Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this recording, Archimandrite Athanasios Mytilinaios (1927-2006), answers the question: "Why does the Virgin Mary seem to show so much favor to Greece when she was of Jewish descent?" Earthly identities versus our spiritual destinies: why saints like the Theotokos and prophets like Elijah transcend their worldly origins to embrace all of humanity.

Audio source: “Answers to questions", no. 499 (in Greek), December 1st, 1991
https://arnion.gr/index.php/diafora-uemata/pantiseis-pori-n-katixitiko

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