Saint Elen of Caernarfon The twenty-second of May in the Orthodox Church is the feast of Saint Elen of Caernarfon , also called Elen ‘of t...

Saint Helena of Constantinople My daughter Eleanore’s name day is today, the twenty-first of May. It’s the feast of her patron saint, Sai...

The neatherd (Erjan Nurymbet) and Kelin (Gulsharat Jubaeva) in Kelin Another Kazakh film that I watched recently was Ermek Tursynov’s 2009...

Gagarin (Asochakov) and Julie Mahé (de Villepin) in Baikonur I recently watched the 2011 German-Kazakhstani romantic comedy Baikonur dire...

Saint Dúnstán of Canterbury Today in the Orthodox Church we venerate one of the best-known saints of Old England and one of the greatest A...

Saint Breandán of Clonfert The sixteenth of May is the feast day of Saint Breandán of Clonfert , also known as Breandán ‘ the Navigator ’....

Saint Damhnait of Geel The fifteenth of May is the feast-day in the Orthodox Church of Saint Damhnait, a beautiful young woman who was mur...