A Saint with Hemophilia
For Easter evening, consider a modern-day saint who had hemophilia. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, the son of Tsar Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, is considered a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized as a passion bearer (a saint who faces death in a Christ-like manner) by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, along
The Not-So-Royal Disease
It’s March—Bleeding Disorder Awareness Month! For most people, hemophilia is an obscure disorder, associated with royalty. In fact, it is erroneously dubbed “The Royal Disease.” But this is a fallacy. It is true that hemophilia was once linked to the royal families of Europe, thanks to the most famous carrier of the hemophilia gene: Queen
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