St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Las Vegas, NV
Orthros & Divine Liturgy for St. Nectarios the Wonderworker of Aegina
Thu, Nov 09
|St. John the Baptist GOC
This is a most beloved "Saint of our Century" who reposed in 1920 in Greece and is one of the most Job-like examples of holiness in his patient endurance of suffering.
Time & Location
Nov 09, 2023, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
St. John the Baptist GOC, 5300 El Camino Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89118, USA
About The Event
Saint Nektarius was born in Selyvria of Thrace on October 1, 1846. After putting himself through school in Constantinople with much hard labour, he became a monk on Chios in 1876, receiving the monastic name of Lazarus; because of his virtue, a year later he was ordained deacon, receiving the new name of Nektarius. Under the patronage of Patriarch Sophronius of Alexandria, Nektarius went to Athens to study in 1882; completing his theological studies in 1885, he went to Alexandria, where Patriarch Sophronius ordained him priest on March 23, 1886 in the Cathedral of Saint Sabbas, and in August of the same year, in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Cairo, made him Archimandrite. Archimandrite Nektarius showed much zeal both for preaching the word of God, and for the beauty of God's house. He greatly beautified the Church of Saint Nicholas in Cairo, and years later, when Nektarius was in…