ST SARKIS THE WARRIOR AND HIS SON ST MARDIROS (MARTYROS) The feast day honoring St. Sarkis is movable. It occurs between January 11th and February 15th. Each year it follows the five day Fast of Catechumens. Sarkis was a Greek from the area of Cappadocia on the Anatolian plain. He was a proud, brave... Read More »
The Armenian Apostolic Church, observes the Feast of the Birth of St John the Baptist, the Forerunner, in January. The birth of St John is described in detail in the Gospel according to St Luke (1:5-25). He is known as the ‘forerunner’ because it was he who would herald the news of the Saviour... Read More »
Some time after the spread of Christianity, the ascetic movement began. Hermits were people who devoted themselves entirely to God, withdrew to uninhabited places and through prayer and fasting, by the grace of God, overcame human weaknesses, achieving spiritual perfection. Years later, hermits also received the gift of healing through miracles and prayers.... Read More »
The Armenian Church commemorates Theodosius I, the Roman Emperor (379 to 395) who put an end to the last of paganism and the Arian heresy in the empire (The doctrine denying the true divinity of Christ, named after the Alexandrian priest Arius c. 250–c. 336). He was recognised as a “just and mighty Christian... Read More »
During different periods of history, the Ecumenical Church has faced various problems of doctrinal, administrative and organisational natures, solutions to which have been provided during the Ecumenical Councils. One of such councils was the Second Ecumenical Council, convened upon the order of the King Theodosios in Constantinople, in 381. As the result of Arian... Read More »
