Our first documentary short explores the life and spiritual legacy of a beloved twentieth-century saint from the Greek island of Patmos. Filmed over the course of the first celebration of his April feast day in 2019, locals and pilgrims to the island share their remembrances of the saint. St. Amphilochios (1889-1970) was a tireless spiritual father, missionary, and founder of orphanages and monasteries.
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Run time is 30 minutes.
Greek with English subtitles.
3 November/York UK
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2p
screening room, University of St John
17 November/Canton, Ohio
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double feature with Sacred Alaska​
Canton Palace Theatre, 605 Market Avenue North
30 November/Wheeling, West Virginia
12p
Towngate Theatre, 1330 National Rd
Q&A with filmmaker
Previous Screenings
18 Nov/Houston Greek Film Fest - Houston, Texas
18 Nov/Down East Flick Fest - Greenville, North Carolina
26 Nov/Byzanfest - Melbourne, Australia
26 Dec/St Nina Monastery - Maryland
8 Jan/Cinema 21 - Portland, Oregon
9 Jan/Blue Mouse Theatre - Tacoma, Washington
16 & 20 Jan/Maliotis Cultural Center @ HCHC - Brookline, Massachusetts
9 Mar/Trinity Western University - Langley BC
11 Mar/Angelika Theater - Dallas, Texas
24 Mar/Sts Peter & Paul Church - Ben Lomond, California
25 Mar/Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church - San Francisco, California
26 Mar/The Chabot Theater - Castro Valley, California
29 Mar/St Mark Orthodox Church - Irvine, California
7 Apr/Baxter Avenue Cinema - Louisville, Kentucky
9 Apr/Tara Theater - Atlanta, Georgia
13 Apr/AMC Allentown 16 - Allentown, Pennsylvania
14 Apr/St Tikhon Seminary - South Canaan, Pennsylvania
15 Apr/Alpine Cinemas - Brooklyn, New York
16 Apr/St Vladimir Seminary - Crestwood, New York
17 Apr/Annunciation Cathedral - Columbus, Ohio
20 Apr/Tempe, Arizona
9 May/Fargo, North Dakota
16 May/Shreveport, Louisiana
30 May/Wilmington, North Carolina
24 Jun/Nyack, New York
1 Jul/Loveland, Colorado
13 Jul/Covina, California
24 Jul/Salem, Oregon
15 Aug/Sandpoint, Idaho
25 Aug/Omaha, Nebraska
19 Sep/Waco, Texas
23 Sep/Park Ridge, Illinois
27 Sep/OCAMPR Conference in Mundelein, Illinois
2 Oct/Wichita, Kansas
2 Oct/Eugene, Oregon
3 Oct/Detroit, Michigan
Saint Amphilochios was a spiritual son of St Nektarios of Aegina and a spiritual father of St Gavrilia. His life on Patmos overlapped with that of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, who was tonsured a monk there in the 1950s.
St Amphilochios started his monastic life at the monastery of St John the Theologian at the top of the island. Later he founded Evangelismos (Annunciation) Monastery depicted in the foreground.
While exiled to Patmos, Christ's beloved apostle, John the Theologian, received the divine revelation of the apocalypse. Visitors today pray in the Cave of the Apocalypse.
- Dismissal Hymn of St Amphilochios -
St Amphilochios is celebrated on April 16 and September 19.
Thank you to Gabriel Cremeens for translating and setting this hymn.
