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We beseech Saint Nektarios to forgive both us, unworthy as we are, and our predecessors, our brothers of the Throne of Alexandria, for opposition to the Saint and for all which, due to human weakness or error, our Holy Father, Bishop of Pentapolis, Saint Nektarios, suffered. PETROS VII, By the Grace of God
Holy Archangel Michael and All Angels Skete is the collective term for three monastic communities in Weatherby, Missouri: Holy Archangel Michael and All Angels Skete; St. Xenia Sisterhood (1997); and Protection of the Virgin Mary. Superiors: Hieromonk Alexii; Abbess Brigid; and Abbess Sergia respectively.
Marian apparitions are reported supernatural appearances by Mary, the mother of Jesus.Below is a list of alleged events concerning notable Marian apparitions, which have either been approved by a major Christian church, or which retain a significant following despite the absence of official approval or despite an official determination of inauthenticity.
The eighteen apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to Saint Bernadette Soubirous were approved by Pope Pius XII. A few years later, from February 11 to July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary was pleased, as a new favor, to manifest herself in the territory of the Pyrenees to a pious and pure child of a poor, hardworking, Christian family.
The best known of these, and the most commonly credited in the West, was Saint Luke, who was long believed to have had the Virgin Mary sit for her portrait, but in the East a number of other figures were believed by many to have created images, including narrative ones. Saint Peter was said to have "illustrated his own account of the ...
Panagia Portaitissa, the Montreal replica. According to the Orthodox Church's sacred tradition, the icon was at one time in the possession of a widow in Nicaea.Not wanting the icon to be seized and destroyed by the iconoclasts, she spent all night in prayer and then cast the icon into the Mediterranean Sea.
Man of God is based on the life of Saint Nectarios of Aegina, Greece. The film depicts his work among the public and within the church and also his conflicts with his superiors and the religious establishment. The film does not cover his childhood and Nektarios is already serving as a Metropolitan bishop in Egypt in the opening of the film. [6]
Myrrhbearers on Christ's Grave, c. 1235 AD, Mileševa monastery in Serbia. Eastern Orthodox icon of the Myrrhbearing Women at the Tomb of Christ (Kizhi, Russia, 18th century). Icon of Mary Magdalene as a Myrrhbearer. Hagiography, fresco, of Saint Salome the Myrrhbearer in Greek Orthodox Church.