They died for Christ at the age of innocence. Although none of these infants had been baptized in water, they were all baptized, in the eyes of the Church, in the blood of their martyrdom.
He was the tenth of the minor prophets of the Old Testament. He prophecised in the latter half of the sixth century BC, soon after the return of the Jews from captivity in Babylon. Through him, God spoke to his people to reassure them.
They gave help to all who asked, rich and poor, and even animals. By healing in the name of Christ, they worked innumerable miracles.
Saint Ludmila illumined the people of Czechia with the light of God’s truth. Her grandson Vyacheslav brought his people to Christ, but as a descendant of the Serbian princess, she lived a dramatic life.
He is remembered as one of the few heads of the Russian Church who openly opposed the Tsar for his treatment of dissent and the lawlessness of the Oprichnina rule.
The cross-cutting themes of his writings were spiritual life and acquiring experiential knowledge of God through incessant prayer. He left a rich legacy of works that expressed these complex ideas in plain language
