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Editor:
These guys need a hand… send ‘em a fin (or two or three).
E-mail address:
saintraphaelchurch@yahoo.com
Snail-mail address:
Ss Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene Hellenic Orthodox Church
1010 Riviere Road
Palm Harbor FL 34683
USA
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Fire investigators from were on the scene of a church fire in Palm Harbor FL well into the afternoon Tuesday, looking for anything suspicious. For members of the Greek Orthodox parish as they prayed this morning, there was a feeling that a higher power had stepped in and taken control. The fire at Ss Raphael, Nicholas and Irene Hellenic Orthodox Church started sometime after 03.00 EDT. Carol Dyer, who was delivering papers for the Tampa Bay Times, spotted it. She told us, “I saw smoke coming out from the roof around the eaves”. Dyer immediately called 911, but took no credit, saying, “God orchestrated it. He had his hand on these people. He didn’t want their place to burn down”. Fire crews from Palm Harbor were on the scene within minutes, fighting a blaze that ripped its way through a kitchen and common area. The fire and heat, charring and melting, even caused a chimney to buckle 15 degrees.
However, for church members, the structure itself was secondary to what was inside. Elias Damianakis explained, “The concern is for the sacred objects in the church. We are one of the few parishes in the south that have relics of the Saints”. The relics, fragments of the bones of three saints, Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene, brought here in 2004 by the Archbishop of Greece, were all in a case behind a wall. The fire stopped just short of the wall. Irene Koulianos believes something kept the fire back. When asked if she thought it was the hand of God, she replied, “Absolutely”. On a morning where many would expect to see mourning, members outside the church did not. Irene said, “You witness miracles, what are you going to do? You just say thank God you can witness these things”. Therefore, they prayed to celebrate the divine, and to honour what they saw as divine intervention.
23 September 2014
ABC Action News/WFTS Tampa Bay
24 September 2014. Cossack Babai is Back at the Front in Novorossiya!
Tags: civil unrest, Novorossiya, patriotic, patriotism, political commentary, politics, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian Civil War, war and conflict
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Cossack Babai is back at the front in Novorossiya! Eat shit and die, Uniate suki!
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