Nerses di Lambron (1152/1153-1198)  pastor and ecumenical witness At around this time, the Armenian Church commemorates Nerses of Lambron, archbishop of Tarsus.

Bonaventure (ca. 1217-1274) pastor Today the Catholic and Anglican churches commemorate Bonaventure, a bishop and Doctor of the Church.

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Andrei Rublev (ca. 1360-1427) monk and iconographer Today the Orthodox churches commemorate the monk and iconographer Andrei Rublev.

V International Liturgical Conference BAPTISTERYBose, May 31 - June 2, 2007Monastery of BoseNational Office for the Church's Cultural Heritage of the Italian Bishops' Conference<...

Paul Schneider (1897-1939) Lutheran pastor and martyr In 1939 Paul Schneider, a pastor of the German Evangelical Church, died at the concentration camp of Buchenwald after fourteen months of tortu...

 Dismantle the camp, Take again your road, go back to your daily life: you haven’t come here to get away, but to confirm yourself again in the commitment in favour of men and women with whom y...

Macrina (327-380) nun Today the Eastern and Western churches commemorate Macrina, a monastic of Cappadocia. The elder sister of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Peter of Sebaste

Patristic reading Nobody can express what humility is in words and how it grows within the soul, unless he learns about it through experience Nobody can express what humility is in words and ho...

Elijah (9th cent. BCE) prophet Christians of all traditions commemorate the prophet Elijah. Elijah is the key representative of the Jewish prophetic tradition

Simeon the Fool and his companion John (6th cent.) monks Today the Eastern churches commemorate the Syrian monks Symeon and John.

Patristic reading Humility therefore is the mistress of all virtues, it is the special and splendid gift of the Saviour. who follows the gentle Lord (cf. Mt 11:29) in the virtues of patience and h...

Mary Magdalene Equal to the Apostles An example for those who repent and for those who keep a long and patient vigil because they have been touched by the flame of divine love, Mary Magdalene

Patristic reading If the face of a loved one clearly and completely changes us, and makes us cheerful, gay and carefree If the face of a loved one clearly and completely changes us, and ...

Anthony of Kiev Caves Monastery (983-1073) and Theodosius (d. 1074) his disciple monks Today Christians of the Byzantine-Slavic tradition commemorate Anthony of Kiev Caves Monastery.

James of Zebedee apostle Today the Western churches commemorate the Lord's apostle James of Zebedee. James was one of the first disciples to be called

Guigo I (1083-1136) monk Guigo, the fifth prior of the Grande Chartreuse, died in 1136.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) witness There are Christians who give witness to Christ with their lives, and others who do the same by leaving writings and teachings for posterity. Jo...

Patristic reading He who wishes to speak about Divine love undertakes to speak about God. But it is precarious to expatiate on God, and may even be dangerous for the unwary He who wishes...

Martha, Maria and Lazarus, friends and hosts of the Lord, witnesses Martha, Mary and Lazarus gave the Son of Man, who had nowhere to lay his head, the solace of friendship and a plac...

Abel the Just and other Gentile witnesses to God righteous among the nations  At the dawn of the New Testament era, Jesus and his disciples called Abel, who was neither Jewish nor Christ...

Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) priest In 1556 Ignatius of Loyola, a Catholic priest and founder of the Society of Jesus, died in Rome.

Eusebius of Vercelli (d. 371) pastor and martyr Our community commemorates today Eusebius, pastor and founder of the local Piedmont church. Inspired by the emerging monastic tradition

Frumentius (Abba Salama, 4th cent.) pastor The Church of Ethiopia commemorates the bishop Frumentius on the 26th day of the month of Hamle, which corresponds to July 20 in the Julia...

Patristic reading Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God, and our ears to the voice from heaven that every day calls out this charge Let us get up then, at long last, for ...

Rashi (1040-1105) righteous of Israel In 1105, on the twenty-ninth day of the month of Tammuz according to the Jewish calendar, the great medieval Biblical and Talmudic commentator Rashi died in T...

15th International Ecumenical Conference The Transfigured Christ in the Orthodox Spiritual Tradition Bose, 16 -19 September 2007 Gli ortodossi e il Tabor: in cammino verso l'u...

Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (1786-1859) priest Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney died on this day in 1859 in Ars, France. Born in 1786 in Dardilly, near Lyons, Jean-Marie Vianney had to wait until the a...

XV International Ecumenical Conference The opening lecture by ENZO BIANCHI, prior of Bose, the lecture by Metropolitan KALLISTOS of Diokleia, and conclusions by MICHEL VAN PARYS of Chevetogne ...

Jewish martyrs of Kitzingen (d. 1243) On this day in the year 1243, a group of Jewish citizens of the Bavarian city of Kitzengen were suspected of using human blood to celebrate the Pass...