Prossesjon i byen
med ikonet av
Agios Panteleimonas.
Øverste foto ble tatt i 2007, på
avstand, fra en balkong, så det har ikke den store kvaliteten!
Tatt kvelden før navedagen, - de begynner alltid feiringen
kvelden før.
Det var så spesielt å sitte der å se ned (forstå meg rett)
alle disse menneskene, mange med tente lys i hendene, følge
prossesjonen. Først gikk "små-gutta" med bannere, så
kom ikonet og presten, og til slutte menigheten.
Veldig stemningsfullt.
Jeg hadde store planer om å ta et bedre foto
i år, 2008, men det ble det ikke noe av.
Satt med en venn på min takterrasse, da jeg hørte kirkeklokkene,
sa jeg; "Det må være fra Agios Panteleimonas!" Og da
var det for sent å komme seg ut for å ta et foto!
Neste år?
2009; Satt oppe i
OlivenLunden med
husets herre og nøt en bedre middag.
Masse kiming i kirkeklokkene;
Ax, det er jo Agios Panteleimon, sa jeg,
igjen for sent til å få tatt bilde!
Hva skjer i 2010, vil noen
minne meg på at jeg må fotografere prossesjonen, please!
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Procession
in town of
the icon of
Agios Panteleimonas
Top photo was taken in 2007, from a distance, on a friends
balcony, sorry not best quality!
Taken the night before, - they always starts the celebration the
night before a nameday.
It was very special to sit there and look down at all this people,
many had lit candles, following the procession. First the small boys
with banners, then the icon and the priest and then the congregation.
Very touching and beautiful.
I had big plans to take a better
photo this year, 2008, but not! Was sitting at my roof-terrace
with a friend, when I heard the church-bells, and I said; !That
must be from Agios Panetleimonas!" And it was, but then it
was to late to go out to take a photo!
Nest year?
2009; Was sitting up in the
OliveGrove
with the landlord and enjoyed a nice dinner.
Lots of chiming from the church bells;
Ax, must be Agios Panteleimonas, I said,
again to late for a photo.
What will happen in 2010, will
somebody please remind me that I must photograph the possession,
please!
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From
Wikipedia;
Saint Pantaleon (Greek:
Παντελεήμων
Panteleimon 'all-compassionate'), counted in the
West among the late-medieval Fourteen
Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy
Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr
of Nicomedia
in Bithynia
during the Diocletian
persecution of 303 AD. Though there is evidence to suggest
that a martyr named Pantaleon existed, the various stories told of
his life and death are considered by some to be purely legendary.
According to the martyrologies,
Pantaleon was the son of a rich pagan, Eustorgius of Nicomedia,
and had been instructed in Christianity by his Christian mother, Saint
Eubula; however, after her death he fell away from the
Christian church, while he studied medicine with a renowned
physician Euphrosinos; under the patronage of Euphrosinos he
became physician to the Emperor
Maximian or Galerius.
He was won back to Christianity by Saint
Hermolaus (characterized as a bishop of the church at
Nicomedia in the later literature), who convinced him that Christ
was the better physician, signalling the significance of the exemplum
of Pantaleon that faith is to be trusted over medical advice,
marking the direction European medicine was to take until the 16th
century.
Panteleimon was one of the 14 Holy Helpers:
Acacius ·
Barbara ·
Blaise ·
Catherine
of Alexandria ·
Christopher ·
Cyriacus Denis ·
Elmo ·
Eustace ·
George ·
Giles ·
Margaret the Virgin ·
Pantaleon ·
Vitus
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