Eastern Orthodox spirituality

ritual blessing

Veneration (; ) is the practice of honoring people and articles of religious significance, for example, the veneration of saints and the veneration of relics. thumb|A statue of Conrad of Piacenza in a niche in the side wall of [[Noto Cathedral, Sicily. The cathedral houses the relics of the patron saint of Noto.]] To venerate a saint is to honour a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness. Angels are shown similar veneration in many religions. Veneration of saints is practiced, formally or informally, by adherents of some branches of all major religions, i

Eastern Orthodox symbol of Resurrection

thumb|400px|Moravians performing proskynesis during [[Christian worship in 1735]]

1884 novel by unknown author

book by Johannes Climacus

thumb The Kollyvades () were the members of a movement within the Eastern Orthodox Church that began in the second half of the eighteenth century among the monastic community of Mount Athos, which was concerned with the restoration of traditional practices and opposition to unwarranted innovations, and which turned unexpectedly into a movement of spiritual regeneration. As Metropolitan Kallistos Ware succinctly points out: