Lives of the Holy Women Martyrs arranged according to the Church Calendar.

These Byzantine biographies of St Daniel the Stylite, St Theodore of Sykeon and St John the Almsgiver help us to enter into the Byzantine ascetic thought world...

In Father Joachim travels to the Jordan river in 1890. There he met a woman who as a youngster was given a theological education.

Her life viewed and treated within the framework of Sacred Scriptures, Holy Tradition, patristics, and other ancient writings, together with the Liturgical and Iconographic traditions of the Holy Orthodox Church.

The lives of the saints encourage one to obey the charge to be imitators of Christ. Provides substantial daily readings for some of the saints and / or commemorations of each day of the stated month.

The lives of the saints encourage one to obey the charge to be imitators of Christ. Provides substantial daily readings for some of the saints and / or commemorations of each day of the stated month.

The lives of the saints encourage one to obey the charge to be imitators of Christ. Provides substantial daily readings for some of the saints and / or commemorations of each day of the stated month.

A life of this ascetic and visionary of the Kiev Caves Lavra.

This diary will strike a chord with all who strive to live a Christian life in a secular world.

In the centuries following the baptism of Russsia in 988 the great northern forests became a new thebaid or Egyptian desert inhabited by countless holy men and women. Illustrated with rare pictures from old Russian books and magazines their story is recounted and the Orthodox monastic tradition is presented as a living way for modern day aspirants seeking to follow in their footsteps.

Seraphim Rose is a well known writer and hieromonk of northern California. He died in 1982.

A translation of the Historia monachorum in Aegypto, giving eye witness accounts of the lives and teaching of the fourth century Desert Fathers. A rich resource both spiritually and academically.

St. Paisy Velichovsky wrote of Elder Basil his Spiritual Father: The fame of his teaching and pious direction toward the path of salvation went out everywhere.

The author, a disciple of the staretz, interprets his life, personality and teaching, showing the spiritual struggles which made Fr. Silouan a true spiritual elder.

The spiritual autobiography of Fr. Sophrony, who in 1959 founded the Monastic Community of St. John the Baptist in Essex, U.K. Covers his thoughts and reflections on many subjects concerned with living the spiritual life.

A new edition of the only complete life of the recently canonised saint, Mother Maria Skobtsova.

The author was the daughter of a wealthy Russian landowner. She met the Elders Nektary and Anatoly during her own search for spiritual truth. They helped to deliver her from occultism and bring her into the Church. This is her vivid accounts of these meetings.

Elder Moses was the founder and first Abbot of the renowned Optina Monastery south of Moscow.

A biography of the great elder of the Optina Monastery.

Bishop Nicolai (Velimirovich) wrote that Holy Men are like clean mirrors in which we see the beauty and power of Jesus Christ. The life of this recently canonised saint is a powerful demonstration of the possibility of living an authentically Christian life in the modern western world and embodies the fruit of the Orthodox ascetical tradition.