December 21, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Christianity, Eastern Christianity, Eastern Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, icons, icons of saints, medieval saints, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Church, Orthodox icons, orthodoxy, religion, religious icons, religious images, saints, Western Orthodox saints, Western Orthodoxy, Western saints
I just learned of the demise last year of the Milan Synod’s St. Hilarion Monastery in Texas, and of their website, odox.net. This group was not in communion with the Orthodox Church, but the Wayback Machine seems to have stored at least their images of Western Saints icons, which I have always found edifying.
November 29, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Canada, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodoxy, explorers, Fr. Andrew Phillips, Greenland, Irish Orthodox, Middle Ages, Norse, North American Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christian, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, religion, Russian Orthodox, Russian Orthodoxy, Scandinavia, Vikings, Vinland, Western Orthodoxy
Last year I found a brief discussion of how it could’ve gone if Norse Orthodox visitors and settlers here from the 10th to 15th centuries, and rumored Irish Orthodox monk-visitors, had evangelized (more?). A few years ago I saw this somewhat more detailed discussion of the history from Fr. Andrew Phillips of the Russian Orthodox Church [...]
July 4, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Artois, Blangy, Blangy-sur-Ternoise, Christianity, coincidences, Dark Ages, Eastern Orthodoxy, English Orthodox saints, English saints, France, Frankish, Franks, French Orthodox saints, French saints, hurricanes, Middle Ages, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, Pas de Calais, religion, saints, tropical cyclones, Tropical Storm Bertha, tropical storms, weather, Western Orthodox saints, Western Orthodoxy, Western saints
Weird coincidence: The other day my aunt wrote her nephews and nieces that she’d read about St. Bertha of Blangy-sur-Ternoise, Artois, France, a 7th-8th-century Anglo-Saxon (Kentish) and Frankish princess, wife, mother, widow, and abbess, because her mother’s, my paternal grandmother’s, name was Bertha Rider Filon (God be good to her).* Today happens to be St. Bertha’s [...]
March 15, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: art, basilicas, Blessed Mother, cathedrals, Catholicism, Christianity, deification, Divine Light, Divinization, Eastern Orthodoxy, glorification, iconoclasm, iconography, icons, images, Italy, Mary, miracles, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, painting, religion, Roman Catholicism, Rome, saints, salvation, theology, Theosis, Theotokos, Uncreated Light, Western Orthodoxy
Italy’s former Orthodoxy is attested by the ancient icons and Greek icon-style murals and mosaics to be found in many old Latin churches there to this day. Rome itself has at least one icon said to have been painted by St. Luke the Evangelist (like a few in Orthodox hands, or rather, graced to Orthodox [...]
6th-century hermitess and foster-mother of saints,* Ita (Ida) of Killeedy in Southwest Ireland, was born into the ruling clan of the regional kingdom of Decies in Munster Province (Irish Deise Mumhan), which at its height covered roughly County Waterford and much surrounding territory. (Killeedy is actually in County Limerick, well northwest of The Decies.)
Weirder yet, [...]
Yes, Rome, not Russia. I don’t know why her name is exclusively associated with the latter today!
A famous 5th-century French Orthodox nun.
