According to reports from clergy of Agios Dimitrios Church in Vyronas, southeast of Athens, an icon of the Virgin Mary miraculously begun streaming tears. The tears were said to have appeared on the icon on September 8, the Feast Day of the Nativity of the Theotokos. (According to the new calender) According to Ekklisiaonline, a nun noticed […]
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The United States Catholic bishops have joined the Greek Orthodox Church in proclaiming July 24 a day of “mourning and manifest grief” over Turkey’s decision to recommission the church of Hagia Sophia as a mosque. On Tuesday, the U.S. bishops (USCCB) tweeted out an announcement of the Day of Mourning, embracing an invitation by the Greek Orthodox
During the war, thousands of children from Republic of Srpska, Serbia and other parts of our country lived in Greece, where they were placed with families that provided them with shelter and warmth. The connections that were then established still last. This is a fragment of the story about them. In the winter of 1995,
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By the decision of the State Council of Turkey, and on the initiative of the Turkish authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople became a mosque again after 89 years. Despite numerous appeals from Orthodox countries, Europe and the world not to do so, the Turkish authorities have decided to turn this
Forgotten priceless gifts that the Nemanjićs (Serbian Dynasty) gave to the Italian basilica. King Milutin built a chapel around the saint’s tomb, cast from a mixture of silver and gold. Even after the collapse of the medieval state, Serbs still donated the temple The Catholic Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari, which preserves the saint’s
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Nicholas was the only son of famous and rich parents Teofan and Nona. He was born in the Asia Minor region of Lycia, in the city of Patara around 270. Immediately after his birth in St. Nicholas, as the legend testifies, the future miracle worker could be recognized because during the baptism he could stand
A miracle happened last week in the temple of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Ljubovija. Three icons from the iconostasis released myrrh during the service of the Holy Liturgy, which, in accordance with the prohibitions of gathering, was attended only by the clergy. Icons of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Most Holy Mother of
The Elder Porphyrios once asked a pilgrim visiting him:— Do you know the troparion that begins, “We celebrate the slaying of death …”? — Yes, elder, I know it. — Then say it. —“We celebrate the slaying of death, the destroying of hell, the beginning of another way of life that is eternal. And leaping
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As part of the brilliant victory over the Turks, King Milutin built the monastery of the Holy Archangels in Jerusalem near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher – at the place where the Holy Archangel Michael lowered his sword after the suffering of the inhabitants in the time of Emperor David Many churches and monasteries
In our Orthodox church, the incense is burnt in a metal vessel that hangs on three chains and has a sliding cover that regulates the burning of charcoal. The whole apparatus is called a censer. On the chains are twelve small bells, signifying the Twelve Disciples. The grains of incense are put on burning charcoal
