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Christian Orthodoxy The Last Bastion of True Christianity

The Last True Rebellion

This web page is dedicated to the last True form of Christianity: Christian Orthodoxy

Orthodox churches and their founders have their Tradition and founding in the person of Jesus Christ himself. When Jesus walked the earth, he forgave sins, he healed sick people and chided unrepentant sinners and hypocrites. When He joined our Heavenly Father in Heaven, he left us His church and the church fathers and saints to carry His word and He gave them the authority to blot out our sins through the mystery of Confession and be with us through the mystery of Communion.

Orthodox churches have brought the world a wealth of Elders, Saints, Miracles and Teachings which embody the spirit of Christ - the One to whom every knee shall bow and the One to whom all authority in heaven and on earth has been given... Not enough is portrayed in the media about the saints but they are the true heroes to emulate not the fake heroes of Marvel's Avengers or Rap/Pop songs.

Orthodox Christians are not pushy like the evangelicals or imperialist like some fanatic Muslims. They get along with Muslims, other Christians from other denominations and Jews. Orthodox Christians like our teacher Jesus are humble...

Orthodox Christians did not take sides in the Lebanese Civil War. Our Patriarch in Lebanon, patriarch Elias Aude was and is always a voice for reason and forgiveness and brotherly love among all confessors of all faiths. Saint John of Damascus (aka Damascene) was an amazing example of that too. See link to his bio below. It is interesting to note that Saint John Damascene called early Islam an Ishamelite Heresy and he debated the followers of this sect.

Below I list active centers of Orthodox tradition with great monasteries, some names of the great elders of the Faith and miracle working icons as well as links to bios of some of the greatest Orthodox saints.

When i was a kid and entered Orthodox churches, I didn't quite know who many of the people in the icons were and I felt alienated. But now that I have read many of their biographies and was deeply, heartily impressed by their lives, deaths and teachings, my experience entering and worshiping in church has changed...

I hope this web page will be an invitation you will accept to learn more about the most beautiful and precious of all treasures - The Kingdom of Heaven which is within.

The Holy Mount Athos - Greece

Valaam Monastery - The Mounth Athos of the North

Holy Meteora - Greece

Wadi Al Natroun - Egypt

Father Seraphim Rose: "Disneyland is the spiritual Gulag of America"

Martyr Saint Zlata Maglenska from Bulgaria: "My father is Jesus, my mother is the Mother of God and my family are the church saints."

Martyr Saint Panteleimon - The greatest healer of the third century

Saint Onuphrius The Great

Saint Mary of Egypt

Saint Christopher (Xristoforos)

Martyr Saint Xaralampos (Charalampus) - who said to his tormentors (who flayed his skin while he was alive): " Thank you, my brethren, for scraping off the old body and renewing my soul for new and eternal life."

Saint Anthony (Antonios) The Great

Saint Ivan Rilski protector of Miners and Bulgaria

Saint George The Dragon Slayer

Saint Dimitrius

Saint Symeon The Stylite

Saint Barbara

Saint Tekla

Saint Paraskeva (Petka in Bulgaria)

Saint Sava of Serbia

Saint Nicholas of Myra

Saint Hilarion of Palestine

Saint John Damascene