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Καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ Learn from the lilies of the field

The Church of the Holy Apostles, right on the Greek-Albanian border, in the village of Molyvdoskepasto in the Municipality of Konitsa in the peripheral unit of Ioannina in Epirus is a very important and admirable post-Byzantine monument built in 1537 according to an lintel inscription

 

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Καὶ περὶ ἐνδύματος τί μεριμνᾶτε; καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνει· οὐ κοπιᾷ οὐδὲ νήθει· λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι οὐδὲ Σολομὼν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ περιεβάλετο ὡς ἓν τούτων.

Κατά Ματθαίον (στ΄ 22-33)

 

And why do you care about clothes? You have seen the lilies of the field grow, neither toil nor toil, but I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

According to Matthew (pp. 22-33)

 

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Περιοχή Κόνιτσας Konitsa’s city area

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