εκ του νέου βιβλίου ο Άγιος Παΐσιος ο Αγιορείτης . Εντύπωση έκανε στους Κονιτσιώτες και η επικοινωνία που είχε ο «Καλόγερος» με τα ζώα. Μία Κυριακή, μετά την Θεία Λειτουργία, ο Πατήρ Παΐσιος είχε αποσυρθεί στο κελλί του, όταν ακούσθηκαν τρομαγμένες φωνές. Βγήκε έξω, και τι να δει; Μία μεγάλη αρκούδα είχε μπει στο Μοναστήρι από την πύλη. Την πλησίασε και της είπε: «Τώρα πρέπει να φύγεις, επειδή οι άνθρωποι φοβούνται. Αύριο να έρθεις, όχι όμως από εδώ, αλλά από το κάτω μέρος». Η αρκούδα…

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Hagios Demetrios is known as the largest church in all of Greece, and while this interior doesn't look as large as other European churches, the entire building and grounds are a true showing of historic periods coming and overlapping one another. You'll find ancient ruins with Christian worship,...

holy relic of saint Athanasious the athonite in big lavra monastery in mount athos,Makedonia,Greece

Photo essay in memory of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco.

The reliquary of St Andrew - St Andrew Skete in Athos Greece

Translation of the Most Honorable Hand of the Holy Forerunner to Constantinople (Feast Day - January 7); The right hand of St. John the Baptist in Dionysiou Monastery is pictured above. The body of Saint John the Baptist was buried in the Samaritan city of Sebaste. The holy Evangelist Luke, who went preaching Christ in various cities and towns, came to Sebaste, where they gave him the right hand of the holy Prophet John, the very hand with which he had baptized the Savior. The Evangelist…

Photograph of St. Savvas (Sabbas) the New of Kalymnos (taken from: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Image:St-Savas-the-New.jpg) + "[St. Savvas'] feast day is celebrated twice annually: December 5 and the 5th Sunday of Great Lent. St. Savvas the New is the patron saint of the Greek Island of Kalymnos, where he lived during the last twenty years of his life as the priest and spiritual father of the nuns of the Convent of All Saints. He was a great ascetic, confessor, iconographer and miracle-worker. He…

Photograph of St. Savvas (Sabbas) the New of Kalymnos (taken from: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Image:St-Savas-the-New.jpg) + "[St. Savvas'] feast day is celebrated twice annually: December 5 and the 5th Sunday of Great Lent. St. Savvas the New is the patron saint of the Greek Island of Kalymnos, where he lived during the last twenty years of his life as the priest and spiritual father of the nuns of the Convent of All Saints. He was a great ascetic, confessor, iconographer and miracle-worker. He…

St. Anysia, at the Church of Agios Dimitrios, Thessaloniki: Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysia resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his sword.

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St. Dionysios

The following story was told by the cardiologist of Elder Porphyrios, Dr. George Papazahos, when he visited the Elder in his cell one Bright Tuesday following Pascha. I went to see him as a doctor. After the cardiological examination and the usual cardiogram, he asked that I not leave. I sat on the stool near his bed. His face was shining with joy. He asked me: "Do you know the hymn which says, 'Let us celebrate the death of death...?'" "Yes Elder, I know it." "Say it." I began to say it…