Dionysios is the “saint” if the Greek island of Zakynthos. Once a year the islanders take the corpse out of the local Church. Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos was a 16th-century Orthodox Christian Archbishop of Aegina. He was born on the Greek island of Zakynthos in 1546. He is the patron saint of Zakynthos (sometimes called… Read More Parading the corpse of Saint Dionysios
St. Ephraim of Nea Makri believed to have lived from 1384 to 1426. Ephraim is venerated as a martyr and miracle-working saint by many Greek Orthodox Christians in Greece. His status as a saint is controversial, as there are no sources testifying to his existence as an historical person, living 20 kilometers east if Athens.… Read More The adorable “Holy” Ephraim of Greece
The silver casket with mummified body of Saint Gerasimos is paraded on the island of Kefalonia in Greece. The body of Saint Gerasimos (1506–1579) is at the monastery, made available for veneration as it has never decomposed. After his death, his body was buried twice and exhumed intact, thus leading the church to ordain… Read More Parading their “holy corpse” in Greece
In December 2014 Danish scientists exposed religious fraud. The skull inside the golden head of saint Pope Lucius is not the skull of the Pope. Director Per Kristian Madsen of the Danish National Museum has discovered a case of religious fraud. The skull inside the golden head presented as Pope Lucius the first, is not… Read More Honor false “holy skull” of Pope Lucius
The corpse of John Maximovitch is redressed by Russian Orthodox priests, living in America. John Maximovitch, or John of Shanghai and San Francisco died in 1966 in the city of Seattle. On October 13th 1993, Russian Orthodox priests exhumed Maximovitch from his grave in San Fransico. The Russians took his corpse out of the grave,… Read More Dressing corpses for their Christ
