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Miami Lakes (Miami area) Christ the Saviour Cathedral ( Orthodox Church in America ) 25°55′27″N 80°19′30″W / 25.9241178°N 80.3248706°W / 25.9241178; -80.3248706 ( Christ the Saviour Orthodox Cathedral (Miami,
Municipality Cathedral Image Location & References Coral Gables (Miami area) St. George Cathedral (Antiochian Orthodox) 25°44′43″N 80°15′41″W / 25.745164°N 80.261331°W / 25.745164; -80.261331 (St. George Cathedral, Coral Gables, Florida) Jacksonville St. John's Cathedral (Episcopal) 30°19′44″N 81°39′12″W / 30.328772°N 81.653423°W / 30.328772 ...
13th-century Byzantine Eleusa mosaic, Athens. The Eleusa (or Eleousa; Greek: Ἐλεούσα – tenderness or showing mercy) is a type of depiction of the Virgin Mary in icons in which the Christ Child is nestled against her cheek. [1]
The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...
This belief in the Immaculate Conception states that God preserved Mary's body and soul intact and sinless from her first moment of existence, through the merits of Jesus Christ. [13] The Immaculate Conception, often confused with the Annunciation of the Incarnation (Mary's virgin birth of Jesus), was made dogma in the Catholic church by Pope ...
The cathedral was damaged in the Greco-Turkish war of 1897 but restored at the expense of the Tsar of Russia, who also donated the cathedral's bell. By royal decree in October, 1947 the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin (November 21) became the official feast day of Chania.
The Agios Minas Cathedral (Greek: ῾Ιερός Μητροπολιτικός Ναός ῾Αγίου Μηνᾶ) [1] is a Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Heraklion, Greece, serving as the seat of the Archbishop of Crete. Ιt is dedicated to Saint Menas the martyr and wonderworker (285-309 A.D.), who is the patron saint of Heraklion.
In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches, the Third Sunday of Pascha (i.e. the second Sunday after Easter) is called the 'Sunday of the Myrrhbearers'. The Scripture readings appointed for the services on this day emphasize the role of these individuals in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus : Matins Gospel , Divine Liturgy , Epistle ...