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To: Kolokotronis

Look at the footnotes on this page-—there is a discussion about those “unknown saints” -

http://www.eastern-orthodoxy.com/intercession.htm


20 posted on 09/18/2010 10:53:39 AM PDT by eleni121 (http://www.serfes.org/orthodox/memoryof.htm)
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To: eleni121

I have no disagreement with the concept, or reality, of unknown saints, eleni mou. I think my great grandmother, in the bosom of Abraham, is one. I believe Mt. Athos and any of a number of monasteries in our Patrida and elsewhere, are havens for unknown saints and I firmly believe that they intercede for us. I disagree that one is dragged witlessly into theosis. I also think it’s far, far too simple to speak of unknown saints in “heaven”.

As for theosis, plainly not witless, try this:

http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/christou_partakers.html


26 posted on 09/18/2010 12:16:23 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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