Jesus, God of my heart, come and unite me to Thyself forever.
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Sep 17th, 2008
Troparion - Tone 4
The Church celebrates and rejoices
In the feast of the three daughters: Faith, Hope, and Love
And their Mother Sophia, named for her wisdom:
For in them she gave birth to the three godly virtues.
Now they eternally behold their bridegroom, God the Word.
Let us rejoice spiritually in their memory and cry:
O our three Heavenly Protectors,
Establish, [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Sep 16th, 2008
Commemorated on September 16
The Holy Martyr Ludmilla was married to Czech Prince Borivoy, and both were baptized by St. Methodius, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of the Slavs.
As Christians, they showed concern for the enlightening of their subjects. With the light of the true Faith, they built churches and invited priests to celebrate the divine [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Sep 5th, 2008
St. Elizabeth, Mother of St. John the Baptist
Commemorated on September 5
The Righteous Elizabeth was the mother of the holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John. She was descended from the lineage of Aaron, and was the sister of St. Anna, the mother of the Most Holy Theotokos. The righteous spouses, “walking in all [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Sep 4th, 2008
St. Christodoula, The Mother Of Urban, Prilidian, Epolonius
Commemorated on September 4
Saint Christodoula was the mother of the three youths Urban, Prilidian, Epolonius who suffered martyrdom with Hieromartyr Babylas under Emperor Decius (249-251).
The emperor tried in all sorts of ways to entice the youths and their mother to renounce Christ, but in vain. In a rage, [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Sep 2nd, 2008
St. Rufina of Caesarea
Commemorated on September 2
The holy martyrs Theodotus and Rufina were the parents of St. Mamas. They came from patrician families, and were honored by all for their Christian piety. Alexander, the magistrate of the city of Gangra, summoned them because they refused to obey the imperial decree requiring all citizens to worship [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 30th, 2008
Saint Angelina was the daughter of Prince George Skenderbeg of Albania and she was raised in Christian piety.
St Stephen Brancovich (October 9 and December 10), the ruler of Serbia, had come to Albania to escape those who wished to kill him. Some time before he arrived in Albania, St Stephen was unjustly blinded by the [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 17th, 2008
Saint Militsa was the mother of St Stephen, and was known for her quick wit and her pious life. She founded the Lubostina women’s monastery, in which she was tonsured with the name Eugenia. She died at the monastery as a schema-nun on November 11, 1405.
It appears that she is commemorated on both July 19th [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 7th, 2008
Saint Euphrosyne, in the world Eudokia, was the daughter of the Suzdal prince Demetrius Constantovich (+ 1383), and from 1367 was the wife of the Moscow Great Prince Demetrius of the Don. Their happy union was for Russia a pledge of unity and peace between Moscow and Suzdal.h
The holy princess was a builder of churches. [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 5th, 2008
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia (February 24, 1864 – July 18, 1918) Elizabeth was the second child and daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, a daughter of Queen Victoria. In the winter of 1878, diphtheria swept through the Hesse household, killing both Elizabeth’s youngest [...]
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 3rd, 2008
This is the beginning of something that I have been thinking about for a while: focusing on saints who were mothers.
Since many of my readers are mothers, I think it would be nice to look at saints who walked a similar path to ours. So often, I think of saints as people who were unmarried [...]
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