Our Lady of Kéchreia (Exalted)
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This article presents a short story by Alexandros Papadiamantis, translated here into French for the first time, devoted to the pilgrimage to the church of Our Lady of Kéchreia during the nine-day fast of the Dormition. The text belongs to the autobiographical narrative genre, blending accounts of daily life with an Orthodox liturgical atmosphere. The central idea lies in the tension between an unfulfilled religious vow and the spontaneous impulse of a nocturnal departure, revealing the way in which popular devotion is woven into the ordinary fabric of existence. The contribution of this short story is to restore, with notable iconographic precision — particularly the description of the icon of the Dormition and its panels depicting Cosmas and John of Damascus — the inner world of the Greek Orthodox liturgical tradition, far from any folkloric exoticism, in its simultaneously human and eschatological dimension.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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