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The Holy Trinity

God is one Being in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Orthodox Christianity confesses one God who exists as three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. These three are not three gods, nor three modes of one God — they are one divine Being, sharing one nature, yet genuinely distinct in Person. This mystery was not invented by theologians but revealed by God Himself: at the Baptism of Christ, the Father speaks from heaven, the Son stands in the water, and the Holy Spirit descends as a dove. The Nicene Creed, defined at the First and Second Ecumenical Councils (325 and 381 AD), expresses this faith precisely. The Church does not claim to fully explain the Trinity — she confesses it, worships it, and is drawn into it through prayer and the sacramental life.

St. NektariosOrthodox Church

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Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

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Under the omophorion of the Church of the True Greek Orthodox Christians of Greece — the faithful who, since 1924, have held the ancestral Julian Calendar and the apostolic Faith unaltered, in canonical continuity with the pre-innovation Orthodox Church.

Holy New Martyr Catherine of Mandra

Holy New Martyr Catherine of Mandra

In Memory · †November 15/28, 1927

Saint Catherine of Mandra — First Martyr of the Old Calendar Struggle

In November 1927, three years after the Greek hierarchy imposed the Revised Calendar, police surrounded a church in Mandra, Attica, on the orders of the new-calendar Archbishop of Athens — to arrest the faithful's Old Calendar priest. Catherine Routis, a 27-year-old mother of two, formed a human wall with the other pious women. When a policeman raised his rifle-butt to strike Father Christopher, Catherine covered him with her body. She received the mortal blow to the back of her head. She died seven days later, whispering "Most Holy Theotokos…" Her last note to her husband asked him to care for their children — one four years old, the other a few months old.

A mother of two, aged 27, who shielded her priest with her own body and received the blow meant for him.

Glorified as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Church of the True Greek Orthodox Christians of Greece, September 6/19, 2014.

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St. Nektarios Orthodox Parish · Diocese of Richmond, UK

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