/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif / 際際滷Share feed for 際際滷shows by User: ostapleton1 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-ostapleton1-48x48.jpg?cb=1523410763 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another." "The domed interior swallows up the day. Here, where to light a candle is to pray, The candle flame shows up the almond eyes of local saints who view with no suprise their martyrdoms depicted upon walls on which the filtered daylight faintly falls... Of much kissed ikons, dating from, perhaps the fourteenth century. Thus vigorously does the old tree grow, by persecuation pruned, watered with blood, it's living roots deep in pre-Christian mud. It needs no bureaucratical protection. It is its own perpetual resurection..." John Betjeman on what Orthodox Christians hold precious