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Ascension Convent. Coordinates: 55°45′9″N 37°37′13″E. Katholikon of Ascension Convent (1580s), from an early 19th-century drawing. Ascension Convent, known as the Starodevichy Convent or Old Maidens' Convent until 1817 ( Russian: Вознесенский монастырь, Voznesensky monastyr ' ), was an Orthodox nunnery in the ...
Across the street from the chapel is a Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Ascension with a small church built between 1987 and 1992. [17] [better source needed] South of the Ascension Chapel is the monastery containing the remains of the Constantinian Eleona Church and the 19th-century Church of the Pater Noster .
Monastery of St. Paisius, Safford, Arizona. Mother Michaila. Now under two jurisdictions, bishops Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America (ROCOR) and Maksim of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. St. Xenia Metochion Monastery, Indianapolis, Indiana. Nun Katherine, Superior.
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 story of the Ascension of our Lord, celebrated as one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church, is found in the book of the Acts of the Apostles 1:3-11. It is also mentioned in the Gospels of Mark (16:19) and Luke (24:50-53).
The Ascension Historical Society (AHS) is a ministry of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension in Oakland, CA. The Historical Society was created in 1989 by Mary K. Mousalimas as a means of preserving the history of the church since its beginning in 1917.
Jun 1, 2014 · Jesus supposedly sat on a stone now located in a Greek Orthodox Convent, and slept on the ground now located within a Franciscan Church. Behind the latter is the highly venerated Tomb of Lazarus , though many believe this is simply where he was interred before his resurrection, and that the true tomb is that which is located in the city of ...
