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	Church of the Holy Apostles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The church was dedicated to the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and it was the Emperor's intention to gather relics of all the Apostles in the church.
		The church was renovated and probably enlarged in the 9th century by the Emperor Basil I.
		Nicholas Mesarites, Ekphrasis on the Church of the Holy Apostles
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Apostles (1022 words)

	Holy Water
		The Church and her clergy are "all things to all men, that they may gain all for Christ," and she has often found that it was well to take what was praiseworthy in other forms of worship and adapt it to her own purposes, for the sanctification of her children....
		By the power of the Holy Spirit give to this water the grace of your Son, so that in the sacrament of baptism all those whom you have created in your likeness may be cleansed from sin and rise to a new birth of innocence by water and the Holy Spirit.
		Holy water is water blessed by the priest with solemn prayer to beg God's blessing on those who use it, and protection from the powers of darkness.
	landru.i-link-2.net /shnyves/holy_water2.htm (2079 words)

	Holy Cross Orthodox Church - About the Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The government of the Church was recognizably one everywhere, and this One Church was the Orthodox Church.
		A cardinal, sent by the Pope, slapped a document on the altar of the Church of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople during the Sunday worship, excommunicating the Patriarch of Constantinople from the Church.
		That original Church, the Church of Peter, Paul, and the apostles-despite persecution, political oppression, and desertion on certain of its flanks--miraculously carries on today the same faith and life of the Church of the New Testament.
	www.holycrossdaytona.org /AboutOrthodoxChurch.html (4470 words)

	Transfiguration of Christ Greek Orthodox Community: About Our Church - History & Interior
		In 1997, the new holy vessels of the church were donated by members of the parish and special interior lights were placed for the purpose of accentuating the faces of the saints depicted and the different colors of their garments.
		To the left and right of the church, on either side of these sections, on the same level with the facade of the balcony, there are eight frescoes, four on each side, with scenes from the twelve major feasts of the year.
		Specifically, the silver hand-crafted holy vessels, of the first church of the community, are housed in the glass case in the Museum of Greek Heritage, and the remaining newer ones are held in the museum's display case, for security purposes.
	www.transfigurationofchrist.org /church.htm (3782 words)

	The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross - Studies in the Faith
		The building of this Church was commissioned by Constantine himself, however, after a fire destroyed much of the church upon the exile of Saint John Chrysostom by Empress Eudoxia, the church was rebuilt by Emperor Justinian.
		Although we find ourselves physically in different places in the Church structure, it is together, with one voice, and in one spirit that the clergy, the laity, the saints, and the hosts of angels worship the Lord in His Holy House.
		Later on in the church's development the pulpit was attached to a column on the north side of the church.
	www.goholycross.org /studies/studies_house.html (3805 words)

	Church of the Holy Apostles
		The Episcopal Church is the American province of the Anglican Communion, a family of churches who trace their ecclesiastical origins to the Church of England.
		The foundation of faith in The Episcopal Church is often described using the image of a Three-legged stool.
		In The Episcopal Church, special emphasis is given to the Tradition embodied in the early Church Fathers and the Councils of the Church, including the Council of Nicea in A.D. Nicea formulated the bulk of the Nicene Creed, which we confess at Holy Eucharist each week.
	www.churchoftheholyapostles.net /faith.asp (511 words)

	History of the Orthodox Church
		The Church, arguably, could no longer be ignored - numerically or ideologically; hence the legal recognition of Christianity by the Emperor Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century (312), and its subsequent recognition as the official religion of the empire by the end, under Theodosius (392).
		Unlike the Copts or Armenians who broke from the Church in the fifth century and established ethnic churches at the cost of their universality and catholicity, the eastern and western parts of the Church remained loyal to the faith and authority of the seven ecumenical councils.
		The Church of Serbia, which had lost its patriarchate in the Turkish period, became autocephalous in 1879, and its primate was recognized as patriarch by Constantinople in 1922.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article7053.asp (8510 words)

	History of Art: Byzantine Art-Hagia Sophia
		In the 11th and 12th centuries, a number of cruciform churches were built, their domes supported by four columns or by two columns and two pilasters.
		Churches on the inscribed-cross model, with a central dome and four smaller domes at the tips of the arms, were built as far afield as Epirus and Macedonia.
		The Church of the Holy Wisdom, commonly known as Hagia Sophia in English, is a former Greek Orthodox church converted to a mosque, in Istanbul (Constantinople).
	www.all-art.org /history136-3.html (719 words)

	The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross - Studies in the Faith
		As the approximate center of the church, four gigantic columns rise up in the shape of a quadrangle, and on these rests a marvelous dome of the kind that exists nowhere else in the world.
		In the ancient Church and even during the Turkish occupation of Greece, the Narthex was used a setting for religious education of the youth.
		Often styled in the shape of the church structure, it houses the reserve gifts of the body and blood of Christ for the sick and the dying.
	www.goholycross.org /studies/studies_houseofworship.html (1202 words)

	The Secret key to the Dome of the Rock
		This small church was later enlarged probably in the fifth century to become a major church in Jerusalem called "The Church of the Holy Wisdom." This church is described very well (and accurately) in a sixth century work written by the Piacenza Pilgrim.
		This Church of the Holy Wisdom (which the Pilgrim had just described) was built over "the oblong stone" which the people thought had the footprints of Jesus embedded in it.
		What he did was to rebuild in the exact spot and in the precise form "The Church of the Holy Wisdom" that had been destroyed by the Persians and Jews in 614 A.D. (and he desired it to have as much architectural grandeur as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre).
	askelm.com /temple/t991001.htm (4598 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Church: Saint Sophia)
		In the conch of the alter, under a dome dominated by a huge figure of Christ and the Archangels, was a sixteen-foot-high image of the Virgin, set against a shimmering background of golden mosaics.
		Little of the early church is visible from the exterior of the current church, but the interior still has its Byzantine character.
		Circa 1045-62: A Saint Sophia church was built by Yaroslav or Vladimir Yaroslavich to replace the one that had burned.
	members.aol.com /bksmyre/Church_Saint_Sophia.html (1402 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		One of the most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the Church of the Holy Wisdom in former Constantinople—the image of Christ on the walls of the upper southern gallery.
		Based on the Orthodox Church, it was primarily seen in the painting of icons and in church decorations, frescoes, and mosaics.
		As a matter of fact, however, although the Church is "eastern" by virtue of its geography, in its theology and tradition it is Catholic and Orthodox.
	www.lycos.com /info/byzantine-art--byzantine-church.html (476 words)

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		The chief church in this category was St. Accius, a Cappadocian soldier who had been executed at Byzantium in the early 300's and was venerated as one of the leading martyrs who had suffered on the site of the future Constantinople.
		They were exposed for a time in the church of the Holy Wisdom, then buried in that of the Apostles.
		Later, when confronted with the possibility that he might have a unified church on his hands, Innocent acquiesced and went along with the reality that what was done was done.
	www.lycos.com /info/constantinople--greek-church.html (587 words)

	The Wisdom of Mother Church (This Rock: January 2002)
		In Holy Mother Church is the seed of spiritual life, given to her when Christ breathed on his apostles on Easter Sunday night, and through his commission to spread the gospel throughout the world.
		Holy Mother Church loves this child as surely as a natural mother loves the child who comes from her own womb.
		It is the wisdom of Holy Mother Church that demands this.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/2002/0201fea2.asp (1399 words)

	The question of the Holy Places
		The three basilicas at the Holy Sepulchre, Bethlehem and the Mount of Olives were practically completed when the Pilgrim of Bordeaux visited Palestine in 333, and the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre was dedicated in the presence of over 300 bishops in September 336.
		In 1009 the Caliph Hakim rigorously persecuted the Christians, but his son was tolerant and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was rebuilt by the Patriarch Nicephorus, the Emperor Constantine X Monomachus contributing much of the expenses.
		On July 16, 1064 the papal legates laid upon the Altar of the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople the Papal bull of excommunication confirming the division between the eastern and western church.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/cust/TSstatus.html (3287 words)

	Hagia Sophia - Mother of Churches
		Hagia Sophia or Holy Wisdom is the mother church of all Eastern Christians of the Byzantine liturgical tradition both Orthodox and Greek Catholic.
		That expectation however was disappointed when in later years earthquakes destroyed parts of the church and dome, requiring massive repairs including the construction of large buttresses to support the walls which in turn held up the dome.
		In its heyday as the Imperial church, Hagia Sophia was served by 80 priests, 150 deacons, 60 subdeacons, 160 readers, 25 cantors and 75 doorkeepers.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/hagiasophia.htm (1441 words)

	Our Church Home Holy Communion.org
		Our mission at Church of the Holy Communion centers on spiritual growth that leads to personal and social transformation.
		The Church of the Holy Communion is one of the largest and strongest parishes of The Diocese of West Tennessee.
		Church of the Holy Communion is a community of faith that includes more than 1,800 individuals.
	www.holycommunion.org /CHCHome.htm (371 words)

	Procopius: The description of the Hagia Sophia, 537 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The church is singularly full of light and sunshine; you would declare that the place is not lighted by the sun from without, but that the rays are produced within itself, such an abundance of light is poured into this church....
		All these parts surprisingly joined to one another in the air, suspended one from another, and resting only on that which is next to them, form the work into one admirably harmonious whole, which spectators do not dwell upon for long in the mass, as each individual part attracts the eye to itself.
		No one ever became weary of this spectacle, but those who are in the church delight in what they see, and, when they leave, magnify it in their talk.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/bible/procopius.stm (983 words)

	The Holy Eucharist
		The Eucharist is the most distinctive event of Orthodox worship because in it the Church gathers to remember and celebrate the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ and, thereby, to participate in the mystery of Salvation.
		Therefore, the Eucharist is truly the center of the life of the Church and the principal means of spiritual development, both for the individual Christian and the Church as a whole.
		In the early Church, only those who were baptized and not in a state of sin were permitted to remain for this most solemn part of the Liturgy.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article7077.asp (1709 words)

	Orthodox Saints. Lives. St. Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Joseph erected a church dedicated to Holy Hierarch Nicholas, and to it brought the relics of Venerable Sts.
		May thy heart be a temple of the Holy Spirit, and may thy hymns delight all the world.” After that miraculous apparition, St. Joseph composed the canon to Holy Apostle Bartholomew.
		In 842, during the reign of the Holy Empress Theodora (commemorated 11 February), who restored the Orthodox veneration of Holy Icons, St. Joseph was appointed to be keeper of the Sacred Vessels in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople.
	www.stjohndc.org /russian/saints/e_0104c.htm (1070 words)

	HAGIA SOPHIA: Church of Holy Wisdom, Constantinople - NEW BYZANTIUM
		The Crusades, which had originally been intended to liberate the holy land from the Muslims, savagely turned against the Christian East and invaded Constantinople in 1204.
		Myths have been told of the Priest who was taken into the walls of the Great Church so the Turks would not profane or desecrate the Eucharist.
		That limit is the Western Hemisphere as a whole, and in particular the coast of California near San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge where the two groups converged as they approached from the North and from the South.
	www.new-byzantium.org /KrkstsCnstpl.html (2170 words)

	About Hagia Sophia - the Church of Holy Wisdom
		This church burned in 404 and was rebuilt by the Emperor Theodosius II in 415.
		The Deesis mosaic was a later addition of the 12-13th centuries to the upper South Gallery of the Church.
		During Byzantine times this area of the church was reserved for members of the Imperial family and the court who viewed the liturgy from this easternmost bay of the church.
	www.pallasweb.com /deesis/hagiasophia.html (562 words)

	Holy Ghost Church
		If you are new to Holy Ghost, you must be a registered and participating member of the church for three months before we will formally discuss your wedding plans.
		Secular studies, confirming the wisdom of the teaching of Jesus, show that cohabitation before marriage drastically increases instances of infidelity and divorce.
		Free parking for the church is available on Saturdays in the lot on the corner of 19th and Welton Streets.
	www.holyghostchurch.info /weddings/guidelines.html (1775 words)

	VDH's Private Papers::Holy Wisdom?
		Somehow it’s forgotten that the Holy Land was Greco-Roman and Hebraic and Christian for centuries before the armies of Allah destroyed that cultural continuity and imposed a new culture and religion at the point of a sword.
		In the church of St. Saviour in Chora the mosaics and frescoes were miraculously spared, but the Empire’s holiest icon, the Virgin Hodegetria, said to have been painted by St. Luke himself, was hacked into four pieces and destroyed.
		The most hideous scenes of all, however, were enacted in the church of the Holy Wisdom.
	www.victorhanson.com /articles/thornton120706PF.html (987 words)

	Church Bulletin - March 4, 2001
		One of the striking characteristics of our Holy Orthodox Church is the special devotion given to the sacred images of our Lord.
		In the 8th century, however, the Church became embroiled in a fierce controversy over whether it was proper to treat icons in such a special way.
		Led by the Emperor Leo, the iconoclasts viewed such devotion as "pagan." Icons were removed from churches and all public places.
	www.saintnicholas.org /gl-march-04-2001.htm (255 words)

	The Byzantine Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The present-day influence of the Orthodox Church encompasses the territories associated with the former Byzantine and Russian empires: Eastern Europe, Asia (Russia/Siberia), parts of the Middle East and Africa.
		The sacking of the Church of Holy Wisdom and establishment of the Latin Empire in 1204 is viewed with some rancor to the present day.
		The Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America (formerly connected with the Vicar Bishop of the (Western) Orthodox Church of France-ECOF), all have Western Rite parishes.
	members.aol.com /byzruth/index.htm (2195 words)

	Ohrid
		The cathedral church of Sveta Sofija (The Holy Wisdom), which was the seat of the Archbishopric of Ohrid for several centuries is the oldest surviving church in Ohrid.
		The church was reconstructed and decorated again in the middle of 11th century at the time of Archbishop Leo.
		The frescoes in the main body of the church and in the narthex were whitewashed and a minaret was built on the top of one of the cupolas.
	www.b-info.com /places/Macedonia/republic/images/citiesOhridSofia.shtml (392 words)

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