“All these early printed books that we discovered on Mount Athos constitute a unique literary, spiritual, and cultural heritage that has survived in a foreign land, far from Ukrainian soil. In the 16th–18th centuries, the Kyiv Church and Kyivan Christianity exerted a powerful spiritual and cultural influence on other peoples and other Local Churches, including at such an ancient global center of Eastern Christian monasticism as the Holy Mountain of Athos.

“Today, from Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great and Saint Mark, we raise our prayers to the Panagia, the Mother of us all, We ask her to wipe away the tears of children, comfort mothers who are suffering, protect the innocent, and enlighten the leaders of the world so that peace may prevail. The Panagia knows no borders or distinctions; her maternal embrace has room for every person and every nation.

“Venerable Nazaria brought the hesychast tradition to the monastery, Olimpiada fostered the beauty of its liturgical life, while Elisabeta transformed prayer into works of mercy

“In the final part of her life, she withdrew to Surpatele Monastery, and from there she would often go to pray before the wonderworking icon of the Mother of God at Dintr-un Lemn Monastery. The route, which she sometimes travelled at night carrying oil lamps, became known as the Lady’s Road or the Road of Tears.

Patriarch Daniel ›

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“Constantinople “diminished itself and itself granted them ecclesiastical independence, known as autocephaly – it weakened itself in order to serve each Orthodox people.”

Patriarch Bartholomew ›

Reported

“over the years of his ministry Patriarch Bartholomew organized the Council of Crete, resumed services in Cappadocia, and opened Greek schools on Imbros.

“Egypt became a refuge for Christ and the Panagia and remains a blessed land to this day

“The Church of Alexandria sincerely, wholeheartedly and with one mind supports the inter-Orthodox and interreligious initiatives of Your All-Holiness,