Willie’s Reviews > The Synaxarion: The Lives Of The Saints Of The Orthodox Church, Volume 1: Introduction, September, October > Status Update

I'll be heading to Czech before too long, and it was good to read for the first time about their first saint, Hieromartyr Gorazd, Bishop of Slovakia and the Czech Lands.

Unbelief in God is what kept the Israelites out of the promised land, but not only them, Moses also could not enter, all because of unbelief. How easy it is to not completely trust God daily. Be careful, and quit falling into unbelief.

Apostle Philip's daughter, Hermione, while tortured, "no sound came out of her lips except verses from the Psalms."

miraculously undamaged iconsafter being thrown in water and reclaimed several years later also happened during the iconaclastic period.

Asceticism, with all night prayers and little sleep is a common them among Saints.