Shrines To The Virgin Mary - Greece

Greece

  • Our Lady of Tinos, Tinos Island, Greece's patron saint.
  • Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos, Greece,the garden of the Mother of God being out of bounds to all other women.

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Famous quotes containing the word greece:

    “All that grave weight of America
    Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
    The future in ruins!”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

    “It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)