[NRx]

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[NRx]

Scenes from the service held at St. Tikhon’s Monastery...

https://youtu.be/3pbQp7mhOYY

[D-fendr]

This is a very interesting difference in East and West.

Thanks much for posting.

[cloudmountain]

I'm a Catholic so I guess I can post. If not, my apologies.

I thought that Mary died in Ephesus. There is a one room stone house there, called Mary's house. Ephesus was a PORT 2000 years ago right on the sea but time has changed to topography a lot.
I thought she traveled with St. John for a while. He did go to Ephesus, but, perhaps I'm wrong.

We saw it when we went on an ARAMCO tour to Turkey. We also saw the caves where the FIRST Christians hid out from "the authorities."