The Orthodox Church celebrates the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The holiday celebrates the miraculous ... out against the nestinari (fire dancers), prohibiting them from using icons during their ...

the cross must be seen in the light of the liberating mission of Jesus Christ' The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is celebrated every September 14. It commemorates the discovery of the ...

Russian icon of Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (icon from Yaroslavl by Gury Nikitin, 1680. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). On September 14, the church celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the ...

The Feast of the Cross has brought Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac Christians together from different churches throughout Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Hundreds of Christians flocked to Saint John the ...

the Coptic Christians of Egypt, and the Catholics in Myanmar. They might explain how the Cross offers a model of reconciliation amid conflict, an icon of Christ’s generosity in response to ...

The collection included items such as the jeweled cross of Pope Sergius, relics belonging to St. Praxedes and St. Agnes, as well as the Uronica icon ... The relics of 21 Coptic martyrs killed ...

Julius Caesar was dead for nearly 400 years when Constantine the Great, who tradition says saw a flaming cross in the sky and then converted ... faith — of Byzantium alive in later Ethiopian and ...

A floor mosaic in a villa near Carthage depicting preparations for a feast, late second ... a gilded Byzantine icon of the contorted Christ, dead on the cross between two grieving mourners ...

The second-century Tunisian floor mosaic, predating the Byzantine era, depicts men carrying items to a feast, each wearing ... The Egyptian textile marks a cross-cultural and cross-temporal ...

NNA - The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Lebanon celebrated the Feast of the Cross on September 14 ... accompanied by the basilica choir of the miraculous icon, before the Cross was lit above the ...

The icon of the Feast of the Precious Cross tells the story of the finding of the Cross and of its Exaltation. Public Domain. Greece and Christians throughout the world mark the Feast of the Universal ...

14, in solemn observance of the Feast of the Triumph of the Holy Cross, the universal symbol of the Christian ... white-space: nowrap; } .subscribe-icon {background-color: #2E3192;color: ...