Madagascar: Orthodoxy in the Eighth Continent...

Orthodoxy in the Eighth Continent and other informative videos on the activities of the Mission: Οrthodox Μadagascar /en/video

Orthodox Madagascar



Pavlos Perdikakis

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The Orthodox Christian Church in Madagascar
Orthodox Mission of Madagascar | Facebook
Orthodox Madagascar (tag in our blog)

Serving the people in Madagascar - Poverty, animism, bandits & Panayiotis, a boy who «ceased coming to church»...

Madagascar : "My son! Please... dedicate yourself entirely to ministering to this poor people" 

A Protestant missionary asked "Who brought you the Gospel?"

L'Οrthodoxie à Madagascar et son rôle social
Madagascar: la recherche de la vérité du Christ conduit à l'Eglise orthodoxe...
L'Eglise Orthodoxe à Madagascar
Madagascar: Pauvreté, esprits des morts, bandits et Panayiotis qui avaient un an à venir à l'église...

L’Eglise Orthodoxe à La Réunion 

 

Orthodox Mission in Tropical Africa (& the Decolonization of Africa)

The Orthodox Church of Alexandria & the Patriarchate of Alexandria

Ancient Christian faith (Orthodox Church) in Africa   

How “White” is the Orthodox Church?

LIVE, BEYOND THE LIMITS!
«African needs to be helped, to find his divine roots, for his soul to be at peace, to become united with God...»

 

The girl and the Dragon (St Marina the Great Martyr & Wonderworker - July 17)

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Three girls of July: The Great Martyrs Saints Kyriaki (Feast Day: July 7), Marina (July 17) & Paraskevi (July 26)

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St Hellius of Egypt (July 14)

Orthodox Church in America
 
Saint Hellius lived and died in the fourth century. He was sent to a monastery when he was still a child. There he was raised in piety, temperance and chastity.
When he grew up, he went into the Egyptian desert, where through his ascetical struggles he attained great proficiency in the spiritual life. He was endowed with the gift of clairvoyance, and he knew all the thoughts and disposition of the monks conversing with him.
Great faith, simplicity of soul and deep humility allowed Saint Hellius to command wild animals. Once, the saint became tired while carrying a heavy load to the monastery. He prayed and called a wild donkey to carry his burden. The donkey meekly carried the load to the place and was set free to return to the wilderness. Another time, when Saint Hellius needed to cross a river and there was no boat, he summoned a crocodile from the water and crossed to the opposite shore while standing on its back.
One of the young novices of the monastery, whom Saint Hellius visited, asked him to take him along into the far desert. Saint Hellius warned him about the great work, exploits and temptations which inevitably beset all the hermits, but since the novice continued fervently to ask, he took him along. On the first night the novice, frightened by terrible visions, ran to Saint Hellius. The monk comforted and calmed him down and ordered him to return. Tracing the Sign of the Cross over the cave, the monk told the young hermit not to fear, because he would not be disturbed by these apparitions any more. Trusting the word of the saint, the novice decided to remain in solitude and afterwards attained such perfection that he, like his teacher Hellius, received food from an angel.
Saint Hellius peacefully entered the heavenly mansions after reaching an advanced age. 

St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain (July 14), a 18th-century intellectual militant in favor of the enslaved orthodox peoples

Please, see:

Full of Grace and Truth: St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain

Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite | PEMPTOUSIA
 
Saint Nicodemos Publications

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St Hellius of Egypt & other saints on July 14
 

Great Saints on July 11 & 12 in the Orthodox Church!...

Icon: The Miracle of St. Euphemia in the 4th Ecumenican Council (from here)
 
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Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-praised

St. Olga the Princess of Russia, the Equal of the Apostles

Elder Sophrony Sakharov († July 11, 1993) 

Elder Sophrony, Grace and “the Inverted Pyramid”   

 

Theosis, St. Silouan and Elder Sophrony

 

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Saint Paisios of Mount Athos (1924-1994), Feast day: July 12 

 

Three contemporary Orthodox Saints & the African peoples

 

Saint Paisios of Athos in the Youth Culture of Grece...

 

Elder Paisios and the Aroma of Reverence  

 

The Orthodox Church in Angola, st. Eleftherios (the "Man of Freedom") & st. Paisios of Holy Mount

 

The Miracle of St. Euphemia the Great-Martyr and St. Paisios the Athonite

 

St Euphemia visiting St Paisios

 

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Theosis (deification): The True Purpose of Human Life

 

LIVE, BEYOND THE LIMITS!

 

Orthodox Monasticism   

 

The Church as the Liberated Zone

 

Orthodox Saints on July 11 & July 12  

 

From the feast of Saint Procopius & Saint Kyriaki in Africa

From the feast of Saint Procopius in Uganda (here)

From the feast of Saint Procopius in Burundi (here)

From the feast of Saint Kyriaki in South Africa (here)

From the feast of Saint Kyriaki 2017 in Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

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Saint Greatmartyr Procopius of Caesarea, in Palestine
Three girls of July: The Great Martyrs Saints Kyriaki (Feast Day: July 7), Marina (July 17) & Paraskevi (July 26) 
Martyr Kyriaki of Nicomedia (Orthodox Metropolis of Zambia and Malawi)

The Church as the Liberated Zone

Orthodox Uganda 

Orthodox Burundi 
Orthodox South Africa

Orthodox Democratic Republic of Congo 

The Orthodox Church in Uganda, an outgrowth of indigenous self discovery
Pioneers of the Orthodox Church in Uganda!

 

Saint Greatmartyr Procopius of Caesarea, in Palestine

Commemorated on July 8
Troparion & Kontakion

Orthodox Church in America
 
The Holy Great Martyr Procopius, in the world Neanius, a native of Jerusalem, lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Diocletian (284-305). His father, an eminent Roman by the name of Christopher, was a Christian, but the mother of the saint, Theodosia, remained a pagan. He was early deprived of his father, and the young child was raised by his mother. Having received an excellent secular education, he was introduced to Diocletian in the very first year of the emperor’s accession to the throne, and he quickly advanced in government service. Towards the year 303, when open persecution against Christians began, Neanius was sent as a proconsul to Alexandria with orders to mercilessly persecute the Church of God.
On the way to Egypt, near the Syrian city of Apamea, Neanius had a vision of the Lord Jesus, similar to the vision of Saul on the road to Damascus. A divine voice exclaimed, “Neanius, why do you persecute Me?”
Neanius asked, “Who are you, Lord?”
“I am the crucified Jesus, the Son of God.”
At that moment a radiant Cross appeared in the air. Neanius felt an inexpressible joy and spiritual happiness in his heart and he was transformed from being a persecutor into a zealous follower of Christ. From this point in time Neanius became favorably disposed towards Christians and fought victoriously against the barbarians.
The words of the Savior came true for the saint, “A man’s foes shall be those of his own household” (Mt. 10:36). His mother, a pagan herself, went to the emperor to complain that her son did not worship the ancestral gods. Neanius was summoned to the procurator Judaeus Justus, where he was solemnly handed the decree of Diocletian. Having read through the blasphemous directive, Neanius quietly tore it up before the eyes of everyone. This was a crime, which the Romans regarded as an “insult to authority.” Neanius was held under guard and in chains sent to Caesarea of Palestine, where the Apostle Paul once languished. After terrible torments, they threw the saint into a dark prison. That night, a light shone in the prison, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself baptized the suffering confessor, and gave him the name Procopius.
Repeatedly they led Saint Procopius to the courtroom, demanding that he renounce Christ, and they subjected him to more tortures. The stolidity of the martyr and his fiery faith brought down God’s abundant grace on those who witnessed the execution.
Inspired by the example of Procopius, many of the holy martyr’s former guards and Roman soldiers went beneath the executioner’s sword together with their tribunes Nikostrates and Antiochus. Twelve Christian women received martyr’s crowns, after they came to the gates of the Caesarea Praetorium.
Struck by the great faith and courage of the Christians, and seeing the firmness of her son in bearing terrible sufferings, Theodosia became repentant and stood in the line of confessors and was executed. Finally the new procurator, Flavian, convinced of the futility of the tortures, sentenced the holy Great Martyr Procopius to beheading by the sword. By night Christians took up his much-tortured body, and with tears and prayers, they committed it to the earth. This was the first martyrdom at Caesarea (303). 

See also

Three girls of July...

Saint Paisios of Athos in the Youth Culture of Grece...
Elder Sophrony Sakharov († July 11, 1993) 

Saint Paisios of Mount Athos (1924-1994), Feast day: July 12 

Elder Sophrony, Grace and “the Inverted Pyramid”   

Theosis, St. Silouan and Elder Sophrony
Theosis (deification): The True Purpose of Human Life

Orthodox Monasticism 
"Partakers of Divine Nature" - About Deification & Uncreated Light in Orthodox Church
The Uncreated Light

"THE WAY" - An Introduction to the Orthodox Faith 

The Church as the Liberated Zone