Every year we hear this Gospel reading on the first Sunday after Pentecost named the Sunday of …
What is All Saints
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Every church is dedicated either to a feast day or a saint that becomes the …
What is patron saint
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We know that they are saints because they have this around their heads in the icons.
What is halo or nimbus
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This is the city where St. Stephen was stoned to death because of his faith.
What is Jerusalem
100
Holiness is achieved only through the Grace on God in the Holy Spirit. There are many unknown saints, our Church gave this name to this Sunday to honor all of them.
What is Sunday of All Saints
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We are called to witness Christ in this life. If we deny Him in this life He promised to … us before the Father.
What is deny
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Young girls that witnessed their love and faith for the Lord and were killed because of that.
What is virgin martyrs
200
They wear vestments decorated with byzantine crosses.
What is hiero-martyrs (priest martyrs) and/or hierarchs.
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Saint Nectarios is a recent saint of the Church. He is know to help people sick with cancer and he wrote the beautiful song. People go as pilgrims in this island to venerate his relics and to pray to him.
What is Aegina
200
She is the protector patron saint of artillery men and those working dangerous jobs.
What is St. Barbara
300
Our love for Him has to be greater than any love we may have in love. We also have to follow Him taking up our ...
What is cross
300
Sts. Constantine and Helen, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, St. Nina and St. Olga are part of this category because of the influence they had in bringing large groups of people to Christ.
What is Equal-to-the-Apostles
300
This saints hold a cross in one of their hands.
What is martyrs
300
St. Herman (or Germanous) was born in Russia. With sincere love went as a missionary in this American state bringing the Orthodox faith on the American continent and translating the Bible in the Aleut language. He died in 1837.
What is Alaska
300
This writing comes in twelve volumes and contains the synaxaria (the life of the saints) and the hymns dedicated to them.
What is Meneia (from the Greek μήνας - month)
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The Apostles were interested in the rewards they will have for following the Lord. All these will happen in ...
What is the new world
400
Saints do intercede for us when we pray to them but, St. Nicholas and several others received this name-qualification because of what they do.
What is wonderworkers.
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The hair on the head is a symbols of their thoughts and decisions. They did not rebel against God, for that reason they are depicted with ribbons that keep their hair tied up.
What is angels and archangels
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St. Demetrius the Myrrh-Streamer is commemorated on October 26 and he has his relics in this city .
What is Thessaloniki
400
In the Orthodox Church saints are not canonized but rather acknowledged for their life, intercessions and eventually miracles. We use this word when they are recognized as saints.
What is glorified
500
Everyone sacrificing for Christ will receive these in return.
What is a hundredfold and inherit eternal life.
500
They were physicians with the gift of healing and became saints. All their treatments were free of charge.
What is unmercenaries
500
There are three stars on the vestments of Holy Virgin Mary, the Theotokos and this is their meaning.
What is virginity before, during and after the birth of Christ.
500
Like St. Barbara, St. Markella was a young girl but she lived in the 14th Century on this island, while St. Barbara
lived in Heliopolis at the end of the 3rd century.
What is Chios
500
Everyone believing, bonds his/her life to God worship and communion. Such a person in harmony with God is in this process of becoming a saint.