Commemorative Year 2024

Profile of a Holy Healer: More is known about the miracles of St. Therapon than about his life

The life of the Cypriot saint celebrated by Orthodox Christians on May 14 is almost unknown, yet his miraculous deeds far exceed the existing biographical records. Many of those who prayed with faith before his relics received healing from God for paralysis, cancer, bleeding, blindness, tuberculosis, and more. Saint Therapon is known as a great…

May 14, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

10 holy healers celebrated in May

We continue the monthly presentation of heavenly physicians while commemorating the Lord’s Resurrection. Ten saintly persons who exhibited humility while bearing their cross and triumphed over human frailties have been selected as saints to whom faithful turn for solace and healing when confronted with adversity. St Matrona the Blind – May 2 Saint Matrona was…

May 8, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

9 holy healers celebrated in March

We continue to feature each month’s holy healers, with nine saints celebrated in March. The lives of some of them are less known to believers in Romania, so this month is a good opportunity to learn about saints who enjoy special reverence in other countries such as the United Kingdom or Greece. Saint David of…

Mar 12, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

8 holy healers celebrated in February

This year is an excellent opportunity to dwell on the lives of saints who received the gift of healing from God. If we got acquainted with eight holy healers in January, February concentrates many of them from its very first days. We have chosen to present 8 of the most evident healers with saintly lives…

Feb 14, 2024Raluca-Emanuela Ene

Patriarch Daniel’s message for World Day of the Sick

On February 11, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message in observance of World Day of the Sick, highlighting that health is a divine blessing and a gift from God. The message comes in the context of 2024, designated by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church as a Solemn Year of pastoral care…

Feb 12, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

8 holy healers celebrated in January

All the saints in the calendar of the Orthodox Church are models and intercessors to God for Christians and help them find solutions to the problems they encounter. Certain saints stand out for their help in healing physical and spiritual illnesses. In 2024, a year designated by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church…

Jan 11, 2024basilica.ro

60 years since St Nikephoros the Leper’s blessed repose. How he was included in the Romanian Church’s calendar

Thursday, January 4, 2024, marks the 60th anniversary of the blessed repose of Saint Nikephoros the Leper, a holy healer and miracle worker of our times. The Venerable Nikephoros was included in the calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church by the resolution of the Holy Synod of July 21, 2021, when the texts of the…

Jan 4, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Proclamation Act for Romanian Patriarchate’s 2024 Solemn and Commemorative Year: full text

The Romanian Patriarchate designated 2024 as the Commemorative Year of all the holy unmercenary healers and the Solemn Year of the Pastoral Care of the Sick. The Patriarch of Romania presided over the proclamation ceremony at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, following the solemn Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great on New Year’s Day.…

Jan 4, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate: 2024 will be dedicated to the pastoral care of the sick and to all holy healers

The Romanian Patriarchate will proclaim 2024 as a Solemn Year of the pastoral care of the sick and a Commemorative Year of all the holy unmercenary healers. The selection of these themes is motivated by the need to increase concern for those enduring spiritual and physical suffering, according to a message from Patriarch Daniel predating…

Dec 20, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu