Orthodox saints female

With these words of St. Justin before us, we might well ask ourselves if Orthodox spiritual life is even possible without the testimony of the Lives of the Saints. The answer to this, I believe, must be "no." True spiritual life begins when we live in Christ and Christ lives in us, right here on this earth. And the Lives of the Saints bear witness to us that the Life of Christ on earth did not end with His Ascension into Heaven, nor with the martyrdom of His Apostles. His Life continues to this day in His Church, and is seen most brilliantly in His Saints. And we, too, in our own spiritual lives, are to enter into that continuing, never-ending Life.

—The Place of Lives of Saints in the Spiritual Life, by Hieromonk Damascene.

"All the Saints," wrote St. John of Kronstadt, "are our older brothers in the one House of the Heavenly Father. Having departed from earth to heaven, they are always with us in Go Greek orthodox saints list.