holidays

Christian feast day: Christopher (Eastern Orthodox Church)

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Christopher (Eastern Orthodox Church) from May 9, null

Saint Christopher

Christian saint

Saint Christopher is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius, or alternatively under the emperor Maximinus Daia. Churches and monasteries were named after him by the…
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Eastern Orthodox Church

Second-largest Christian church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It…
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