Homily at the Remembrance of Saint Apostle Andrew
[November 30, 2011]
Beloved brothers and sisters into the Lord,
On the Evangelizer of Romanians, the Apostle Andrew, we have him at heart…but he is not only of ours.
Because he preached in Bithynia, ie from Hrisopolis and until Nicomedia and Nicaea, in the parties of the Black Sea [and in Dobrogea he lived in a cave], in Sevastopol and the Bosphorus, in Kherson, in Russia to the Dnieper, and then in the Mountains of the Kiev, in Chalcedon and Byzantium, in Thrace, Macedonia and Thessaloniki, in Tessalia, Farsala, Hellas, Zitunion, Achaia, Paleapatra…and dies crucified, on a X-shaped cross, in Patras, on November 30, in the 60th year after Christ.
And, as he preached in many parts, and his body was divided into many parts of the world…his Holy Relics are kept in Patras, Greece [his head], in Scotland, at Edinburgh, in the Holy Mountain Athos, in Russia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Romania [Galați and Constanța], in Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, France, the Basque Country, Malta, Hong Kong… Continuă să citești →
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