The Great Synaxaristes - July

The Great Synaxaristes - JulyA welcome addition to the growing resources for saints' lives in English, drawn from the Greek Great Synaxaristes. To some extent, of course, these materials duplicate those appearing in the Synaxarion, but in many cases the lives are more extensive, and numerous entries appear here which do not appear in the Synaxarion. The works are complementary. Hard Bound

drawn from the Greek Great Synaxaristes

Constructed in traditional line-by-line fashion

he was also an exemplary philanthropist

tried-and-tested model of  spiritual life

beginning with the little-known prayers of the Proskomedia

chrismation

were firm in their faith

almost at every step

organized thematically under headings such as spiritual warfare

By no means light reading

and embraces as well an account of his glorification in 1903

) is commemorated on 25 February