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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Greek History  /  Ancient Greece  -  Latest posts Hellinism  /  Faith  /  Worship in Ancient Greece  -  Latest posts Mythology  /  Greek Mythology  -  Lates posts Head of titan Anytus, from the temple of Despoina at Lykosoura in Arkadia. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Anytus was one of the Titans of Greek mythology. He was the nurturer of Despoina, daughter of Demeter. According to Pausanias, Anytus is mentioned as a Titan and was honored with a statue in the sanctuary dedicated to Despoina near the Arcadian hill in Lycosura. Head of titan Anytus, from the temple of Despoina at Lykosoura in Arkadia. National Archaeological Museum, Athens In Arcadia, during the time of Pausanias, Anytus and Despoina were depicted with statues in a temple near Acacesium. This temple was located in Lycosura, a city where the worship of Anytus was especially significant. There stood the Temple of Despoina, dedicated to t...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Greek History  /  Ancient Greece  -  Latest posts Hellinism  /  Faith  /  Worship in Ancient Greece  -  Latest posts Mythology  /  Greek Mythology  -  Lates posts In Greek mythology, Coeus (Κοῖος or Κῶιος), also known as Polus, was one of the Titans, that is, one of the three groups of children born from Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). Spouse: Titaness Phoebe Parents: Uranus and Gaia Siblings: Titans: Oceanus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Theia (or Euryphaessa), and Themis Hecatoncheires: Briareus (or Aigaion), Cottus, and Gyges Cyclopes: Arges, Brontes, and Steropes Other siblings: Giants, Meliae Nymphs, and the Erinyes (Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone) Half-siblings: Aphrodite, Typhon, Python, and Uranus (according to Hesiod) Children: Asteria and Leto Roman mythology: Polus Mythology Coeus was a relatively obscure figure and, like most Titans, did not ...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Saint Prokopios of Iconium, born Prokopios Lazaridis, was a prominent spiritual and ecclesiastical figure of the late 19th and early 20th century, an important hierarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and a Martyr of the Faith, as he died under wretched conditions of exile imposed by the Turkish authorities in 1923. He is considered a Neo-Martyr of Asia Minor, and his memory is honored on April 20, the day of his repose, and also on the Sunday before the Elevation of the Holy Cross, together with the other Asia Minor Neo-Martyrs. Early Life – Origins and Education He was born in 1859 in Cappadocia, a region with a long Christian history. He came from a wealthy and pious Greek family that raised him with deep religious ethos and a strong Greek Orthodox identity. From an early age, he showed a strong inclination toward learning and spiritual life. He studied at the Theological School of Halki, the most important seminary of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He distin...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Γελάς γέλωτα τον μακάριον μάκαρ, Tμηθείς κεφαλήν ω Γελάσι’ ευθύφρον. Υπάρχει μεγάλη σύγχυση όσον αφορά τον Άγιο Γελάσιο. Ψάχνοντας σε διάφορα ενημερωτικά sites που αφορούν την εκκλησία βλέπουμε να παρουσιάζουν τον ' Άγιος Γελάσιο ως τον  Άγιος Γελάσιο τον μίμο ο ο οποίος εορτάζει στις 27 Φεβρουαρίου, ενώ η σύγχυση επεκτείνετε.  Ο Άγιος Γελάσιος ο μίμος ήταν μίμος (ηθοποιός) στο επάγγελμα. Όταν διατάχθηκε να εμπαίξει το βάπτισμα των Χριστιανών, ως ο από μίμων Πορφύριος (τιμάται 4 Νοεμβρίου), βαπτίσθηκε και τελειώθηκε διά ξίφους. Ο Άγιος αυτός, όταν άρχισε ο διωγμός κατά των χριστιανών, μοίρασε όλα του τα υπάρχοντα στους φτωχούς, φόρεσε λευκό ρούχο και πήγαινε στους Μάρτυρες του Χριστού. Βλέποντας τα φρικτά τους βασανιστήρια, φιλούσε τις πληγές τους, ζητούσε τις ευχές τους και τους παρακινούσε να σταθούν ανδρείοι στο μαρτύριο. Οπότε τον συνέλαβαν οι ειδωλολάτρες και τον οδήγησαν στον άρχοντα. Εκεί ομολόγησε με θάρρος τον Χριστό και κήρυξε την πλάνη των ειδώλων. Στ...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Ἱλαρὸς ὢν πνεύματι σὺ Ἱλαρίων, Ἱλαρὸς ἐν σώματι ἦς καὶ καρδίᾳ. Βῆ δ' ἐς ὄλυμπον Ἱλαρίωνος κέαρ ἁγνὸν ἐν ἕκτῃ. Saint Hilarion was born in 775 AD. and came from Cappadocia. His parents, Petros who was a supplier of bread to the palaces and Theodosia, were pious and virtuous people and nurtured their young son with the threads of the Orthodox faith. When he came of age, desiring the path of virtue and exercise, he went to the monastery of Xeronesia, in Constantinople, where he devoted himself soul and body to exercise, strict fasting, silence and the study of the Holy Scriptures. Later he went to the Monastery of Dalmatia, where he became a great man. He remained there for a decade as a gardener and quickly became an example of exercise, humility and magnanimity for all the brothers, who all voted for the abbot of the Monastery. When the storm of iconoclasm broke out, the emperor Leo the Armenian, with the impious patriarch Theodotus the Melissan, tried, unsuccessfully, to be...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Μᾶρκον ἔχεις καύχημα Χίος μέγα, ἠδέ τε σεπτόν· Λαμπρὰν τεύξαντα, αἵματι Μαρτυρίου, Οὔνεκα Κύριον αἴνει ὄλβια, ὅς τά σοι δῶκε. Saint Mark was born in Smyrna. His father was from Thessaloniki and his name was Hatzi Konstantis, and his mother was from Smyrna and her name was Maria. He himself married in the year 1788 AD. But he got involved in Ephesus with another Christian woman and one day you were arrested on your own. The saint and his mistress denied their faith before the judge. Markos, quickly feeling remorse for his adultery, went with tears and confessed to a spiritual one, who made it easier for them to leave for Smyrna. From there, after boarding a ship bound for Trieste, in 1792 AD, they disembarked in Venice, where they were anointed with Holy Myrrh, received communion and were married. Later, Mark, after wandering in various places, decided to witness for the Christian faith and returned to Chios and from there to Ephesus. In this city he met his spiritual one ...

ENGLISH Ὁ Δωρόθεος, κἂν φραγγέλλωμαι λέγει, Λείπουσι πολλὰ πρὸς τὰ Χριστοῦ μου πάθη. Πέμπτῃ Δωροθέοιο δέμας πληγῇσι δαμάσθη. Saint Dorotheos (255 - 362) was a Christian bishop of Tire and a martyr of the Orthodox church. Not to be confused with the elder of Antioch. He is traditionally credited with the Acts of the Septuagint (which may be the same work as the lost Septuagint), which is mentioned in Luke 10:1. Saint Dorotheos was a scholar not only of the divine scriptures, but also of Greek education. He was barren from birth, whom Diocletian made procurator of Tyre. He flourished in the year 303, when he endured many hardships in the persecutions of Diocletian, and was finally exiled. He returned to his church, after the evil had passed, and exhorted the faithful until the time of Julian and then fled to Odessa. There he was captured by the emperor's lords, tortured to death and martyred at the age of 107. Saint Dorotheos was a shepherd who had "the formation of knowledge an...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Oυκ εμποδών σοι κόσμος ώφθη Σοφία, Προς την τελειότητα αρετής φθάσαι. The Byzantine Temple of God's Wisdom, in Ainos. Thrace Osia Sophia came from Ainos in Thrace and was the daughter of official and wealthy parents. She married and became the mother of six children, who had the sad accident of losing them all. So she found solace in her grief by protecting orphans and widows. He did constant almsgiving, prayers, fasting and everything that relieved his neighbor. At the end of her life she became a Nun and devoted her life to the worship of God. He passed away peacefully at the age of 53. The short Life of Saint Sophia of Ainos is preserved in five codices of the 12th-14th century1 and has been published by H. Delehaye in a critical note of the Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae2. Although the Life of Saint Sophia does not provide chronological indications, it is possible to assume that Saint Sophia lived during the Middle Byzantine era, somewhere between the 9th a...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Ἐκ Βηθανίας τὰς ἀδελφὰς Λαζάρου, Σῴζειν δύνασθαι καὶ νεκρὰς πιστευτέον. Τετάρτῃ Μάρθα ἠδὲ Μαρίη ἔβησαν πόλῳ λαμπρῷ. Mary of Bethany and Martha are persons mentioned in the New Testament and specifically in the Gospels of John and Luke. In the first it is mentioned that together with their brother Lazarus, they lived in the village of Bethania, near Jerusalem. Luke mentions only the two sisters, as residents of a village whose name he does not give. Martha and Mary, together with their brother Lazarus, were for the Lord Jesus Christ the most beloved and holy family of Bethany. The Gospel shows us Mary absorbed in the teaching of Jesus, while Martha, who was an older sister, takes great care of the hospitality table. In the Gospel according to Luke, Jesus Christ visits the house of Mary and her sister Martha in a certain village. Mary, in contrast to Martha, who is only concerned with service, has chosen "the good portion", that is, to sit and listen to Jesus' wor...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Γῆς μητρὸς ἐκστάς, Μητρόφανες παμμάκαρ, Ἐκεῖ μετῆρας, οὗ Πατὴρ πάντων μέγας. Μητροφάνης δὲ τετάρτῃ ἔδυ χθόνα βωτιάνειραν. Saint Mitrophanes was the first bishop of Constantinople (313 - 327 AD); He was the son of Dometius and the nephew of the emperor Probus. When in May 325 AD the First Ecumenical Council took place in Nicaea, Mitrophanes could not attend himself, because he was quite old and sick. However, he sent as his representative the protopresbyter Alexander, a willing and God-fearing man. Also, during the years when Mitrophanis was Archbishop, many large building projects of Vasilefoussa were founded. Among them are the famous churches of Agia Sophia, Agia Irini and Agia Dynameo. Mitrophanis died in 327 AD. (probably at the age of one hundred and seventeen) and left as his successor his worthy protopresbyter Alexander (honored August 30). Because he believed that the salvific work of the Church is promoted even more with the correct episcopal succession, thus respondi...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ  Oύσα φρονουσών του μέρους Iερία, Nυμφώνος ουκ έμεινεν έξω Kυρίου. In the town of Nisibis, on the border with the Persian Empire yet under Roman control, there was a convent of women containing fifty nuns under the direction of the deaconess Bryene. One woman brought up by her and well instructed in the monastic life was Febronia (June 25). Febronia was the daughter of Bryene’s brother, and she was of extremely attractive appearance: her face and features were so beautiful that the eye could never be sated by gazing upon her. For this reason Bryene was twice as strict with her, wanting to protect her from outside temptations. She only ate once every other day, she slept while sitting on a stool, and she spent much time studying Holy Scripture. On Fridays, when all the sisters were gathered in the place of prayer, Bryene used to tell Febronia to read the divine words to them. Because, however, young married women used to come to the place of prayer on Sundays and Fridays to...