The Assumption of Virgin Mary
15th August 2012 - Greece
Ιερός Ναός Μεγάλης Παναγίας και Αγίου Δημητρίου Θήβας
NEWS FEATURE Faithful walk on hands and knees up hill to revered icon
Tinos - 12 August 2007
1. Wide of Tinos port
2. Medium of Tinos port
3. Close of church on Tinos
Tinos - 13 August 2007
4. Wide of people crawling towards church
5. Wide of woman crawling towards church
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6. Wide of man crawling towards church
7. Close of man crawling
8. Close of man's hands as he crawls
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9. Wide of woman crawling with her family walking beside her
10. Medium of woman crawling
11. Wide of family crawling
12. Close of family's hands as they crawl
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13. Wide of woman crawling with her niece walking beside her
14. Medium of woman crawling
15. Close of woman's hands
16. Pull out as woman crawls up steps and enters church grounds with her niece following her
17. Entrance to church grounds with various pilgrims
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18. Wide of church interior
19. Pilgrims lighting candles
20. Pilgrims waiting to kiss icon believed to perform miracles
21. Woman doing the cross sign and kissing icon
22. Close of jewel-encrusted icon
23. Woman crawling up to base of icon, does the cross sign and kiss the icon
24. Pilgrims lighting candles
25. Close of hands lighting candles
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26. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Dorotheos II, Bishop of Syros and Tinos:
The Pascha (Easter) of the summer celebrates the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is a major, significant, ecclesiastical and religious event that gathers thousands of people in all churches, either big or small. Big or magnificent churches like the one that we find ourselves in now, or in small country churches, built in the name of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, scattered in all of Greece.
Tinos - 11 August 2007
27. Wide of people lining up to kiss icon
28. Pilgrims kiss icon
29. Close of icon
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30. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Dorotheos II, Bishop of Syros and Tinos:
During the first 15 days of August we have thousands of people who gather here so that they can bow before the icon and ask for the help of the Virgin Mary. Each person comes to ask favor of or thank her, to beg of her for his family, his people, especially parents for their children, but also for himself. He comes to give her an offering, to leave her a devotional object like the hundreds you see hanging under the oil lamps. Each one of these represents a miracle that might happened to a person.
31. Pull out from icon depicting Christ's resurrection to wide of church showing hanging oil lamps with offerings
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32. Close of offering depicting boat hanging from an oil lamp
33. Offerings hanging from oil lamps
34. Pull out from offering of silver orange to orange tree
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35. Wide of pilgrims crawling and walking on church grounds
36. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Angeliki, last name not given, from Piraeus, voxpop
We have come from Piraeus with deep faith and hope for every good in our lives.
37. Wide of woman crawling escorted by her niece
38. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) name not given, from Athens, voxpop:
My aunt, the woman you saw walking (she means crawling), has made an offering. For us these are holy days, almost every year we come here for one week.
39. Medium of man crawling up church steps
40. Wide of church steps with woman crawling and other pilgrims passing by
41. Wide of church
STORYLINE:
The annual influx of pilgrims crawling up the mountain on the Greek Island of Tinos has begun, ahead of the feast in honour of the Virgin Mary on Wednesday.
Every year, thousands of devout Christians crawl up a hill on the Aegean island in a pilgrimage to a church that houses a revered icon depicting the archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, believed to have the power to perform miracles.
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Two popular destinations especially for Greeks. Tinos hosts the cathedral of the Virgin Mary (well known for the miracles that are reported every year on August the 15th). Syros is particularly knwon for the coexistence of the Orthodox and Catholic creed something which is unique in Greece as Greece is basically an Ortthodox country.
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Tinos Greek island in the Aegean Sea.
Tinos Greece
Tinos (Greek: Τήνος) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea.
Tinos is famous amongst Greeks for the Church of Panagia Evangelistria.
The island is located near the geographical center of the Cyclades island complex, and because of the Panagia Evangelistria church, with its reputedly miraculous icon of Virgin Mary that it holds, Tinos is also the center of a yearly pilgrimage that takes place on the date of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (August 15, Dekapentavgoustos in Greek).
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