The Panagia and Medicine: The Expectation of a Miracle

Panagia Giatraina

By Alexander Giatzidi, M.D.

For Hellenism, August is the month of the Panagia. According to Greek Christian tradition, the person of the Panagia is closely linked with the expectation of the healing of a person from human pathologies.

Movie Trailer: "Luka" (a 2013 film about St. Luke the Surgeon of Simferopol)

Film: "Лука" (Luka)

Year: 2013 (to be released in 2014)

Running time: 110 minutes

Director: Oleg Sytnik

Cast: Vitaly Bezrukov (Luke), Ekaterina Guseva, Andrew Saminin, Alexander Jacko, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Alex Shevchenkov

Manufacturer: "Patriot Film" (Ukraine, Belarus), with the support of the State Agency of Ukraine for movies and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus

Movie site: http://www.luka-film.com/

National Healthcare and the Church-State Relationship in Byzantium

By John Sanidopoulos

July 25, 2009

"Dr. Miller is a learned and enterprising historian with a fascinating theme. He shows beyond a doubt that the Western hospital tradition goes back to the early Byzantine Empire in the fourth century." -- Medical History

Fr. John Romanides writes the following about the relationship between Church and State in the Roman Empire following the conversion to Christianity of Emperor Constantine the Great: