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  2. Nectarios of Aegina - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Saint Nectarios of Aegina Site of Saint Nectarios birth house in Silivri, Istanbul, Turkey. Anastasios Kephalas (Greek: Αναστάσιος Κεφαλάς), later Nectarios, was born on 1 October 1846 in Selymbria, to a poor family. [2] His parents, Dimos and Maria Kephalas, were pious Christians but not wealthy. [1] [2]

  3. O Virgin Pure - Wikipedia

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    Notation of melody and chords for the hymn. [1]Agni Parthene (Greek: Ἁγνὴ Παρθένε), rendered "O Virgin Pure" or "O Pure Virgin", is a Greek Marian hymn composed by St. Nectarios of Aegina in the late 19th century, first published in print in his Theotokarion (Θεοτοκάριον, ἤτοι προσευχητάριον μικρόν) in 1905.

  4. Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1821–1924)

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    Monastery of Agios Nectarios, built c. 1904–1910 by the Bishop of Pentapoleos Nektarios; still under construction today, it is one of the largest churches in Greece. 1904–1910 Nektarios of Pentapolis began building the Convent of the Holy Trinity on the island of Aegina, while yet Dean of the Rizarios Hieratical School (until 1908). [99]

  5. Akathist - Wikipedia

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    An Akathist or Acathist Hymn (Greek: Ἀκάθιστος Ὕμνος, "unseated hymn") is a type of hymn usually recited by Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians, dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity.

  6. Theotokion - Wikipedia

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    The longest and most popular devotion involving Theotokia is the Akathist to the Theotokos. ... Theotokarion of Saint Nectarios; ... Theotokarion of Saint Nicodemus ...

  7. Nectarios - Wikipedia

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    Nectarios, Nektarios or Nectarius (Greek: Νεκτάριος) is a Greek male given name encountered in Greece and Cyprus.It means "of nectar". Although its etymology refers to the word νέκταρ (néktar, an ancient Greek word meaning "overcoming death", a honey miraculous beverage of Olympian Gods), [1] the name Nectarios was never used in ancient Greece.

  8. Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia - Wikipedia

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    Sign at Kafsokalyvia directing pilgrims to the hut of Saint Porphyrios. St. Porphyrios was born on February 7, 1906, in the village of Agios Ioannis, which translates to St. John Karystia, in the province of Evia in Greece. His parents, Leonidas and Eleni Bairaktaris, baptized him as Evangelos, and he was the fourth out of five siblings.

  9. Nectarius of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    The Bishops of the West opposed the election result and asked for a common synod of East and West to settle the succession and so the Emperor Theodosius, soon after the close of the second council, summoned the Imperial Bishops to a fresh synod at Constantinople; nearly all of the same bishops who had attended the earlier second council were assembled again in early summer of 382.