Feasts and saints with names like “Gregory Palamas”

Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, was born in the year 1296 in Constantinople. Saint Gregory’s father became a prominent dignitary at the court of Andronicus II Paleologos (1282-1328), but he soon died, and Andronicus himself took part in the raising and education of the…