The Orthodox Way

Wales is a land which has rightly been said to have been built on the saints, and almost every other town or village is called Llan-something, which represents the Welsh…

d. 3rd centuryPlaces: St Albans, England. Verulamium Alban was the first Christian to be put to death for his faith in Roman Britain and is therefore the proto-martyr of the…

Among the missionary saints and bishops of the British Isles, St Kentigern stands as one of the most important. During the sixth century, and to the beginning of the seventh…

Excerpt from St Severus against Julian As for the word of philosophical significance which is pronounced by Job the valiant in these terms: “Who in fact would be pure from…

Text XI. – At the same time, there was yet another demonstration in Jerusalem similar to the previous one, which announced in advance the injustice which was going to be…

Text X. The facts which are about to be reported will perhaps seem incredible and stupendous to some, but, if I am telling them, it is because pure, old and…

In the museum at Norton Priory, just outside Runcorn, there is an important and visible reminder of the ancient connections between Britain and Egypt. The monastery houses a collection of…

We must ask what we mean by the word Orthodox. Of course we now that it is made up of the Greek words ortho – having a sense of right,…

A Catechesis which was given, according to the custom, on the Wednesday of the Great Week of Pascha, that is to say of the Passion, addressed to those who were…

Introduction by Prof. George Schodde The confession, of which we here give a translation, has been preserved by his spiritual children in Ethiopia. The original and a German transla­tion were…