Age
0+
Group size
1-5
Transport
On foot
Language
English
Duration
2 hours
About this experience
After the split of the Christian religion into Catholicism and Orthodoxy, for decades the people of Genoa have been striving to maintain the unity of the two churches. For experienced travelers and pilgrims, I offer an impressive tour of the religious attributes of Orthodoxy in the Genoese churches and learn about their significance.
Program
- Cathedral of St. Lawrence and its treasury: Rare relics of the museum: The relics of St. John the Baptist. The dish on which the head of St. John the Baptist falls after its decapitation. Reliquary with the hair of the Virgin Mary. Thorn from the crown of thorns of Christ. "Sacred Catino" - the sacred cup of the 1st century Grail used by Christ on the day of the Last Supper.
- Chapel of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, where there is a shrine with his relics. Images of St. Nicholas and St. Lawrence. Icons of the Smolensk Mother of God Odigitria and the Orthodox Mother of God "The Tender Feeling", Byzantine painting "The Judgment of the Lord."
- Basilica of St. Mary of the Castle, (IX) early Romanesque architecture with its rarest Flemish painting frescoes and a museum that preserved as relics of St. Nicodemus, as well as Orthodox icons given as a gift by Russian nobles residing in the Liguria region.
- Armenian Church of St. Apostle Bartholomew. Here is kept the basis of Christian iconography - the acheiropoieton image of Jesus Christ from Edessa. By tradition, this is the most ancient image of Jesus, which people call the Acheiropoieton Savior and consider it the true portrait of the Redeemer.
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