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Virgin Mary Holy Belt

	The Holy Belt of Theotokos is the only heirloom that is preserved from its terrestrial life and a part of it is kept in the Vatopedi Monastery. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary herself made the Belt of camel hair. After her Metamorphosis and the delivery of the Belt to Apostle Thomas, two poor pious women from Jerusalem undertook the responsibility of its preservation. This continued from generation to generation with gentle virgins coming from this...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Devotional lamp, candle, incense, What is their meaning and their symbolism? ]]></title>
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	The candle
	The word candle comes from the Latin word candela = candle. In the Christian Church, the candle is put in front of the sacred icon. The one located in front of the Crucified , in the sanctuary, is always kept alight and that is why it is called the&nbsp; “ vigilant” candle. A candle is also put in the house’s reredos and according to the tradition it is lighted every day. It is a habit that maintains its deep Christian symbolism with the Light of Christ which enlightens every man...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[ORTHODOX FASTING]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Fasting is an essential aspect of practicing the Orthodox life. You cannot be Orthodox and not fast. Unfortunately, many in the Church today do not participate in this grace-bestowing and life-giving ascetic practice. They do this to the loss of their own spiritual and bodily health.
The Holy Apostle commands us saying "Let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk becomingly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 03:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Virgin Mary Triherousa - Holy Monastery Hilandar]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This is the icon which St John of Damascus had recourse and prayed, with his just complaint, holding his severed right hand, with which he had written in favour of the holy icons and which had been cut off by the malice of the Eikonomachi. The Theotokos wrought the miracle of re-attaching the dead hand of her servant and bringing it to life again, while he dedicated to her a silver votive offering in the shape of a hand, which is placed in such a way on the icon that it appears that she has a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 03:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Theotokos Ktitorisa or Vimatarisa - Holy m. Vatopedi ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[When on one occasion the Arabs raided the Monastery, the deacon-Monk and vematares (the monk in charge of the sanctuary – vema – and, consequently, responsible fro the sacred relics and other treasures kept there) managed to hide in the shaft below the altar (an ancient sacrarium) a priceless icon of the Theotokos and a cross, placing before them a burning candle. The Monastery was looted and the monks taken prisoners to Crete. After 70 years, the deacon-monk, who was still alive, was released,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 03:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Virgin Mary Portaitisa - Holy Monastery Iviron]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The most famous and most revered miraculus icon of the Theotokos which the Holy Mountain possesse was, in the 9th century in the reign of Theophilus the Eikonomachos (Iconoclast), the personal property of a devout widow from Nicaea in Asia Minor, who kept it and honoured it in her private chapel. The Emperor\'s men who got to hear of this decided not to carry out immediately the order about icons, but to start by trying to blackmail its rich owner. In the time which they gave her to collect the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Theotokos Axion Esti ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This miracle-working icon, which is today kept on the synthronon of the church of the Protaton in Karyes, was in the late 10th century in a kelli near Karyes which today bears the same name of “Axion Estin” because of the following miracle: while the Elder of the kelli was absent at a vigil in the Protaton, his hypotaktikos happened to be providing hospitality to some passing monk, unknown to him, with whom he was signing the service of Sunday Matins. When they came to sign the ninth ode of the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dochiariou Holy Monastery]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Docheiariou is the first monastery on the coast to which one comes when travelling by sea from Ouranoupoli to Dafni. The Blessed Euthymius, a companion in asceticism of St Athanasius the Athonite and docheiares (manciple) of the Megiste Lavra Monastery, is reputed to have been its founder. In all probability, Euthymius founded a small monastery dedicated to St Nicholas near the port of Dafni in the second half of the 10th century, but in the early 11th century pirate raids...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou stands on the eastern shore of the Athos peninsula, near the Monastery of Chilandari, its foundations washed by the waters of the Strymonic Gulf. Round about, ruins and remains from other periods of history, from Roman times to those of the first hermits who lived on Athos, are evidence of the historical importance of the site. The Monastery was founded in the 10th or 11th century, a time when freedom from foreign invaders made it safe to build a monastery so...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery of Hilandar]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Chilandari stands on the north-eastern side of Athos. Some maintain that its name comes in all probability from the founder of an older monastic house on the site, while others derive the name from the word 'chelandion' - a kind of Byzantine ship. We now know that the Monastery was founded in the 12th century by Stefan Nemanja, Prince of Serbia, and his son Rastko, who subsequently became monks, taking the names of Symeon and Sabbas, as which they are perhaps Serbia's most...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery Vatopedi]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Vatopedi is on a hill by the sea on the north-eastern side of the Athos peninsula. It was founded around 972 - 985, probably by three rich nobles, Athanasius, Nicholas, and Antony, who came to live the monastic life on the Holy Mountain in the time of St Athanasius, the founder of the Megiste Lavra. In the Second Typikon (1045) it held second place among the monasteries, a position which it has retained to the present day. In the 12th and 13th centuries Sts Sabbas and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery Zografou]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Zographou is hidden on a wooded hillside on the south-western side of the Athos peninsula. According to tradition, its founders were three monks: Moses, Aaron, and John, from Ochrid, who became monks of the Holy Mountain in the 10th century. According to another account, the founder of the Monastery was ‘George the Painter (in Greek Zographos)’, who is mentioned in the Typikon of Tsimiskes (972). The Monastery is dedicated to St George, of whom it preserves an old icon,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery of Konstamonitou]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Konstamonitou stands in one of the most picturesque spots on Athos, surrounded by woodland and half an hour away from the Singitic Gulf. A tradition makes the founder of the Monastery Constantine the Great or one of his sons, but it is more likely that its foundation is connected with an ascetic of the name of Kastomonites, hence the Monastery's alternative name of Kastamonitou. There are references in certain texts of the 11th century to Kastamonitou, but its history can...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Pantocrator stands on the north-eastern side of the Athos peninsula, by the sea. Nearby is the site of the ancient city of Thyssus. Although age-long oral tradition maintains that it was founded by Alexius Comnenus, it is to be concluded from the surviving evidence that the founders of the Monastery were the brothers Alexius (who held the military rank of stratopedarches - camp commander) and Ioannes (a court official with the title of Great Primmicerius). It is not known...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery of Stavronikita]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Stavroniketa is the smallest in size on the Holy Mountain. It is on the eastern side of the peninsula between the Monasteries of Iveron and Pantocrator, looking towards the Strymonic Gulf. Its history, like that of the other monasteries, has been a turbulent one. Its earliest history is lost in the depths of the 10th and 11th centuries. Uncertain evidence allows us simply to conjecture that a certain Nicetas or Stavronicetas Nicephorus, an officer of Tsimiskes, was the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou is near Karyes, and is dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Saviour. The etymology of the name is in all probability connected with two phases in the life of the Monastery. A monastery with the name of Koutloumousi is mentioned in a document as early as 1169 and is to be identified with the one which bears that name today. Nevertheless, the second founder of the Monastery is thought to have been a certain Koutloumous, a member of a dynasty of the Seljuks...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Holy Monastery Iviron]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Holy Monastery of Iveron was founded towards the end of the 10th century by St John the Iberian (i.e., Georgian), a little after the founding of the Monastery of the Megiste Lavra and of Vatopedi. St John was a companion of St Athanasius. His foundation soon attracted others from his homeland. Among them was his brother-in-law Ioannes Tornicius. Tornicius, as a monk, was summoned by Basil II, Emperor of Byzantium, and together they put down the revolt of the general Bardas the Cruel. The...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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