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The Analavos of the Great Schema ( Greek: Ανάλαβος του Μεγαλοσχήμου) is a distinctive vestment worn only by the highest degree of monastics in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, emblematic of their monastic habit. It is a symbol of their total devotion to the cross and to the Orthodox Faith, and is adorned with the ...
Our Lady of El Natour, Anfeh. Our Lady of Nourieh, Lebanon. Saint Catherine Monastery, Achrafieh. Saint Dimitrios Monastery, Kousba. Saint George Monastery, Deir el-Harf. Saint George Monastery, Amyoun. Saint Jacob Monastery, Deddeh. Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Monastery, Anfeh. Saint Simon Monastery, Chekka.
The Analavos, worn by Orthodox monks and nuns of the Great Schema. The Eastern Orthodox Church does not have distinct religious orders such as those in the Catholic Church. The habit (Greek: Σχήμα, romanized: Schēma) is essentially the same throughout the world. The normal monastic color is black, symbolic of repentance and simplicity.
Greek Orthodox clergyman wearing clerical kalimavkion. A kalimavkion (Greek: καλυμμαύχιον), kalymmavchi (καλυμμαύχι), or, by metathesis of the word's internal syllables, kamilavka (Russian: Камила́вка, romanized: Kamilávka), is a clerical headdress worn by Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic monks (in which case it is black) or awarded to clergy (in which ...
St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Monastery, Washington, Texas. Abbess Paraskevi. Spiritual Father: Elder Ephraim of Arizona. All Saints Greek Orthodox Monastery, Calverton, Long Island, New York. Abbess Eisodia. Paracletos Greek Orthodox Monastery, Abbeville, South Carolina. Abbess Pavlina. Georgian Orthodox Church Male
Mantle (monastic vesture) Bishop Mercurius of Zaraysk wearing the episcopal mantle ( St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Manhattan ). A mantle ( Koinē Greek: μανδύας, romanized: mandyas; Church Slavonic: мантия, romanized: mantiya) is an ecclesiastical garment in the form of a very full cape that extends to the floor, joined ...
Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (Greek: Συμεών ό Στυλίτης; Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܐ, romanized: Šimʕun dʼAstˁonā; Arabic: سمعان العمودي, romanized: Simʿān al-ʿAmūdī c. 390 – 2 September 459) was a Syrian Christian ascetic, who achieved notability by living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo (in modern Syria).
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks in Greece who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, [4] [5] as well as the combined rights of a decentralized administration, a region and a municipality, with a territory encompassing the distal part ...