Clockwise from top left: Saints Kevin of Glendalough; Moluag of Lismore; Columba of Iona; Alban, Protomartyr of Britain; Onuphrius the Great; and Audrey of Ely. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Kevin of Glendalough, 3/16 June Our venerable father Kevin of Glendalough, Wonderworker of Ireland, was the founding Abbot of Glendalough and is one of the patron saints of […]
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Orthodox Saints for Dixie: May
Top row (from left to right): Saints Comgall of Bangor and Pachomius the Great of Egypt.Bottom row (from left to right): Saints Augustine of Canterbury, Apostle of the English; Brendan the Voyager; Timothy and Maura of Egypt; and Germanus of Paris. By Walt Garlington ♱ Sts. Timothy and Maura of Egypt, 3/16 May These holy […]
Orthodox Place Names in Louisiana
By Walt Garlington St. James Parish —Named for the Holy Apostle James, the brother of St. John the Theologian “The son of Zebedee and brother of John, he was one of the Twelve. At the call of the Lord Jesus, he left his fishing nets and his father and, together with John, immediately followed […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: April
Clockwise from top left: Sts. Paternus of Wales; Guthlac of Crowland; Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury; Isidore, Bishop of Sevill;, and Mary of Egypt. By Walt Garlington ♱ Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt, 1/14 April One of the greatest saints of the Church and an icon of the extraordinary fruits true repentance can produce. Our venerable mother […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: March
Clockwise from top left: Sts. Edward the Martyr, Benedict of Nursia, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, David of Wales, and Patrick of Ireland. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. David, Patron Saint of Wales, 1/14 March Our father among the saints David of Wales, known in Welsh as Dewi Sant, is the patron saint of Wales and considered by many […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: February
Clockwise from top left: Saints Brigid of Kildare; Caedmon, the first Orthodox English hymnwriter; Ethelbert of Kent, First Christian King of the English; Teilo of Wales; and Leander of Seville, Apostle of Spain. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Brigid of Kildare, 1/14 February The “Mary of Ireland”; our venerable Mother Brigid of Kildare, or Brigid of […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: January
A Selection of Saints of the British Isles and Western Europe and Africa From left to right: St. Genevieve of Paris, St. Kentigern of Glasgow, St. Sebastian of Rome, and St. Anthony the Great of Egypt. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Genevieve of Paris, 3/16 January As a child St. Geneviève met St. Germanus of […]
Orthodox Saints for Dixie: December
A Selection of Saints of the British Isles and Western Europe and Africa Clockwise from top left: Saints Birinus, Ambrose, Finnian, Lucy, and Flannan. By Walt Garlington ♱ St. Birinus, Apostle of Wessex, 3/16 December Birinus, a native of Lombardy, consecrated Bishop by Asterius Bishop of Genoa, and then sent by Pope Honorius to convert […]
Hillbilly Thomists or Hillbilly Hesychasts for the South?
By Walt Garlington “Through this (theoria) a man is deified, not through reflecting on words or visible things, but taught by silence.” — St. Gregory Palamas Mr. Joseph Pearce gives a very good illustration of how the West has gone astray after leaving its first love, the Orthodox Church, for Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. At […]
