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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
Our Lady of Akita (Japanese: 秋田の聖母マリア) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the Marian apparitions reported in 1973 by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in the remote area of Yuzawadai, an outskirt of Akita, Japan.
Our Lady of La Leche (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de La Leche y Buen Parto; "Our Lady of the Milk and Good Delivery") is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a statue of her breastfeeding the infant Jesus Christ. [1] It is said to be one of the oldest of all Marian devotions. [2]
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.
Divine miracles have been reported and attributed to Our Lady of Bechouat. Thousands of worshippers have visited the sanctuary where they march from the village of Bechouat to the old church where the blue and white statue of the Virgin Mary stands. The statue, a replica of the one at Our Lady of Pontmain [2] in France, was erected a century ...
“Praise be to God – miracles do happen!” That was the opening line to a Sept. 5 Facebook post on the Divine Mercy Parish Facebook page announcing the church might get back a statue of the ...
St Savvas was the clergyman who conducted the funeral service for Saint Nektarios, and was also the one who painted the first icon of the saint. One day St. Savvas asked the abbess not to let anyone disturb him for forty days, during which he remained confined to his cell in which the nuns could hear constant conversation (between the living ...
The statue was declared patroness of the Western Visayas by Pope John Paul II who, in person, canonically crowned this image on February 20, 1981, during his first Apostolic Visit to the Philippines. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] It is thus the only Marian statue in the Philippines personally crowned by the Pontiff (and saint) instead of a proxy legate.