For those present in church, his teaching often evoked both tenderness and tears. Sometimes he visited theological gatherings of the city’s educated youth, headed by the future patriarch, Isidore.

Five hundred years before the anti-aristocratic purges of the French Revolution, Demetrius Cydones described in 1345, an orgy ...

The Church of Saint Demetrius, the protector of Thessaloniki Greece: Saint Demetrius, or Agios Dimitrios, (208 AD - 303 AD) is the patron saint of Thessaloniki. He was the son of a wealthy military ...

This Saint, who was from Thessalonica, was the daughter of pious and wealthy parents, After their death, she passed her life in virginity, serving God by means of good deeds. One day, as she was on ...

According to Codinus, both of them composed the canons of the Triodion during the reign of Leo the Armenian, while in the Church of Saint Romanus (see Nov. 18); he is not to be confused with Saint ...

Before writing 1 Thessalonians, Paul received good news from Timothy about the church at Thessalonica. Though imperfect (3:10), the Thessalonians were standing fast in their faith (3:8), so Paul ...