Icon lamps hanging before the icon depicting all of the saints whose feast days fall in the month of September.
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On Sunday, October 6/19, 2025, Hegoumenos Symeon of Sinai was consecrated Archbishop of Sinai, Pharan, and Raitho, by Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Many bishops and priests were present, to show their respect and support for the newly consecrated Archbishop. He made his Confession of Faith, and […] A small Sinai icon attributed to the fourteenth or fifteenth century depicts the All-holy Theotokos and the Ark of the Tabernacle. In the eighth century, Saint John of Damascus gave a homily on the Nativity of the All-holy Theotokos in which he said, Summit more holy than Sinai, which is covered not by […] The icon of the Holy Prophet Moses on the southwest pier in the Church of Saint Catherine, the Sinai metochion in Athens. He holds the two stone Tablets of the Law, surmounted by the golden pot that had manna, and an icon of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. Her hands are extended […] The Church of Panagia Kapnikarea dates to the eleventh century. It is one of the oldest churches in Athens. Photios Kontoglou painted the Theotokos Platytera in the apse in 1942, and completed the remaining icons on the walls in the early 1950s. The icon of Saint Catherine is on the east face of the […] |
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