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Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who adopted Christianity and made it the state religion, [7] she was the first ruler to be baptized. [8] [9] Olga is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church with the epithet "Equal to the Apostles". Her feast day is 11 July. [10]
Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and ...
The Day of Saints Peter and Fevronia since the days of Kievan Rus and until 1917, was broadly celebrated in Russia because it is believed that the Saints Peter and Fevronia are the patrons of marriage and family, as well as the symbols of love and fidelity. On this day it was common to go to church, where the people asked for love and family grace.
In 1547, Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow canonized Peter and Fevronia as a saints in the Monastery of Makaryev and also the holy couple declared as the patron saint of Love and Marriage. [8] After the Communist regime in Russia, the relics were rediscovered after being hidden in a Soviet Anti-religious Museum.
Orthodox Christians do not hold to the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, in which it is taught that Mary was preserved from the ancestral sin that befalls us all as descendants of Adam and Eve, in anticipation of her giving birth to the sinless Christ. The Orthodox believe that Mary, and indeed all mankind, was born ...
The depiction of the Virgin Mary with her hands upraised in prayer ("orans") is of very ancient origin in Christian art.In the mausoleum of St Agnes in Rome is a depiction dating to the 4th century which depicts the Theotokos with hands raised in prayer and the infant Jesus sitting upon her knees.
She is destined to become Sinistra's successor, but does not want to destroy Neverland. She befriends Peter Pan, Wendy and her brother, and the Lost Boys. Rascal: a raccoon who often visits Peter Pan's house and spends a lot of time in Michael's company; Penelope: an infant flower fairy who is unable to fly after her mother died. The other ...
The status of Mary as Theotokos was a topic of theological dispute in the 4th and 5th centuries and was the subject of the decree of the Council of Ephesus of 431 to the effect that, in opposition to those who denied Mary the title Theotokos ("the one who gives birth to God") but called her Christotokos ("the one who gives birth to Christ ...