Pharmakolitria)?

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By John Sanidopoulos The Great Martyr Anastasia of Sirmium was martyred sometime between 290 and 304, but after her relics were transferre...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

The Life of Saints Cyprian and Justina the Martyrs

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Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Feast Day - October 2) Sts. Cyprian and Justina are the patron saints of those afflicted from spells, curses, wi...