“The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The rich unknown heritage of Western Saints

by James Read

Despite the universality of the Holy Orthodox Church, it is not infrequently that converts confess to feeling “out of place” in the Russian, Greek, Serbian, or other ethnic tradition which, with few exceptions, dominates parish life in the Orthodox West. Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The rich unknown heritage of Western Saints”

“The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – St. Patrick

Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Celtic Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognised patron saint of Ireland (although Brigid of Kildare and Columba are also formally patron saints).was a Romano-Briton by birth. He was probably born in 390 on what is now the north-west coast of England at an unidentified place called Bannavem Taburniae. The son of a town councillor, his grandfather had been a priest. Bearing the Roman name ‘Patricius’, meaning ‘noble’, he was brought up to speak Latin but paid no attention to the teachings of Christianity.  Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – St. Patrick”

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