The Holy Martyrs Saint Sophia and her Daughters Faith, Hope and Love were born in Italy. Their mother was a pious Christian widow who named her daughters for the three Christian virtues. Faith was twelve, Hope was ten, and Love was nine. Saint Sophia raised them in the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Read more...
Following the Moleben
All welcome. Celebration meal to follow.
This miraculous appearance of the Mother of God occurred in the mid-tenth century in Constantinople, in the Blachernae church where her robe, veil, and part of her belt were preserved after being transferred from Palestine in the fifth century... click to continue reading: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/10/01/102824-the-protection-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-mother-of-god-and-ever