On the feast of Saint Catherine at the Sinai dependency in Athens, the icon on the iconostasion is framed with beautiful and fragrant roses and other flowers.
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Icon lamps in front of the iconostasion are lit on Sundays and feast days. The first column on the left in the Sinai basilica has a menologion icon depicting all the saints whose feast days fall in October. On the wall behind is an icon of the holy Apostle Paul. On Friday, October 18/31, Archbishop Symeon was formally enthroned as Archbishop of Sinai, Faran, and Raithou, at Saint Catherine’s Monastery. Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem was present, and presented Archbishop Symeon with the episcopal staff of authority. Also present from Jerusalem were Metropolitan Hesychios of Capitolia, Archimandrite Ieronymos, Secretary of the Holy Synod, Archimandrite Christodoulos, […] |
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