The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

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Abbot Nikephoros (sitting), Father Procopius, Fr. Ephraim and Fr. Job, which is the father after the flesh of Fr. Ephraim

On September 14, 1933, Evangelos decided to become a monk and went to Katounakia at the ...

June 30, 2025 by Fr. Peter Kavanaugh

When Was the Schism?

When was the Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity? St. Nectarios of Aegina rejected the date 1054, insisting: “no Ecumenical Council had been convened, nor a major Synod, nor was the Pope excommunicated, nor was it confirmed that ...

Elder Nektarios of Kavsokalyvia (+1989):

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He was born on 28.3.1904, Easter Sunday, in Perachora, Corinth. As a child, he moved with his parents to the village of Kapareli, Thebes. There ...

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An exemplary Athonite coenobiarch, the offspring of a very pious large family from Pyrgos of Elis, was Andreas Protogeropoulos in the world. Reading the lives of the saints turned him ...

Sedulius Scotus (c. 840–860) was an Irish monk, teacher, Latin grammarian, and scriptural commentator who lived in the 9th century. During the reign of the Emperor Lothair (840–855), he was one of a colony of Irish teachers at Liège. His most important work was the book De Rectoribus Christianis ...

Hieromartyr Stergios of Thessaloniki (+1935): In Thessalonica, Fr. Stergios Liouras, the married priest of the True Orthodox Church of the Three Hierarchs, was arrested after the Liturgy on the orders of the New Calendarist Metropolitan. He is beaten by the police and dies a few days later ...