The Orthodox Way

This is a list of all the Cathedral Homilies of St Severus, from the Patrologia Orientalis translation of the edition by James of Edessa. It includes a translation of the…

This Welsh saint was the son of a prince of Armorica, which is Brittany, or Little Britain. Many of the British had fled to Brittany when the Anglo-Saxons invaded, and…

Wales is a land which has rightly been said to have been built on the saints, and almost every other town or village is called Llan-something, which represents the Welsh…

d. 3rd centuryPlaces: St Albans, England. Verulamium Alban was the first Christian to be put to death for his faith in Roman Britain and is therefore the proto-martyr of the…

Among the missionary saints and bishops of the British Isles, St Kentigern stands as one of the most important. During the sixth century, and to the beginning of the seventh…

Excerpt from St Severus against Julian As for the word of philosophical significance which is pronounced by Job the valiant in these terms: “Who in fact would be pure from…

Text XI. – At the same time, there was yet another demonstration in Jerusalem similar to the previous one, which announced in advance the injustice which was going to be…

Text X. The facts which are about to be reported will perhaps seem incredible and stupendous to some, but, if I am telling them, it is because pure, old and…

In the museum at Norton Priory, just outside Runcorn, there is an important and visible reminder of the ancient connections between Britain and Egypt. The monastery houses a collection of…

We must ask what we mean by the word Orthodox. Of course we now that it is made up of the Greek words ortho – having a sense of right,…