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- Wed 10 January 2018 12:38 am
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: Kaleb of Axum
- Replies: 4
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Re: Kaleb of Axum
The OCA appears to venerate him as a saint though every other jurisdiction calls him blessed. You must realize, Justice, that in the USA many of the OCA's original members converted from the Ruthenians and from other Eastern Catholic Churches through the missionary work of Father Alexis Toth, who w...
- Tue 9 January 2018 10:58 pm
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: Old Believers and Old Calendarists
- Replies: 130
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Re: Old Believers and Old Calendarists
Going back to St. Juliana Lazarevskaya -- or Olshanskaya a different version -- I looked up NC Yet's reference, incredulous that she would have been pictured in icons with a lestovka. But it's true ! NCYet, since you are the authority on Old Believers around here, do you know if she is therefore ve...
- Tue 9 January 2018 10:50 pm
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: Kaleb of Axum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1599
Re: Kaleb of Axum
The OCA appears to venerate him as a saint though every other jurisdiction calls him blessed.
- Tue 9 January 2018 10:10 pm
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: Is Gebre Menfes Kidus a saint?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1278
Re: Is Gebre Menfes Kidus a saint?
Bishop_Irineos wrote:I am not aware of any EO jurisdictions which include him on there vestal calendars.
Interesting, I wonder what the reason is?
- Tue 9 January 2018 2:12 pm
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: Kaleb of Axum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1599
Kaleb of Axum
While this may not be the most trustworthy source, Wikipedia claims that the Eastern Orthodox Churches commerce Kaleb of Axum as St. elesbaan just as the Roman Catholics do. Kaleb of Axum was a Miaphysite who didn't embrace the council of Chalcedon. Is this a later innovation to promote ecumenical d...
- Tue 9 January 2018 1:22 am
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: Is Gebre Menfes Kidus a saint?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1278
Is Gebre Menfes Kidus a saint?
I've never heard of him in Eastern Orthodoxy and I've never seen an Eastern Orthodox icon of him. Though he is pre-schism he lived from 3 B.C to 10 B.C
- Mon 8 January 2018 11:33 pm
- Forum: Inquiring into Orthodoxy
- Topic: When did Rome start venerating statues?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11150
Re: When did Rome start venerating statues?
There's a statue of St. George in Greece dating to about the thirteenth century: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qpE5hNwi618/S3svMe03PII/AAAAAAAAEb8/D_wlpjEN2ME/s400/george+statue.jpg Clearly this practice was still in Greece even if it wasn't as popular as in the west. The statue's origins are unknown th...