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- Little known to many is the fact that the Parthenon was one of the Christian world's most important pilgrimage sites for over a millenium!
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I had no idea. Thanks for dropping some knowledge!
Changes the way you see the building, doesn't it?
Thank you my man for giving testimony to one of my favorite subjects! I read Anthony Kaldellis' book on Byzantine Athens and was so excited when I learned about this. The Emperor Basil II after his victory against the Bulgars, instead of going straight to Constantinople, went out of his way with his army to worship at the Parthenon, which shows just how important of a pilgrimage site it is. It also shone with light miraculously. It's just so ironic that the only reason people visit the Parthenon today is because of it being a Christian temple without even knowing that it ever was.
Hadn't come across the story of Basil! Thank you!
And yes, the irony of not knowing the reason the building actually BECAME an icon of Western Culture is amazing. Glad that we can at least share a part of the Christian history, and knowing the Christian history changes our perception of the entire building!
This is extraordinary! Once more I have learned another amazing fact thanks to you guys! God bless you! ☦✝
⚜️Theotokos Parthene, intercede for us with Christ our God ☦️
I am watching this video from a list of different christian predications and, arriving to this video today, "coincidentally", I am in the middle of watching the movie Jason and the Argonauts (1963) which I started yesterday evening. Glory to Christ!
Well timed!
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@@AlexLGagnon We understand. There is a joy in knowing we are in a family of saints, but the distance can be very real.
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I love this history. Thank you Brother!
Another great video❤ thank you🙏🙏🙏
Typo in "unknown" at 1:20
Drat. We even highlighted it. 🤦♂
@@Patristix no worries. Great presentation
Great video. God Bless.
Very good thanks 🎖
3:13 What's the story of the icon created by Saint Luke the Evangelist? In the sense of, we know it was at the Parthenon apparently... but where did it go afterwards? What happened to it?
The last mention of it is in a 13th century document. A sad assumption is that it was destroyed with everything else in the 15th. Though perhaps it was moved and that move not recorded
@@Patristix We need an Empress St. Helen of the modern-day to uncover this! 😭
Wish I knew this, I had a beautiful plate that I got rid of, I was told it was Pagan.
This is an amazing story. It is a shame how Protestant thought replaced Christian tales and folklore with whatever pagan nonsense was trending at the time.
That's why Protestantism is a disease to the Christian faith.
And why Luther and the Reformers are the children of Satan.
I was in Athens recently and was thinking “how could this not have been turned into a church?”
It turns out it was 🙂
Correct thought! Quite a number of major temple buildings across Greece carried on being used as churches for absolutely centuries
Yep! Even the old temple of Hephaestus in Athens was a church until Otto king of Greece made all of the temples into museums...that man was despicable.
@@DemetriosLevididn't know that. Thank you.
Wow, so much lost history...
Thank you for this well researched video! Protestants emphasized history so strangely, making it seem as if the reformation took place soon after the fall of Rome! In the future there seems to be much work to be done as Orthodox to reeducate the church on what gems we lost. Your efforts to do this are much appreciated
as an Orthodox Christian Turk, I find so upsetting the fact that the Ottomans did harm such an important pilgrimage site. and we have never taught this side of the history.
I think part of the reason that the Christian history of the Parthenon was lost to most is due to a general disinterest towards the Byzantine Empire and Church History in general among mainstream academia. Growing up, I was never taught about the Byzantines, and I had no idea that the Orthodox Church even existed!
I'd actually been told that the Russians and Greeks were Catholic, and being raised as a Protestant, I had little interest in learning about either culture as a result. Only with my personal studies of Medieval history, (the Crusades being a major point of focus,) did I learn about the Eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox faith, and now I'm a Catechumen and my baptism is right around the corner!
I think it's really sad that so much of the world's history is taught to us in such a distorted and selective manner these days, and further more, so many people in my generation seem to have a general lack of interest in history. I pray that America's youth heed the lessons of their ancestors, so that they can avoid repeating their mistakes.
It never ceases to amaze me how people are able to be so right and yet so wrong at the same time: technically Russians and Greeks (and others) truly are Catholic - they just aren't ROMAN Catholics... But anyway, I agree with you - you hardly hear anything about the Byzantine Empire or the Orthodox Church, because the mainstream academics (and popular culture and media) focus more on Western culture (and by "Western" I mean in this particular context Italy, French, Germany, and the Great Britain, perhaps Spain can be also included). It's very understandable, but really very sad.
@@HomoEucharistica I would disagree about Greeks and Russians being Catholic, given the immense degree of separation that has formed between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. While it is true that the Orthodox hold to the Nicean Creed, (no Filoque, by the way,) and the Creed does state that they are part of "One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church", the Orthodox Church is no longer in communion with the Catholic Church, and hasn't been for almost one thousand years. Combine this with extremely different Ecclesiology and a number of key differences in Christology, as well as a general distrust of Catholicism both culturally and Theologically, and it becomes very difficult to describe the Orthodox Church as any variant of Catholic beyond the superficial.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but this has been a bit of a pet peeve of mine since I first began going to an Orthodox Church and my family, (all Protestant,) thought I was joining the Catholic Church.
@@drivingbritt9617 Rather, so-called Roman Catholic church shouldn't be called "Catholic" from the Orthodox perspective, because Catholics are not truly Catholic... they are more like first Protestants. The Orthodox Church (also called "Greek Catholic Church") alone is true Catholic Church. "Roman Catholicism" is merely one patriarchate (that claims to represent the whole Church) that fell away from the Apostolic dogma and praxis and didn't hold the Orthodox _phronema,_ and therefore it doesn't deserve to be called "Catholic" either.
*_But due to the fact_* the modern world connects the word "Catholic" with Roman Catholicism and uses that title as its name (also the Orthodox do that), and since that word has so strong and negative connotations in people's thinking, it's wiser to talk about the Orthodox Church. If the church of Rome calls herself "Catholic" and Protestants call themselves "Evangelicals", then the title "Orthodox" rightfully belongs to us. One interesting problem (or benefit) with that epithet is that people sometimes thinks we are ORTHODOX JEWS
@@HomoEucharistica Funny how words get jumbled like that. Thank the Lord for Etymology!
It makes sense, really: when you have a purpose-built (and quite beautiful) place of worship for a religion no longer practiced, why not repurpose it for something more useful? And just to be clear: by more useful i mean "church", not gun powder storage...
I live in Nashville, TN, which is also called the "Athens of the South." Unfortunately, we also have a complete life size replica of the Parthenon with a huge statue of Athena right in front of it. I would love for it to be used as a church, but the government here, is much more interested in promoting the pagan aspects of it. It sits inside Centennial Park, which is overrun with homosexuality, drug users, and you name it. Nashville may be known as Music City USA, and the Athens of the South, and it has hundreds of "churches", but it's much more like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Fascinating. Thanks for this.
Thanks for watching!
What about the Parthenon replica in Nashville Tennessee 🤔
When Nashville becomes Orthodox, we can make it into a church too ☦
@@Patristixas an orthodox Nashvillian I see this as an absolute win
I'll come from Gatlinburg to help!
@@braydenwilt7973i'd go back there from LA if i could. I may leave a comment about it in another place, but oh, how i despise that monstrous statue of athena that got installed in recent years. I haven't been inside since the 1970s i guess. Have no desire to now. But oh how i loved seeing it from outside, especially at night when i lived there after college or when my husband and i returned to see his family.
What a lovely change to hope for. Love to the Orthodox in Nashville and TN. NOT on my radar when i lived there.
Learn something new every day, thank you!
What an amazing story... thank you 😮.
You got a new subscriber! ❤️✝️
Welcome to Patristix!
Loved this episode! You should have been drinking Greek mountain tea!
That sounds interesting... what is Greek Mountain tea? Should we look for some?
@@Patristixyes, absolutely! and faskomilo is also a beautiful herb, a kind of sage, i think, and also makes a wonderful brew. 9:14
Thank you
Thanks for this
Could you explain the use of relics?
Also amazing video!
A relic video will certainly appear at some point!
@@Patristix my once Protestant mind can't understand its function so thank you.
@@ChristianEphraimson it's definitely a question to investigate coming from a Western culture. But definitely a good question to ask of your priest as well!
Cool video!
Random question; how does a blind person who is Orthodox observe icons & such? I really do mean that as a genuine question-it’s something I’ve been wondering about for awhile! 😂
This article is a nice and inspiring one on icons for the blind: catalogueofstelisabethconvent.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-making-of-orthodox-icons-for-blind.html
Also found this: summerkinard.com/2019/04/22/icons-for-christians-with-visual-impairments/
We do have a tradition of carved relief imagery in icons, these can be felt.
We have several wonderful saints who were blind including Matrona of Moscow and Anthimos Kourouklis
Thanks!
The first article came up with a “404 page not found” message (at least in my phone-which is super old), but the 2nd article worked.
Thanks for such a prompt reply!
@@benyates785 Hmmm... That's weird. Because it doesn't work for me either and I pasted it. Trying again:
catalogueofstelisabethconvent.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-making-of-orthodox-icons-for-blind.html
@@Patristixit works! Thanks again-can’t wait to read it