Romanian commemorative stamp honors 100th anniversary of repose of St. Nektarios of Aegina

Source: Romfilatelia

February 14, 2020

    

Romfilatelia introduced into circulation on Friday, February 14, postage stamps issue entitled 100 years since the passing into eternity of the Holy Hierarch Nektarios from Aegina.

... Those seeking peace and healing can venerate the relics of St. Nektarios at Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest, where there is a fragment donated in 2002 by a Greek archbishop and kept in a reliquary within a canopy.

... The icon of the Holy Hierarch of Aegina reproduced on the homage postage stamp is part of the patrimony of the Radu Voda Monastery with the dedications of the Holy Trinity and the Holy Hierarch Nektarios of Aegina.

... Read the rest at Romfilatelia.

2/17/2020

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