Summer Saints Resource List

This month, we wanted to share a list of some summer saints who mean a lot to us, along with resources to be a companion to you or your family as we remember and venerate their lives. We've listed them here in chronological order for you to refer to in the coming weeks:

St. Marina of Antioch

• New Calendar: July 17
• Old Calendar: July 30
• Saint Margaret of Antioch: Life, Legend and Posterity 
• OCA Veneration 
• Coptic Veneration

St. Julia of Carthage

• Also known as St. Julia of Corsica
• New Calendar: July 16
• Old Calendar: July 29
• Saint Julie of Carthage:A Life of Faith and Martyrdom
• Veneration 

St. Elizabeth the New Martyr

• New Calendar: July 18
• Old Calendar: July 31
• Book: Saint Elisabeth the New Martyr,  Ludmila Koehler (New York: The Orthodox Palestine Society, USA, 1988)
• Veneration: 

Troparion, Tone 4:

Causing meekness, humility and love to dwell in thy soul,

Thou didst earnestly serve the suffering,

O holy passion-bearer Princess Elizabeth;

Wherefore, with faith thou didst endure sufferings and death for Christ, with the martyr Barbara.

With her pray for all who honor you with love.

Kontakion, Tone 4:

Taking up the Cross of Christ,

Thou didst pass from royal glory to the glory of heaven,

Praying for thine enemies, O holy martyr Princess Elizabeth;

And with the martyr Barbara thou didst find everlasting joy.

Therefore, pray ye in behalf of our souls.

St. Macrina the Younger

• New Calendar: July 19
• Old Calendar: August 1
• Life of Macrina 
• Veneration

St. Maria Skobsova / of Paris 

• New Calendar: July 20
• Old Calendar: August 3
• Book: Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Orbis, 2003).
• Article: Types of Religious Lives
• Veneration 

St. Christina the Great Martyr

• New Calendar: July 24
• Old Calendar: August 6
• About St. Christina
• The Incorrupt Relics of St. Christina
• Veneration

What other resources would you add to this list? We'd love to know!