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St. Clement of Rome (Feast Day - November 24)

Verses

Clement is cast into the depths like an anchor,

And is present with Christ, the anchor of the eschaton.

 

Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (+ 101)

The Martyrdom and Relics of St. Clement of Rome

 

Saint Clement of Rome: the Great Apostolic Father

 

November: Day 24: Teaching 2: Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Rome

 

Saint Clement of Rome in the Hymnography of the Orthodox Church 

The Sistine Chapel of Vatican City (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

The Sistine Chapel of Vatican City 

 

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Recently, on the occasion of the election of the new Pope, there had been much talk about the temple in which the conclave of Cardinals gathered to elect him, namely the Capella Sistina or Sistine Chapel.

The Capella Sistina (Sistine Chapel) was renovated by Pope Sixtus IV from 1473 to 1477 in order to be used as the Papal Chapel (Cappella Pontificia), which was established in 1483 in honor of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV.

In order to paint the temple, many prominent painters were enlisted, such as Botticelli, Perugino, Signorelli, Cosimo Rosselli, Pinturicchio and others, but mainly the great painter Michelangelo, who constitutes the pinnacle of the Renaissance and heralds the Baroque.

The Canonical Epistle of Saint Tarasios of Constantinople to Pope Adrian of Rome

 

Saint Tarasios of Constantinople

Prolegomena

Our divine Father Tarasios lived in the reign of Constantine and Irene his mother, in the time of Nikephoros the Administrator General. In the year 795, through the influence exerted by Empress Irene, who was a woman belonging originally to the populace, he was elevated to the Patriarchal throne of Constantinople, succeeding Paul as Patriarch of Constantinople on the 21st day of the month of December, and held the office of Patriarch for 21 years and 2 months. He really did a great deed in that through his importunity he persuaded the Emperor and Empress to assemble the holy Seventh Ecumenical Synod, and by means of his begging letters to Pope Adrian of Rome and to the Patriarchs of the East, he persuaded these dignitaries to send legates, or deputies, to the Synod. He was an uncle of the most holy Patriarch Photios. Besides his other letters, he wrote this letter of his against simoniacs and despatched it to Pope Adrian of Rome because such an evil practice was going on also in Rome. This letter was accepted by the Church as a Canonical Epistle, and is to be found on p. 896 of the second volume of the Conciliar Records, and in volume II of the Pandects.