Saint Daniel the Stylite December 11 Listen to the Saint's life in English: Related links: Elizabeth A. S. Dawes, Three Byzantine Saints (Orthodox Bookstore) The Life of Saint Daniel the Stylite (Mystagogy) The Daniel the Stylite and the demon-haunted church (Mystagogy)
Saint Patapios of Thebes December 8 Listen to the Saint's life in English: Related links: The Life and Miracles of St Patapois of Thebes (Mystagogy)
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker December 6 Saint Nicholas was a child of God from a young age, being a miraculous answer to the prayers of his barren parents. Having given birth to the baby Nicholas, his mother was immediately healed from an illness, foretelling of the great future of the Saint. At his baptism, the new born stood for three hours in the font without any help, thereby honouring the Holy Trinity. As a baby, he would not accept milk from his mother on Wednesdays and Fridays, honouring the fasts of the Church. As a young boy, Nicholas [...]
Saint John of Damascus December 4 Homily on the Holy Cross Listen to the Saint's life in English: Listen to the Saint's life in Greek: Related links: Constantine Cavarnos, Saint John Damascene (Orthodox Bookstore) Brian E. Daley, On the Dormition Of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies (Orthodox Bookstore) St. John of Damascus, Three Treatises on the Divine Images (Orthodox Bookstore) John Reading, St John of Damascus On the Divine Images (Orthodox Bookstore) The Life of Saint John of Damascus (Mystagogy) Homilies of St John of Damascus (english translations, newadvent.org) Homilies of [...]
Saint Barbara December 4 Saint Barbara was the daughter of the rich and illustrious pagan, Dioscorus. After the death of his wife, he ensured the utmost care be taken for his daughter, and because of her extraordinary beauty and knowledge, he hid her in a tower. Here, the only contact she had with other people was when her private tutors came to teach her, and therefore, she was able to contemplate the mysteries of God, Whom she did not know. She decided that she would devote her life to finding the Creator of this world, its beauties she [...]