Category: Religion, Saints
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The Feasts of Peter and Paul, Apostles, June 29
Photo by Kate Pettegrew (June 29, 2007) Photo by Kate Pettegrew (June 29, 2007) The troparion and kontakia for June 29 from the website of the Orthodox Church of America: ************** First-enthroned of the apostles,teachers of the universe:Entreat the Master of allto grant peace to the world,and to our souls great mercy! ************** O…
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Abstracts from Paul, People, and Politics Conference
As a follow up to my last post on the “Corinth – Paul, People, and Politics” at Macquarie University, I have just received from Cavan Concannon a PDF document of the paper abstracts. Check out the Corinth Conference Abstracts. The papers covered a wide range of issues relating in some way to Pauline or early Christian…
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St. Leonidas and the Seven Virgins, Martyrs, April 16
On the eve of the start of Holy Week in both western and eastern churches, it is appropriate to highlight the life of Leonidas and companions, martyred for their faith in Corinth while celebrating Pascha sometime in the mid-third century AD. The Synaxarion of the Orthodox Church notes April 16 as the day commemorating the martyrdom…
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St. Kodratos and Company
March 10 marks the feast day of a third century martyr named Kodratos, a Christian poorly known today but evidently important for the church communities of Late Antique and Byzantine Corinth. This Kodratos (aka Codratus / Quadratus) is not to be confused with the famous Kodratos of Athens, the bishop and apologist of the second century.…
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Corinthiaka
Some interesting Corinthiaka (Corinthian Matters) for this Wednesday morning: Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner, authors of a new commentary on 1 Corinthians, talk about St. Paul and Roman sexual ethics in the Corinthian community in a two part video here and here. Michael Bird’s brief review of their commentary can be found here. A couple of summer conferences related…
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