Mar. 28 - St. Herodion, Apostle of the 70, and those with him ( sh.itjust.works )
Saints Herodion (Rodion), Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon and Hermes were among the Seventy Apostles, chosen by Christ and sent out by Him to preach....
Mar. 14 - St. Benedict of Nursia ( sh.itjust.works )
Saint Benedict, founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint’s parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by the immorality around him, he decided to devote himself to a different sort of life....
Mar. 9 - The 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste ( sh.itjust.works )
In the year 313, Saint Constantine the Great issued an edict granting Christians religious freedom, and officially recognizing Christianity as equal with paganism under the law. But his co-ruler Licinius was a pagan, and he decided to stamp out Christianity in his part of the Empire. As Licinius prepared his army to fight...
Feb. 28 - St. Basil the Confessor ( sh.itjust.works )
Saint Basil the Confessor was a monk and suffered during the reign of the iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741). When a persecution started against those who venerated holy icons, Saint Basil and his companion Saint Procopius of Decapolis were subjected to much torture and locked up in prison. Here both martyrs...
