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Showing posts with label Saints of Crete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saints of Crete. Show all posts
November 22, 2022

Holy New Confessor Anthimos, Metropolitan of Athens and Euripus and President of Crete (+ 1371)

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The Frankish Occupation (1204–1489) was a dark and at the same time tragic time for the Church of Greece. After defeating Constantinople in ...
October 7, 2022

The Holy Ninety-Nine Fathers of Crete including Venerable John the Hermit

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  MEMORY OF THE VENERABLE NINETY-NINE FATHERS, who practiced asceticism on the island of Crete including JOHN THE HERMIT Commemorated on Oct...
April 14, 2022

Saint Eumenios Saridakis Resource Page

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St. Eumenios the New (Feast Day - May 23)   Verses Healer of lepers and pestilential diseases, You were seen, Eumenios, as a guide of the fa...
December 24, 2021

The Christmas Eve Miracle of Elder Eumenios Lampakis

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By Dr. Haralambos M. Bousias,   Great Hymnographer of the Church of Alexanria In the Cretan village of Myriokephalos there is a Monastery th...
October 3, 2021

Saint Paul, Bishop of Gortyna

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Saint Paul was Bishop of Gortyna towards the end of the Great Persecution against the Christians and led his flock when the Christians obtai...
September 20, 2021

The Testament of Saint John the Stranger (Ioannes o Xenos)

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Saint John the Stranger (Ioannes o Xenos) was a hermit on the island of Crete who founder a number of monastic establishments there. He repo...
August 27, 2021

An Oasis With a Miraculous Chapel Dedicated to Saint Phanourios Off a Busy Highway in Crete

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  Off the busy national road between Rethymnon and Chania there is a chapel in which during the summer months is visited quite often by pilg...
June 2, 2021

Eldress Galaktia, in the world known as Galatia Kanakakis (+ 2021)

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  By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou On 20 May 2021, a blessed nun reposed, Eldress Galaktia, who lived in the villag...
May 31, 2021

Holy Synod of the Church of Crete Unanimously Agrees to the Official Canonization of Elder Eumenios Saridakis

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In a meeting today, 31 May 2021, of the Holy Synod of the Church of Crete which gathered in Heraklion, all the Bishops unanimously agreed to...
July 14, 2020

Holy Martyr Peter the New

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St. Peter the New (Feast Day - July 14) Verses Without hindrance they advanced divine Peter, Having removed his legs. The Holy Martyr...
May 19, 2020

Holy Hieromartyr Melchizedek, Bishop of Kisamos (+ 1821)

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St. Melchizedek of Kisamos (Feast Day - May 19) Melchizedek Despotakis, originating from Heraklion in Crete, became a monk at a young ag...
April 30, 2020

Commemoration of the Massacre in 1823 at the Cave of Milatos

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On Thomas Sunday, which is the Sunday after Easter, a Memorial Service is held in the Cave of Milatos (also known as Rapas Cave), which is ...
March 31, 2020

Holy Martyr Theophilos of Crete with his Wife and Children

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St. Theophilos of Crete and Those With Him (Feast Day - March 31) All we know about Saint Theophilos of Crete comes to us from Parisian ...
January 22, 2020

Church of Saint Joseph Samakos the Sanctified in Azokeramos, Crete

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The Church of Saint Joseph Samakos the Sanctified in Azokeramos, Crete was built as a monument to the Saint in the place where he was born ...
January 15, 2020

The First Church Dedicated to Saint Gregory Palladas

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Saint Gregory Palladas served as Patriarch of Alexandria for 22 years until 20 January 1710, when he retired due to illness to the Monaster...
August 8, 2019

The Turkish Persecutor of Christians Who Was Healed by Saint Myron of Crete in 1840

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In the year 1840 there lived on the island of Crete in the village of Archanes which was in the province of Temenos a certain Turk named Hu...
June 25, 2019

Saint Methodios of Nivritos

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Verses You put to shame all the methods of the enemy, With the perfect methods of asceticism Father. On the twenty-fifth Methodios depar...
June 9, 2018

Church of the Holy Five Canonical Virgins in Crete

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The Church of the Holy Five Canonical Virgins in ancient Lappa, now Argyroupoli of Rethymno, is one of the most important shrines of wester...
May 14, 2018

Holy New Martyr Mark of Crete, Who Was Martyred in Smyrna (+ 1643)

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St. Mark the New Martyr of Crete (Feast Day - May 14) Verses When Mark of Crete was led to the sword, He looked towards the sword ste...
March 17, 2018

Holy Venerable Martyr Paul of Crete (+ 764)

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St. Paul of Crete (Feast Day - March 17) Verses Paul was inflamed with zeal for the icons, For these he was burnt in the flame of the...