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To: Kolokotronis

This guy is good.


10 posted on 09/09/2007 5:32:33 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg

“This guy is good.”

He’s more than that, MD. Notice how he is surrounded by a full body halo in the icon. Its one of only two or three examples of this that I am aware of other than of Christ. +Symeon is one of three Eastern saints named “The Theologian”, +John the Apostle, +Gregory Nazianzen and +Symeon the New Theologian.

Here’s a snip of something I’ll post a bit later:

“He starts to be revealed clearly and to be known in a great familiarity and to be seen much clearly; the invisible invisibly speaks and hears and as if a friend to a friend, face to face, who is by his nature the God speaks with them who have been born from Him by grace Gods, and as a father loves and by His sons is loved in a great warmth; and He becomes for them a strange vision and a more terrific sound, without being able either to be spoken by them worthily or to be neglected, covered in silence. Because by the yearning for Him they always are lit up and mystically by Him resound.”


12 posted on 09/09/2007 5:54:20 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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