24 January 2020

Venerable Makedonios ‘the Barley-Eater’ of Antioch

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Saint Makedonios of Antioch The twenty-fourth of February is the feast-day of Saint Makedonios , another late-antique Syrian ascetic of th...
23 January 2020

Venerable Mausimas as-Sûryâni, Priest in Kyrrhos

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The ruins of a church at Kyrrhos, Syria The twenty-third of January is the feast day of Saint Mausimas [also Gk. Μαϋσιμάς, Ar. Mawsim مو...
21 January 2020

Arianism as class politics

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Joseph Priestley I’m posting this in part to clarify that very dense little turn of phrase in my hagiography of Emperor Saint Theodosius ...
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19 January 2020

What comes afterward? redux: post-liberalisms rising

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Given the somewhat worried tone of my non-hagiographical blog posts of late (like ‘ Hindsight and foresight ’ , ‘ Ideological history ’ , ‘ ...
18 January 2020

Venerable Ninnidh ‘Laobh Dearc’, Abbot of Inishmacsaint

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Inishmacsaint Monastery, County Fermanagh Today on the new calendar in the Orthodox Church is the feast-day of Saint Ninnidh of Inishmacsa...
17 January 2020

Holy and Right-Believing Emperor Theodosius of Rome

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Emperor Saint Theodosius The seventeenth of January is the feast-day of Emperor Theodosius , the last man to rule a united Roman Empire in...
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15 January 2020

Righteous Ceolwulf of Lindisfarne, King of Northumbria

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Ceolwulf’s forcible tonsure: lithograph by Ernest Prater, 1920 Today in the Orthodox Church we also venerate Saint Ceolwulf , the holy kin...