Saints
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Relics
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Relics
St. Maximos the Confessor had these two body parts cut off after being convicted of heresy.
Tongue and right hand
This very first icon of the Mother of God is reported to have been painted by this saint.
St. Luke the Evangelist
This saint was the first Gentile convert received into the Church.
Cornelius (Acts 10)
This writer, famous for his Christian Anarchist and Pacifist views, was fiercely hated by St. John of Kronstadt.
Leo Tolstoy
“Acquire the spirit of peace, and thousands around you will be saved.”
St. Seraphim of Sarov.
This Apostle is known in some Christian traditions as the “patron saint of lost causes.”
St. Jude Thaddeus
The lead singer of this English band reached out and touched faith when he converted to Orthodox Christianity before his marriage to a Greek woman in 1999.
Depeche Mode
This person wrote St. Paul’s letter to the Romans
Tertius (Rom 16:22)
This famous Austrian artist and politician was once declared the “personal protector of Mt. Athos.”
Adolf Hitler
"We know where the Church is, but we cannot be sure where it is not.”
Met. Kallistos Ware
This early Christian martyr was invoked against the plague and later become a popular symbol for homosexual desire
St. Sebastian
This Orthodox bishop was a relative of the composer Alexander Scriabin and served in the French Resistance during WWII.
Met. Anthony Bloom
This famous number is equal to the number of Gold talents of king Solomon received in one year of his reign
666 (1 kings 10:14)
This religious group purchased the former building of Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox church in the South Shore neighborhood in 1972, making it one of their places of worship.
The Nation of Islam
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
This 4th century saint lent his name to an electrical weather phenomenon often seen on the masts of ships.
St. Erasmus (Elmo) of Formia
When the founder of this 20th century avant-garde art movement became a pious Catholic later in his life, he revealed that he had named the movement after Dionysius the Areopagite.
Dadaism
This 4th century Greek New Testament manuscript was rediscovered by German Scholar Constantin Von Tischendorf at St. Catherine’s monastery in 1844.
Codex Siniaticus
This ecclesiastical event involved a dead Pope being exhumed and having three fingers of his right hand severed.
The Cadaver Synod
"Keep your mind in hell and despair not"
Christ, to St. Silouan
King Charlemagne claimed that this relic was brought to him by an angel after praying at the Holy Sepulchre.
Holy Prepuce
This Russian director shares a first name with a 15th century saint and iconographer - about whom he made a film released in 1966.
Andrei Tarkovsky
This new testament figure was reprimanded for trying to purchase sacraments
Simon Magus
This event resulted in an entire German city being turned into an Anabaptist commune for under one year.
The Munster Rebellion
“If I ever become a Saint–I will surely be one of 'darkness. ' I will continually be absent from Heaven–to light the light of those in darkness on earth,”