Photios Kontoglou Resource Page

Photios Kontoglou: Iconographer and Author

 

(1895-1965)

 

About

 

Photios Kontoglou: A Prophet of Suffering Romiosini 

 

The Main Representatives of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Iconography 

Byzantine Art Through the Eyes of Greek Modernists

 

Church Feasts

 

Christmas in Greek Literature

 

Balaam and the Three Magi (Photios Kontoglou) 

"John the Blessed": A New Year's Eve Tale by Photios Kontoglou

 

Photios Kontoglou Speaks About Holy Theophany (video)

 

"Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord" (Photios Kontoglou) 

True Orthodox Faith During Holy Week and Pascha (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Joyful Mourning – Great Mystery (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Threnody Over The Tomb (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

The Risen Christ: Logic on Trial (Photios Kontoglou) 

Ascension, the Test of Reason (Photios Kontoglou)

 

 

Saints

 

The Panagia: the Joy of All Christians (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

The Beauty of the Panagia (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

Saint Meletios and his Monastery in Kithairon (Photios Kontoglou)

An Offering of Praise to Holy Abba Isaac the Syrian (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Words of Complete Immortality: Saint Symeon the New Theologian (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Saint Demetrios the Myrrhgusher (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Saint Demetrios and Saint George, the Two Brave Young Lads of Christendom (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Saint Nilus the Myrrhgusher (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Saint Spyridon: Protector of the Poor, Father of Orphans, Teacher of Sinners (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Basil the Great and Disfigured Christianity (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

Mark the Eugenikos, the Champion of Orthodoxy (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The "Ignorant and Boorish Saint" Luke of Steirion (Photios Kontoglou) 

The Many Dresses of Kassiani (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The Relationship Between Photis Kontoglou and St. Ephraim of Nea Makri

 

The Veneration of Photios Kontoglou for Saint Ephraim of Nea Makri

 

Saint Ephraim of the Sacred Monastery of the Theotokos on Mount Amomon

 

Saint John the Russian, the New Confessor and his Incorrupt Relics

 

The Neomartyrs: The Glory of the Church (Photios Kontoglou) 

The Fiery Saint, Elijah the Thesbite (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The Forgotten Forerunner (Photios Kontoglou)

 

 

Spirituality 

The Hidden World of Mystery and the External World We Investigate (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Joyful Sorrow and its Secret Fruits (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The Topic That Tests the Faith of a Christian (Photios Kontoglou)

 

On Ecclesiastical Music (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

 

Ecclesiastical Commentary

 

A Convenient Christianity (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Do We Want To Be Christians Without Christ? (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

The Sunday of Orthodoxy and the Current State of Affairs (Photios Kontoglou)

Social Commentary

Gangrene Humanity (Photios Kontoglou)

 

May Day in Aivali (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

The Simple Joys of Summer (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Religion

 

Atheism: The Boast of Our Time (Photios Kontoglou)

 

Christianity and Islam - Two Related, Yet Different Religions (Photios Kontoglou)

 

 

Greek History (Romiosini)

 

Historical Introduction to the Fall of Constantinople (Fr. George Metallinos)

 

The Eve of the Fall of Constantinople (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The Spiritual Meaning of the Greek Revolution

 

The Sanctified Revolution (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

Φ. Κόντογλου: "Στολή Αφθαρσίας" & "Η Aγιασμένη Eπανάσταση"

 

Greeks and Turks (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

Iconography

 

What Orthodox Iconography Is (Photios Kontoglou) 

A Guided Tour of the Mosaics of Hagia Sophia with Photios Kontoglou

Photios Kontoglou's Vivid Description of the Icon of Saint John the Baptist

 

Saint Ephraim of Nea Makri, the Wonderworker and Newly-Revealed 

 

Saint Michael Paknanas the Gardener from Athens (+ 1771) 

 

The Funeral Oration of the Roman Empire Delivered on May 28, 1453

The 11th Century Church of Panagia Kapnikarea in Athens

 

"Saint Peter Raises Tabitha in Joppa" (one of the last works of Photis Kontoglou)  

Journey Through Holy Week: Holy and Great Tuesday

 

 

Moral Tales

 

The Great Wager Between Believers and Unbelievers (Photios Kontoglou) 

The Myth of the Octopus: Smiling Enemies (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The Least of My Brethren (Photios Kontoglou)

 

The Girl Mouse Seeks a Groom (A Fairy Tale by Photios Kontoglou)

 

 

Literature

 

Photios Kontoglou on Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

"An Honest Thief" by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Photios Kontoglou  

 

Photios Kontoglou on American Writers (Emerson, Poe and Dana) 

Photios Kontoglou on Goethe, Kazantzakis and Venezis

 

 

Philosophy

 

Photios Kontoglou on Ancient Greek Philosophers

 

Photios Kontoglou on European and Other Philosophers