{"id":180714,"date":"2017-10-31T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=180714"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:28:19","slug":"patriarch-ilia-proposes-building-seminary-where-relics-of-st-maximus-the-confessor-repose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-ilia-proposes-building-seminary-where-relics-of-st-maximus-the-confessor-repose\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Ilia proposes building seminary where relics of St. Maximus the Confessor Repose"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>According to His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia, he has spent a lot of time contemplating the idea of building a seminary and hotel in Lechkumi in northwestern Georgia, where the relics of St. Maximus the Confessor are kept, to help increase the number of foreign visitors coming to the area to venerate the holy places and objects, reports\u00a0Information Agency <em>Pirweli<\/em> from Tbilisi, quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/orthochristian.com\/107558.html\">orthochristian.com<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" data-enum=\"p3\" data-field=\"paragraph\">\u201cThere are few spiritual figures who have left such an indelible trace in the Christian world as has St. Maximus the Confessor,\u201d His Beatitude stated on the \u201cPublic Broadcaster\u201d show.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/hb-ilia-ii-of-georgia-let-us-become-worthy-of-being-called-the-successors-of-those-who-accepted-their-martyrdom-in-the-period-of-the-atheist-regime\/\">HB Ilia II: Let us become worthy of being called the successors of those who accepted their martyrdom in the period of the Atheist regime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" data-enum=\"p4\" data-field=\"paragraph\">St. Maximus\u2019 relics were uncovered in Georgia in 2010. Their authenticity was confirmed after several years of analysis and announced at the\u00a0Fifth International Theological Conference\u00a0held in Tbilisi in 2015, which gathered scientists, researchers, and Church figures from Serbia, Greece, Russia, the UK and Australia to discuss the life and activities of St. Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-c. 662; feast: January 21, August 13).<\/p>\n<p>St. Maximus was persecuted by Byzantine Emperor Constans II, undergoing torture and being exiled, with two disciples, to Western Georgia, where he was buried in the city of Tsagrei, the regional center of the historical region of Lechkhumi.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <em><strong>Basilica.ro<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia, he has spent a lot of time contemplating the idea of building a seminary and hotel in Lechkumi in northwestern Georgia, where the relics of St. Maximus the Confessor are kept, to help increase the number of foreign visitors coming to the area to venerate the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":180715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1823,12546,12560,3919,10386,10705,12562,10457,1824],"class_list":["post-180714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-georgia","tag-hb-ilia-ii","tag-lechkumi","tag-orthodox-church-of-georgia","tag-orthodox-news","tag-religious-news","tag-seminary","tag-st-maximus-the-confessor","tag-tbilisi"],"better_featured_image":{"id":180715,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":792,"file":"2017\/10\/Sfantul-Maxim-Marturisitorul-1.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Sfantul-Maxim-Marturisitorul-1-890x688.jpg","width":890,"height":688,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sfantul-Maxim-Marturisitorul-1-890x688.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Sfantul-Maxim-Marturisitorul-1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sfantul-Maxim-Marturisitorul-1-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Robert Nicolae","camera":"NIKON D5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1505991651","copyright":"Agentia de stiri Basilica","focal_length":"155","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.003125","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":180714,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sfantul-Maxim-Marturisitorul-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180714\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=180714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180714\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180715\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=180714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=180714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=180714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}