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Updated: July 12, 2025
"They are like to carry it to blows, O Serenity." "Fear not, my son, God is here, and He is separating the wheat from the chaff." "But the blood shed will be on my conscience, and the Panagia" The aged Prelate was inflexible. "Nay, nay, not yet! They are Greeks. Let them have it out. The day is young; and how often is shame the miraculous parent of repentance."
Then there was an outburst of many voices: "The Panagia! The Panagia!" The feeling this time was reactionary. "O Blessed Madonna! Guardian of Constantinople! Mother of God! Christ is here! Hosannas to the Son and to the Immaculate Mother!"
With no thought of self, no consciousness but of duty to be done, trusting in God, he stood up, pushed gently through the kneeling boys and guardians of the Panagia, and took position where all eyes could look at the Blessed Mother slightly above him, and then to himself, in such seeming the very Son.
Even the very timid took heart, and went about thanking God and the Panagia Blachernitissa. And here and there the monks passed, sleek and blithe, and complacently twirling the Greek crosses at the whip-ends of their rosaries of polished horn buttons large as walnuts, saying: "The danger is gone. See what it is to have faith!
He recognized it instantly, and remembered it as full of inestimable relics amongst them the Himation, considered indestructible; the Holy Cross which Heraclius, in the year 635, had brought from Jerusalem, and delivered to Sergius; and the Panagia Blachernitissa, or All Holy Banner of the Image of the Virgin.
The peristyle was walled up, and arches were cut through the walls of the cella, exactly as in the great church of Syracuse. Saint Gregory of Girgenti plays no such part in the world's history as was played by the Panagia of Syracuse; we may therefore be more inclined to extend some mercy to the Bourbon king who set free the columns as we now see them.
See M. Dideron's admirably written introduction to his Iconographie Chretienne, p. 7: "Un de mes compagnons s'etonnait de re trouver a la Panagia de St. Luc, le saint Jean Chrysostome qu'il avait dessine dans le baptistere de St. Marc, a Venise.
You might also have observed, had it not been so dark, a figure of Our Lady and Child carved and gilt on the bow of the hooker. It was probably that of the Basque Notre Dame, a sort of Panagia of the old Cantabri. Under this image, which occupied the position of a figurehead, was a lantern, which at this moment was not lighted an excess of caution which implied an extreme desire of concealment.
Panagia mou! he is capable of every treachery! If he were not within " He indicated the fortress with a scowl of hatred, then made a motion which seemed to include the entire city and plant the people, resolute, before the windows of the Queen. "And the Governor of Famagosta?"
The movement of the candle and censer bearers outside the gate forced Sergius nearer it; so when the Panagia was brought to a rest, he, being much taller than its guardians, became an object of general observation, and wishing to escape it if possible, he took off his high hat; whereupon his hair, parted in the middle, dropped down his neck and back fair and shining in the down-beating light.
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