On the morning of the 24th, Feast Day of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg, Aidan Patrick Strand was born to us. Ironically, just before we discovered that my wife was expecting, an icon of St. Xenia was given to us.
He is a healthy and happy baby who smiles often and tries constantly to hold his head up. We look forward to having him baptized in the church and wait in anticipation for his first taste of the Holy Eucharist. Baptized and Chrismated on the Feast Day of St. Gregory the Theologian!
Since we just covered St. Xenia, let us look to St. Aidan and discover this wonderful Irish monk-made-Bishop of the Northumbrian North. His life is recorded here. St. Aidan is a wonderful example of how Orthodox Christianity brings the teachings of Christ to people in their own way with love and patience. A wonderful miracle accounted in the Hagiography written by the Venerable Bede, is that Aidan breathed his last breath, leaning against a buttress beam of the church. This very beam survived two consequent burnings of the church and at the third, the beam was taken inside where many people reported miracles of healing from its veneration.
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