Paul wrote this letter in 51 AD from Corinth. He and Silas had begun preaching the gospel in Macedonian Thessalonica, but were persecuted by the Jewish leaders. The uproar over their teachings was ...

Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, was born in the year 1296 in Constantinople. St Gregory’s father became a prominent dignitary at the court of Andronicus II Paleologos (1282-1328), ...