St. Zotic: Orphanage and Mission

He approached the king asking for gold and promised him that with it he would buy pearls and precious stones to offer to him and the empire. Constantine relented and granted Zoticus as much gold as he needed. Immediately, the Saint came to an understanding with the soldiers who were assigned to kill the lepers. Bribing them, he bought the sick, transported them to a region outside Byzantium, made tents for them to live in, and tried in every possible way to ease their pain…

The Apostle Andrew and the missionary work of the Ecumenical Patriarchate until the Fall

After Jesus’ final and decisive command to his disciples, just before his ascension, which was decisive for all humanity: “Go ye into the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation”, the Apostle Andrew, the first-called, was called to illuminate with the unique, indescribable and always relevant light of the Gospel Bithynia, the regions around the Black Sea, Byzantium, Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly and the Peloponnese…

The Evangelist Luke and the Missionary Handbook

The Evangelist Luke and the Missionary Handbook

It is true that the writing of the Acts of the Apostles that Saint Luke left as a legacy to Christians and especially to missionary people is valuable. It not only informs us historically about the spread of the Gospel which was carried out in every – God-allowable – way and at every cost by the Apostles, but it makes the “Acts of the Apostles” a model and a missionary manual for all of us who are more or less active in this ministry…

Saints Olga and Vladimir, the Enlighteners of the Russians

Vladimir did not rest in idols, in the power murders he committed and in the obscenities he fell into with the hundreds of concubines he had, just as a man who knows the law of God does not rest in a life of sin. He was tormented, in a good sense, by the truth his grandmother taught him! On the other hand, he wanted, free spirit that he was, to examine and learn about the religions of the neighbouring countries of his empire…