The icon lamp in the Chapel of Saint James, First Bishop of Jerusalem, at the beginning of Mesonyktikon, the Midnight Office.
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When pilgrims enter the Sinai basilica, they light candles in prayers for those who are living, or in commemoration of those who have gone to their rest. ‘They bee great offerers of Candles’, as the English merchant Richard Chancellor wrote when he visited Moscow in 1553. (The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqves and Discoveries […] |
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