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Showing posts with label Meteora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meteora. Show all posts
August 16, 2022

Holy New Venerable Martyrs Nikodemos of Meteora (+ 1551) and Daniel of Meteora

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 Verses "What of you Nikodemos?" He said during his passion, "I am being put to death for the love of the Lord." We are ...
May 16, 2022

Synaxis of All the Holy Venerable Fathers of Meteora

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On the Sunday of the Paralytic, it has been established in Meteora and Kalambaka to commemorate the Synaxis of All the Holy Venerable Father...
December 18, 2021

A Unique Manger Scene in a Cave of Meteora

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Kalambaka has a long tradition with their mangers, as in the past they had set up another special manger in the center of the square with li...
June 23, 2021

History of the Oldest Monastic Settlement of Meteora, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit

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Just above the village of Kastraki rises the very high rock known as Agio Pneuma (Holy Spirit). It takes its name from a small church dedica...
January 23, 2021

Eldress Philothei Agiometeriotissa (+ December 9, 2020)

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    By Archimandrite Demetrios Kavvadias   On Saturday, January 16, 2021, a Holy Hierarchical Forty-Day Memorial Service was held at the Hol...
January 16, 2020

Monastery of the Veneration of the Chains of the Apostle Peter at Meteora

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Alysos, which is Greek for "Chains," is a giant rock that lies north of Kalambaka, southwest of the Holy Trinity Monastery and is...
July 13, 2019

Amazing Footage from Meteora in 1917 and Mount Athos in 1918

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The first two minutes show Meteora in 1917, and the rest shows Mount Athos in 1918 - specifically the hermitages and monasteries, as well a...
May 9, 2019

Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra Has Reposed

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The neptic father Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra was born Alexandros Vapheides in Piraeus, Greece, in October 1934 to pious parents who ha...
January 17, 2019

Saint Anthony Kantakouzenos, Founder of the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora

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St. Anthony of Meteora (Feast Day - January 17) The beginning of monastic life at Meteora on the rock of Agios Stephanos, where the Mona...
April 20, 2018

Saint Joasaph the Former King, Second Founder of the Great Meteoron Monastery (+ 1423)

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St. Joasaph of Meteora (Feast Day - April 20) Verses Athanasios with Joasaph in the heavens, Now dance together have shared in hard wo...

Saint Athanasios, Founder of the Great Meteoron Monastery (+ 1380)

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St. Athanasios of Meteora (Feast Day - April 20) Verses Meteora's stone Athanasios, You worked hard to make a path to the cornerst...
February 13, 2018

Queen Marie of Romania, the First Woman to Enter the Great Meteoron at Meteora

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Queen Marie of Romania (1875-1938) was "one of the world’s most celebrated royals” and ”the Princess Di of her day”, as People magazi...
June 13, 2017

Saint Philotheos of Sklataina, Second Founder of the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora (+ 1550)

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St. Philotheos of Sklataina (Feast Day - June 13) Our Venerable Father Philotheos was born in 1475 in the village of Sklataina, which si...
May 17, 2017

Saints Nektarios and Theophanes, Founders of Barlaam Monastery at Meteora

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Sts. Nektarios and Theophanes of Barlaam (Feast Day - May 17) The Holy Hieromonks Nektarios and Theophanes were brothers, who were born ...
February 10, 2017

The Relics of Saint Haralambos the Wonderworker

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1. The largest portion of the skull of St. Haralambos is found in the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora. We do not have much informatio...
September 24, 2015

The Cave Chapel of Saint Silouan the Athonite in Meteora

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Below the Monastery of Saint Nicholas Anapavsa in Meteora, in a natural cave, can be found the Chapel of Saint Silouan the Athonite, which ...
February 3, 2015

Saint Savvas the Spiritual Father of Ioannina (+ 1505)

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St. Savvas the Spiritual Father (Feast Day - February 3) Saint Savvas was of noble birth and lived in the fifteenth and early sixteenth ...
June 20, 2014

Historic Liturgy at an Isolated Hermitage of Meteora

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A historic Divine Liturgy took place on May 24, 2014 at an isolated hermitage of Meteora that can only be accessed by rock climbing.
April 7, 2014

A Birds-Eye View of the Monasteries of Meteora (video)

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Meteora from TKYSSTD on Vimeo .
August 13, 2013

A Meteor Shower Above Meteora (photo)

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The two bright meteors flashing through this night skyscape from August 7 are part of the ongoing Perseid meteor shower. In the direction i...