User:Ixthis888

Glory to God for all things!

Overview

• My name is Vasiliki
• I am a Greek Orthodox Christian from Melbourne, Australia.
• I have travelled to Jerusalem (1997) and have visited many holy sites in Greece (1984, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2007).
• I love to read Orthodox based books.
• I am very passionate about "The Truth".

I have been hoping to contribute to a positive Orthodox project for a while and I hope to contribute to this site based on my Greek Orthodox background. I will endeavour to keep my articles neutral but if I am posting a specific Greek Saint (born and bred in Greece) ... I am sure to put a bit of 'salsa' to the article ..

New Contributions to OrthodoxWiki

My current goal (Feb/March 2008) is to clean up and improve the many articles I have created in the Theotokonymia section and Saints section before I go ahead and create anything more ... its terrible I didnt do it right from the start but I was new and enthusiastic so I have to rectify this ... I have many people to thank for assisting me in the editing of many of the pages that are starting to come together including Magda, Pistevo and Wsk - these are the 3 key guys always on my case and ficing up my incredibly awful grammar!! :-)

My two favourite pages (well, they will be by the time I am done with them) because both of these icons mean SO much to me ...well, Archangem Michael is close to my heart - he is VERY active in the church and those who have been blessed to have the 'biggy' for even a small amount of time in there life know how wonderful his miracles are!

• Archangel Michael of Mantamados - my favourite Orthodox topic is Arch Michael!
• Archangel Michael of Panormitis

My other favourite topic is the Virgin Mary ... there are SO many interesting versions of her through the icons ... that it would be a shame to not list these in an Encyclopedic fashion ...

Theotokonymia (see also Icons of the Theotokos)

• Panagia Axion Esti - the official icon representing Mount Athos
• Panagia Athonitissa
• Panagia Blachernitissa
• Panagia Chryssopodaritissa
• Panaghia Galaktotrofoussa
• Panagia Glykophilousa
• Panagia Gorgoepikoos
• Panagia Hodegetria
• Panagia Ierosolymitissa (Jerusalem) - The icon at the tomb of the most Holy Virgin Mary
• Panagia Kamariani - original article to the Internet as a whole (needs lots of work since no documented history exists anywhere)
• Panagia the Life Giving Spring - ΖΩΟΔΟΧΟΥ ΠΗΓΗΣ
• Panagia Pantanassa
• Panagia Paramythea
• Panagia Pelagonitissa
• Panagia Phaneromene
• Panagia Platytera
• Panagia Portaitissa (Mount Athos) - This most popular icon from Mount Athos
• Panagia Prousiotissa
• Panagia of Soumela (Pontos) - Painted by St Luke the Evangelist

Various Saints

• George of Symvoulas
• Hilarion of Meglin
• Olympia the Deaconess
• Phanourios
• Philotheos (Zervakos)
• Philothei of Athens
• Photine of Samaria
• Theodora of Thessalonica

Minor Contributions include:

• Demetrios of Thessaloniki
• Monastery of Gorgoepikoos (Geelong, Victoria)
• OrthodoxWiki:Articles from the DEC

What does IXTHIS mean?

IXTHIS is the Ancient Greek word for fish and was the image used to identify Christianity during the early years. If you were to use the letters of the Greek alphabet, each letter in the word 'Ixthis' represents:

I - (Isous) - Jesus

X - (Christos) - Christ

TH - (Theos) - God

I - (Ios) - Son

S - (Sotir) - Saviour

Simply put, Jesus Christ Son of God our Saviour.