Abel was successful because his offerings worked. His successful sacrifice suggested that he was putting his full heart and effort into the act, contrasting with Cain’s half-hearted attempts.
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The Seventy Apostles are those whom the Lord chose, in addition to the original Twelve Apostles, to go before Him into the cities He would visit (Luke 10:1), and lay down the groundwork and infrastructure for the Early Church.
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The saint helped everyone: for the destitute, she was a benefactress; for the grief-stricken, a comforter; for sinners, a guide to repentance.
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The monks were expelled from their monasteries, which were destroyed, and they were forced to flee their homeland. Saint Theoktistos sheltered these Greek monks in his monastery.
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He wore down his body by wearing chains and a hairshirt, and beneath his monastic cowl he wore an iron cap.
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Both were sentenced to death in the year 298, Theopemptos was beheaded and Theonas was buried alive. They suffered honourably and became citizens of the Kingdom of Christ.
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There were two occasions when the monks and hermits at Sinai and Raithu were murdered by the barbarians.
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The three holy Hierarchs and Fathers of the Church, Saint Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom
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The Apostles of the Seventy of our Lord Jesus Christ are those our Saviour chose in addition to the Twelve and sent forth unto the work of preaching.
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Renowned as one of the most significant rulers in Eastern European history, his reign of 47 years was characterised by a staunch defence of Christian Europe against the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
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Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
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Saint Nicholas (Kasatkin), born in 1836, was a Russian missionary who brought Orthodoxy to Japan. Arriving in 1861, he learned Japanese, translated scriptures, and built a cathedral in Tokyo.
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