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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK – A new book, The Virgin Mary in Holy Icons and Stories by Presbytera Athanasia Papademetriou, has just been published. This unique and beautiful hardcover book provides a deep understanding of the Virgin Mary and her miracle-working icons through fascinating stories and 80 full-color icons. The book provides details from the life of the Virgin Mary, also called the Panagia or Theotokos, and how she was present in the life of her son Jesus Christ. It also presents many well-known miracle-working icons of the Virgin Mary in Greece, Mount Athos, the United States, and around the world. It is intended to serve as both a devotional and instructional book for adults and children alike. For more information or to order the book, please visit: www.somersethallpress.com. For larger orders, please write to [email protected].
Our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew wrote in the Foreword: “The Virgin Mary in Holy Icons and Stories is a valuable resource of Marian devotion in the Iconography of the Holy Church, written in English for Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike, and we warmly encourage the reader to contemplate on the beauty presented in these Holy Icons.” In addition, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, Rev. Alkiviadis C. Calivas, V. Rev. Arch. Maximos Constas, and V. Rev. Anton C. Vrame have all highly praised the book.
To Order:
Somerset Hall Press
Attn: Dean Papademetriou
416 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 612
Boston, MA 02215
Source: goarch.org
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived.
DEERFIELD, IL – The Hellenic American Academy (HAA) Drama Club presents a theatrical comedy ‘Θα Φάμε τα Μουστάκια Μας’ (‘We’ll Eat Our Mustaches’) by Georgia Paraskeva, on Friday, May 10, 7 PM, and Saturday, May 11, 1:30 PM, at HAA, 445 Pine Street in Deerfield.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother's womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died, her uncle said Friday.
The students at Columbia University who inspired pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country dug in at their encampment for the 10th day Friday as administrators and police at campuses from California to Connecticut wrestled with how to address protests that have seen scuffles with police and hundreds of arrests.