The Romiosini of 1821 and the Great Powers (7 of 11)

Medieval serfs working the land.

...continued from part six.

23. How Did the Russians Receive Their Plan

No one can doubt the amazing success of Tsarist Russia in dissolving Romiosini and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. But this begs the question: how did the Russians receive this plan?

The answer is: unfortunately from the example of the new Greek state, where the Europeans had inaugurated a similar design, which was applied by the Franks from the 9th century for the dissolution of Romiosini in the West.(15) What the Russians did in eastern Romiosini, approximately the same thing had been done by the Franks in western Romiosini.

Saint Zacharias, Pope of Rome (+ 752)

St. Zacharias, Pope of Rome (Feast Day - March 15)

Pope Zacharias was born in 679, a native of the Roman province Magna Graecia, in Southern Italy; specifically he was of Greek parentage from Santa Severina, Calabria, and he was the last pope of the Byzantine Papacy. Most probably he was a deacon of the Roman Church and as such signed the decrees of the Roman synod of 732, and succeeded Pope Gregory III on 5 December 741. He was a man of singular meekness and goodness; and so far from any thought of revenge, that he heaped benefits on those who had persecuted him before his promotion to the pontificate.

Saint Cloud of Paris (+ 560)

St. Clodoald of Paris (Feast Day - September 7)

On the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, in the year 511 his kingdom was divided between his four sons, of whom the second was Chlodomer. Saint Clodoald, better known as Cloud, was born in 520 the son of King Chlodomer of Orleans and his wife Guntheuc. When his father was killed in battle in 524 in Burgundy, he and his brothers were brought up by their grandmother Saint Clotilde (June 3) in Paris. He was one of three brothers, all of whom were targeted for assassination by their uncles, King Clotaire I of Soissons and King Childebert of Paris, to prevent them from succeeding to the Frankish throne. Cloud's brothers, Theodoald and Gunther, were killed by Clotaire when they were ten and nine respectively, but Cloud survived by escaping with the aid of brave men to Provence.

Saints Zabulon and Susanna, Parents of Saint Nina of Georgia

Sts. Zabulon and Susanna (Feast Day - May 20)

According to Holy Tradition, Saint Nina and Saint George the Great Martyr were blood relatives on her father's side, who was from Cappadocia. At the same time as Saint George’s martyrdom, the nobleman Zabulon, the future father of Saint Nina, arrived in Rome from Cappadocia. Zabulon began to serve in the emperor’s army, and before long he was widely recognized as a courageous cavalryman and a fine soldier.

During a battle with the Franks the Lord granted victory to Zabulon — he captured the Frankish king and his suite and delivered them to the Roman emperor. The emperor sentenced the captives to death, but before they were executed they confessed their desire to be baptized into the Christian Faith. Zabulon relayed this to the emperor, and Zabulon himself became their godfather. Then he pleaded with the emperor to have mercy on his godchildren, and the emperor set them free.

The Icon In East and West

By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos

of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

The established feast of Orthodoxy in the beginning of Great Lent, in which the theology of icons and the theology of asceticism are connected, while also partaking in the mysteries of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, shows the exterior brilliance of the Orthodox Church, but especially and above all Her depth, for which "you must be like a swimmer from Delos so that you do not drown".

Below we will highlight four points, in which we will show the place of the Orthodox icon, as well as its difference with other Christian traditions.