51 x 40 cm. (20.1 x 15.7 in.) ...

Here is part of the conclusion of the oldest surviving Greek homily for the Feast of the Dormition ... Mary, the Mother of God and ever-virgin, and placed it in a new tomb, in the place the ...

The spiritual powers receive her with honors due to God, and she who is truly the mother of Life departs unto life, the lamp of Light which no man can approach, the salvation of the faithful and the ...

But as Mother of the living God, it is also right that she should ... not live herself for endless ages? (from On the Dormition of Mary, p.206) Embedded activists are “burrowing in” to career ...

in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death.