Program
“Allow me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ”.
St Ignatius of Antioch
WEDNESDAY 7 september 2016
9:00 am
Introductory Remarks
ENZO BIANCHI, Prior of Bose
Blood of Martyrs, Seed of Communion
✠ YOUHANNA X, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East
The Witness and the Ministry of Communion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
✠ JOB OF TELMESSOS, Geneva
3:30 pm
The Spirit as Source and Support of the One Christian Witness
PANTELEIMON MANOUSSAKIS, Worcester MA
«Blessed are you when people persecute you on my account» (Mt 5,11).
Jesus’ Sayings about Persecution
EKATERINI TSALAMPOUNI, Thessaloniki
“We are All One in Christ”. Martyrdom and the Unity of the Church in St Ambrose and the Latin Fathers in the Fourth Century
GEORGIY ZAKHAROV, Moscow
THURSDAY 8 september 2016
9:00 am
“I am the wheat of God” (St Ignatius of Antioch). Eucharistic and Communional Dimensions of Martyrdom
ATHANASIOS PAPATHANASSIOU, Athens
The Liturgical Memory of Martyrs
✠ JERONIM OF JEGAR, Novi Sad
3:30 pm
Seeking Communion, Confessing the Truth. Maxim the Confessor and Pope Martin I
ANDREW LOUTH, Durham
Martyrs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century. The Butovo Polygon
KIRILL KALEDA, Moscow
Martyrdom and Communion in the 20th century – a Church of England Perspective
✠ JOHN STROYAN OF WARWICK, Coventry
FRIDAY 9 september 2016
9:00 am
The Testimony of Love and Mercy of St Elizabeth Feodorovna
LIDYA GOLOVKOVA, Moscow
A Community under Persecution. Father Alexander Glagolev (1872-1937)
KONSTANTIN SIGOV, Kiev
Twentieth-century Martyrology: the Orthodox Church of Georgia
TAMARA GRDZELIDZE, Rome
3:30 pm
Persecution for Christ’s Sake as the bond of Communion. The Monk Nicolae Steinhardt and his Diary of Happiness
BOGDAN TĂTARU-CAZABAN, Bucarest
Martyrs and Confessors in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church under Communism
DANIELA KALKANDJIEVA, Sofia
Martyrs as Witnesses of Communion in the Armenian Church
SHAHE ANANYAN, Etchmiadzin
SATURDAY 10 september 2016
9:00 am