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Your answer was: St Nilus. |
Answer: The Abbey of St Nilus in Grottaferrata, only a few kilometers from Rome, was built half a century after the East-West Schism (1054) from which the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church would emerge. It is also known as the Greek Abbey of San Nilo. St Nilus founded it in 1004 over the ruins of an ancient Roman villa. Born in 910 in then-Byzantine Calabria, Nilus came from a Greek family and followed the Greek rite; he is now the patron saint of Grottaferrata, and in the Museum of the Abbey his portrait is frescoed on one of the doors that protected the image of the Blessed Virgin, which dates back to the 10th-11th century and is now kept in the church. The Abbey has always been run by the Basilian Monks, who belong to the Eastern Catholic Church and follow the rule of Saint Basil the Great, a theologian who lived in the 4th century and was bishop of Caesarea, in Cappadocia. 'Grottaferrata' on en.Wikipedia.org MILLENARY OF THE ABBEY OF ST NILUS AT GROTTAFERRATA POSTCARDS (Details of a XVII Century splendid stole used exclusively in Greek-Orthodox liturgy) 
Abbey of St Nilus in Grottaferrata Christ in Glory The Nativity 
The Crucifixion The Resurrection All Saints  P153-P157 (2004) |
