January 24, 2017
Stories

Tongan Uranopolitans

Another presence of Orthodoxy in distant Oceania. The cross of the Lord adorns and sanctifies the breasts, the place and the homes of our newly converted brothers and sisters. The bell of the Holy Apostles is small but its sound, sweet, joyful and moving, spreads as the voice of the Church across the length and breadth of the vast Pacific, inviting every unconverted person to come to the source of truth and life: “Come, all nations know the power of the terrible mystery…”

Missionary synaxary

St Cantoque: mission to the heretics

Saint Candock was born in Monmouthshire, Wales, in the late 5th century AD and came from a noble family. His parents, although of royal descent and economically and socially established, became monks, followed an ascetic life and are honoured by the Church as Saints. Both his mother and his spiritual father, the hermit priest Tathan, supported and guided him in his life in Christ. The Saint refused the earthly glories and titles offered to him by the world, as the child of illustrious parents, and devoted himself to spreading the Gospel to the nations, as a child of the Lord Jesus Christ…

60 years later: Event in memory of Holy Missionaries

Sunday 10/12 at A.P.Th.