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The Lives of the Spiritual Mothers: An Orthodox Materikon of Women Monastics and Ascetics, Throughout the Year, According to the Church Calendar

Translated and Compiled from the Greek of The Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church and other sources

Volume 6 of Lives of the Saints Series

“This collection of Spiritual Mothers, or Materikon, contains more than fifty hagiographies about holy Orthodox nuns and ascetics. The holy Mothers of the Orthodox Church, setting their minds upon achieving the virtues, renounced the riches and the pleasures of this world. They understood that they could not be devotees to both this world and the future one. As good soldiers of Christ, they fought daily to immolate the passions that assail us. Many counted it joy to be cursed, censured, ground down, and even to be executed in the name of their Bridegroom, Jesus Christ.”
—“Preface”

CONTENTS

JANUARY
   5. Saint Syncletike of Alexandria
   8. Saint Domnica of Carthage
   8. Saint Vasilissa of Egypt
   24. Saint Xene of Rome
FEBRUARY
   12. Saint Mary of Alexandria
   19. Saint Philothei of Athens
   28. Saints Marana and Kyra of Berœa
MARCH
   1. Saint Evdokia of Heliopolis
   1. Saint Domnine the New of Kyros
   10. Saint Anastasia of Constantinople
APRIL
   5. Saint Theodora of Thessalonica
   12. Saint Anthousa of Constantinople
   18. Saint Athanasia of Aigina
   24. Saint Elisabeth of Constantinople
MAY
   29. Saint Theodosia of Constantinople
JUNE
   4. Saint Sophia of Ainos
   9. Saints Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Ennatha of Persia
   10. Saint Pansemne of Antioch
   25. Saint Fevronia of Nisibis
JULY
   13. Saint Sarra of the Nile
   19. Saint Macrina-Thecla of Neo-Cæsarea
   23. Saint Anna of Levkadio
   25. Saint Olympia of Constantinople
   25. Saint Evpraxia of Tabenna
   26. Saint Paraskeve of Rome
   27. Saint Anthousa of Mandineo
   28. Saint Irene of Chrysovalandou
AUGUST
   12. Saint Xene-Irene of Hungary and Constantinople
   22. Saint Anthousa of Seleucia
   29. Saint Theodora of Aigina and Thessalonica
SEPTEMBER
   7. Saint Cassiane of Constantinople
   11. Saint Theodora of Alexandria
   24. Saint Thecla of Iconium
   25. Saint Evphrosyne of Alexandria
   30. Saints Rhipsimia, Gaïane, and 32 Virgin-Martyrs of Rome and Armenia
OCTOBER
   2. Saint Justina of Antioch
   8. Saint Pelagia of Antioch and Jerusalem
   9. Saint Athanasia of Antioch and Egypt
   9. Saint Poplia of Antioch
   20. Saint Matrona of Chios
   29. Saint Anastasia of Rome
   29. Saint Mary of Edessa
   29. Saint Anna of Constantinople
NOVEMBER
   5. Saint Episteme of Emesa and Sinai
   9. Saint Matrona of Constantinople
   9. Saint Theoctiste of Lesvos and Paros
   9. Saints Eustolia of Rome and Sopatra of Constantinople
DECEMBER
   24. Saint Eugenia of Alexandria and Rome
   30. Saint Theodora of Cæsarea
   A Final Word
   Select Sayings of the Holy Mothers
   Bibliography
   Index of Women Saints
   General Index
   Other Publications by the Same Publishers
MAPS
   Asia Minor, Egypt, the Middle East, and the Near East
   Egypt and the Sinai
   Cappadocia and Pontus of Asia Minor
   Iconium of Asia Minor and Seleucia Pieria of Syria
   Mount Ararat and Surrounding Countries
   Antioch in Syria and Surrounding Countries
   Western Asia Minor and the Aegean
   The Cyclades, Dodecanese and Sporades Islands of Greece

Item Number: BKA148C
Publication data: Buena Vista, CO: Holy Apostles Convent, 1991
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: xxvi + 624
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.0 cm × 14.0 cm × 4.4 cm
Additional information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN-10: 0‒944359‒05‒1
ISBN-13: 978‒0‒944359‒05‒1

$35.95 (USD)

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