In Naples, Rome and Jerusalem there are churches and chapels dedicated to a saint unknown to most of us and whose historical existence lacks actual evidence despite ample devotion among early ...

Today is the Sunday in the Orthodox liturgical year when we commemorate St. Mary of Egypt, an extraordinary ascetical penitent of fifth century Palestine. If you’ve never heard of her, don’t worry — I ...

Today is the Sunday in the Orthodox Church in which we commemorate St. Mary of Egypt. I had no idea who she was until I became Orthodox, though the Catholic Church also recognizes her. Anybody who ...

The monks passed on the life of Saint Mary of Egypt by word of mouth without writing it down. “I however,” says Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem (March 11), “wrote down the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt as ...

Thursday, April 1, is the feast of a little-known saint whose story demonstrates the power of the Church as the home of forgiveness, redemption and mercy. St. Mary of Egypt was a prostitute for 17 ...

Mary of Egypt, a fourth-century saint with a large medieval following, had a thriving and active sex life. But we only find out about Mary’s past from her repudiation of it. She lived in poverty, ...

Head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II inaugurated on Saturday the Church of the Virgin and Saint Mary of Egypt in the new Ahalina 2 Residential Project in Cairo’s El-Salam City, the ...

Born in Egypt, Mary left home around the age of 12 and traveled to the city of Alexandria. There she lived a dissolute life. Mary would often refuse money that was offered to her in exchange for ...