What a Holy beautiful Saint. A great role model for everybody especially young women. St Olympia please pray for us and please pray that our Churches here in Sydney open up again very soon.
What a caliber of Saint how far are we from such virtues. Pray to God for us dear St Olympia’s And the greatest of all the mother of God have mercy on us.
She lived an extraordinary life, Glory to God! Having said that I am glad there is a path to becoming an abbess that doesn’t require you to be ordained as a deaconess. And I am glad that women are not being pushed to become deaconesses especially with so few monasteries available in the United States. There are no monasteries in the vast State of Utah for example.
Blessed be God and All of His Angel's and All of His Saint's Amen. Thank you for this beautiful video. God Bless you and may He continue to guide and instruct you in making many more blessed videos for us sinners☦
Xristos Anesti! Dear Brothers & Sisters, I pray for your ministry, May our Good Lord continue to Bless you and your work. Glory To God For All Things ☦️
Please, keep making these videos about the lives of the saints! I`ve just started reading the Synaxarion, and your videos are a great help to the imagination
She's my patron saint and there are some similarities in our lives. Thank you for this. It made me cry. Thank you for the reminder of my heavenly intercessor who is always there for me.
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Olympias was born and raised either in Constantinople or Antioch. She was the daughter born to the Antiochian Greek noblewoman, Alexandra and the wealthy Greek Rhetor, Seleucus. Olympias was the namesake of her late paternal aunt Olympias, who was once engaged to the Roman emperor Constans, and who later married the Roman Client King of Arsacid Armenia Arsaces II (Arshak II). The paternal grandfather of Olympias was Flavius Ablabius, who had held consular rank in Constantinople, while her maternal uncle was Calliopius the Rhetor, who served as a grammaticus and assistant-teacher under the Rhetor, historian Libanius, and later served as a Roman official under the Roman emperors Constantius II and Julian the Apostate. Olympias is described as the ‘beloved daughter’ born to Seleucus and Alexandra. At eighteen years of age, Olympias married a nobleman called Nebridius who served as Prefect of Constantinople. But after two years of marriage, her husband died. After refusing many offers of marriage, she dedicated her life to the church, serving as a deaconess. She would later become a friend of Saint John Chrysostom. Her good works included building a hospital, an orphanage, and even looking after monks who had been led in exile from Nitria. All of this even led to John Chrysostom telling her that she had done almost too much. Her support for John Chrysostom led her to being exiled in 404, which resulted in her losing her house and living the rest of her life in exile at Nicomedia, where she would die on July 25, 408, after a long illness. Olympias is one of the 140 Colonnade Saints who adorn Saint Peter's Square.
That's a very nice, i think it's called troporian could be wrong, but very nice song there about her life, whoever was singing also good byzantine chanting.
I'd like to know more bout St. Olympias' ordination as a deaconess and why we still have no female deacons in the apostolic churches? What a blessing it would be to bring back this office which scripture describes for holy women and what powerful saints we might be have if we could have deaconesses back!! St. Olympias pray for us that we might be open as a church to this ministry too long supressed!
Can you provide a bibliography for the information? In particular, I am looking for the book on her life, which I heard was written soon after her death by an unknown author.
Maybe someone has already brought this up, but near the beginning it suggests that she had the choice as a widow to be married again or consecrate herself to 'virginity.' Well, unless her dead husband was shirking his duties she is not longer a virgin. Maybe it would have been better to say 'chastity' rather than virginity.
In the ascetic language of the early Church, the monastic life is seen as a life consecrated to "virginity" in that the people involved remain chaste for the rest of their life, but also pure in their souls in every other way. So, there is no differentiation between those who were married before and those who were not. This is not about physical bodily virginity, but about a life of purity in both body and soul. I hope this makes sense.
It was NOT a liturgical function. Today, women have significant influence on any parish especially by running the parish council. It's not ordained, but then again, there is no necessity for a formal ordination. Today's modernists are trying to exploit our ignorance about the 'deaconesses' (lit. female Church servants) of the early Church, which requires having some historical background.
What is meant by "Diaconate" here, is a recognition and tasking (setting aside for) a life of prayer and service to the Church and the community to which she was called. Deacons were similar but different. St Phoebe served the early church in the same way Olympia did ... In his Letter to the Romans 16:1 (AD 58) St Paul writes: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is the servant of the church at Cenchreae.". The original Greek says: οὖσαν διάκονον, ousan diakonon, being [the] [female] servant of the church at Cenchreae. Note not as in the Divine Liturgical services, but a much deeper life of service and prayer.
What a Holy beautiful Saint. A great role model for everybody especially young women. St Olympia please pray for us and please pray that our Churches here in Sydney open up again very soon.
The unity of the Church
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What a caliber of Saint how far are we from such virtues. Pray to God for us dear St Olympia’s And the greatest of all the mother of God have mercy on us.
St Olympia please pray for us. Thank you for this beautiful film about this beautiful Saint.
Holy Deaconess St. Olympias pray to God for us.
She lived an extraordinary life, Glory to God! Having said that I am glad there is a path to becoming an abbess that doesn’t require you to be ordained as a deaconess. And I am glad that women are not being pushed to become deaconesses especially with so few monasteries available in the United States. There are no monasteries in the vast State of Utah for example.
Blessed be God and All of His Angel's and All of His Saint's Amen.
Thank you for this beautiful video. God Bless you and may He continue to guide and instruct you in making many more blessed videos for us sinners☦
Thank you friend! Please keep praying that we can do this for as long as well live.
Xristos Anesti!
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I pray for your ministry, May our Good Lord continue to Bless you and your work.
Glory To God For All Things ☦️
Glory to God for all things!
praise the lord jesus christ bless you loves you halleuyaah amen
Through the prayers of our Holy Mother's ☦️ St. OLYMPIA, LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR GOD have mercy on us and save us, Amen.
Please, keep making these videos about the lives of the saints!
I`ve just started reading the Synaxarion, and your videos are a great help to the imagination
Glad to hear that our videos help! Please share with friends and family so that we can grow!
God bless
She's my patron saint and there are some similarities in our lives. Thank you for this. It made me cry. Thank you for the reminder of my heavenly intercessor who is always there for me.
Mine too, sister ❤
Thank you for all!🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful video.Thank you so much.God bless you.
There are many great saints that still connect the Catholic Church to the Orthodox Church; she and Saint John Chrysostom are two of them.
Lovely video! As always. God bless you!☦️
Thank you for your kind words.
May God bless u my brethren : u made my soul touched by the love of the saints!!! Saints of Lord Jesus Christ please pray for me a sinner!
Beautiful 🙏🏻💖🙏🏻
4:32, her devotion to live free from material possessions, etc.
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A truly bright light at Olympia pray for us. 👃👃👃
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Kyrie Eleison!!! Pray for us st Olympia!!! From n Idaho USA
I love your videos! I hug you from Romania
Que Deus abençoe sempre amém
Olympias was born and raised either in Constantinople or Antioch. She was the daughter born to the Antiochian Greek noblewoman, Alexandra and the wealthy Greek Rhetor, Seleucus. Olympias was the namesake of her late paternal aunt Olympias, who was once engaged to the Roman emperor Constans, and who later married the Roman Client King of Arsacid Armenia Arsaces II (Arshak II). The paternal grandfather of Olympias was Flavius Ablabius, who had held consular rank in Constantinople, while her maternal uncle was Calliopius the Rhetor, who served as a grammaticus and assistant-teacher under the Rhetor, historian Libanius, and later served as a Roman official under the Roman emperors Constantius II and Julian the Apostate.
Olympias is described as the ‘beloved daughter’ born to Seleucus and Alexandra. At eighteen years of age, Olympias married a nobleman called Nebridius who served as Prefect of Constantinople. But after two years of marriage, her husband died. After refusing many offers of marriage, she dedicated her life to the church, serving as a deaconess. She would later become a friend of Saint John Chrysostom.
Her good works included building a hospital, an orphanage, and even looking after monks who had been led in exile from Nitria. All of this even led to John Chrysostom telling her that she had done almost too much. Her support for John Chrysostom led her to being exiled in 404, which resulted in her losing her house and living the rest of her life in exile at Nicomedia, where she would die on July 25, 408, after a long illness. Olympias is one of the 140 Colonnade Saints who adorn Saint Peter's Square.
Adorei essa imagem belíssima
This channel is beautiful
7:03, St.Chrysostom’s admiration of Olympia.
St. Olympias pray for us ☦️
Strange that the date I discovered your channel was july 24th, and that was the date of St.Olympia's death, and that's today... haha. Great videos!
Thats awesome! God bless :)
May This Beloved Saint be your Patrone Saint.!!!
That's a very nice, i think it's called troporian could be wrong, but very nice song there about her life, whoever was singing also good byzantine chanting.
Its the Apolytikion for saint olympias. glad you enjoyed it!
I'd like to know more bout St. Olympias' ordination as a deaconess and why we still have no female deacons in the apostolic churches? What a blessing it would be to bring back this office which scripture describes for holy women and what powerful saints we might be have if we could have deaconesses back!! St. Olympias pray for us that we might be open as a church to this ministry too long supressed!
Nuns
5:52, a biographer’s account of the Christian life of Olympia.
Amén.
Amen 🙏 ✝️
Can you provide a bibliography for the information? In particular, I am looking for the book on her life, which I heard was written soon after her death by an unknown author.
What women’s chant is that playing in the background?
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What’s the name of the background music for the first portion??
It is "reconstructed eastern Roman music" What the music of "Byzantium" might have sounded like. The composer is Hristodoulos Halaris.
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Amen!
Be alot nicer without background music
Maybe someone has already brought this up, but near the beginning it suggests that she had the choice as a widow to be married again or consecrate herself to 'virginity.' Well, unless her dead husband was shirking his duties she is not longer a virgin. Maybe it would have been better to say 'chastity' rather than virginity.
In the ascetic language of the early Church, the monastic life is seen as a life consecrated to "virginity" in that the people involved remain chaste for the rest of their life, but also pure in their souls in every other way. So, there is no differentiation between those who were married before and those who were not. This is not about physical bodily virginity, but about a life of purity in both body and soul. I hope this makes sense.
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Ordained to the diaconate? Sounds a lot like Holy Orders.
It was NOT a liturgical function. Today, women have significant influence on any parish especially by running the parish council. It's not ordained, but then again, there is no necessity for a formal ordination. Today's modernists are trying to exploit our ignorance about the 'deaconesses' (lit. female Church servants) of the early Church, which requires having some historical background.
@@thingsweneverdid3782 The video says that she was ordained.
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What is meant by "Diaconate" here, is a recognition and tasking (setting aside for) a life of prayer and service to the Church and the community to which she was called. Deacons were similar but different.
St Phoebe served the early church in the same way Olympia did ...
In his Letter to the Romans 16:1 (AD 58) St Paul writes: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is the servant of the church at Cenchreae.". The original Greek says: οὖσαν διάκονον, ousan diakonon, being [the] [female] servant of the church at Cenchreae.
Note not as in the Divine Liturgical services, but a much deeper life of service and prayer.
@@castresetipaldi3050 don't think Margot would see it this way ^ ^ ^