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CATHOLIC
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Greek
church
This iconostase(partition), intended initially for the convent
of Grotta Ferrata, close to Rome, is a gift of the Congregation
of Propaganda to the Colony. It dates back to 1886. Out of
the two side niches, that of the right-hand side is dedicated
to the "Panaghia" or "All-Holy", the master
of the congreganists of the Blessed Virgin, and that of the
left to Saint Spiridion, owner of the Brotherhood of the same
name, to which all the Greek since their birth and more one
third of the Latin population are registered. For the offices
and ceremonies, one almost completely follows the rite of
Athens and Constantinople, just like the Greek-catholics colonies
of Paris, Lyon, and Marseilles. The old Greek remains the
liturgical language, while the spoken modern Greek tends more
and more to disappear from the conversation. What facilitates
to the faithful the reading and the intelligence of the prayers,
it is that they have between the hands a missal containing
the original text in Latin characters with the French translation
in glance.
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