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Eastern Orthodox Church: Hagiography

The body of modern churches, including (among others) the Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the church of the Byzantine Empire, adheres to the Byzantine rite, and acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople.

Individual Saints

A Spiritual Portrait of St. John of Kronstadt
Archbishop John,Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco
Fr. Seraphim Rose
Pomona College Magazine
Spring 2001, Volume 37, No. 2
Life of St. Antony
from Medieval Sourcebook
Life of St. Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn
Nil Sorsky - Complete Writings
Google Books
Righteous Elder Joseph The Betrothed,
St. Joseph in Eastern Orthodox teaching
St. Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre
St. Cyril and Methodius: Teachers of the Slavs
St. Herman of Alaska
St. Seraphim of Sarov's Conversation With Nicholas Motovilov
The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt
Theodore of Studium: Reform Rules [d.826]
from Medieval Sourcebook

Collections and Information

Calendar of Saints: Lives of the Saints by Month
Canonizaton in the Orthodox Church
This article originally appeared in the commemorative book titled Canonization of Saint Herman of Alaska (August 9, 1970 - Kodiak, AK).
Foolishness For Christ
Glorification of the Saints in the Orthodox Church
This article was written by Fr. Joseph Frawley, a member of the Orthodox Church in America’s Canonization Commission.
Lives of Commemorated Saints
Lives of the Saints
George Bebis, Ph.D.
Holy Cross School of Theology
North American Orthodox Saints
Orthodox Saints
from the Orthodox Church in America
Selected Lives of Orthodox Saints
St. Pachomius Library
Synaxarion