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Thousands travel miles on foot to venerate miraculous Theotokos icon

• 18 September 2021

Every year on the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, thousands of faithful Orthodox Christians go on pilgrimage to Panagia Antifonitria Church on the slopes of Mt. Kryoneritis in the village of Myriokefala in Crete. Many of…

Services and Sacraments

(Video) Monastic tonsure in the Precista Monastery

• 22 September 2018

Is there anyone who loves God more than the One, whose Birth we celebrate today? But is there someone who has been beloved by God more than she is? What other divine creature is more pure than Her, or equal…