Podcasts about Patras

Send us a textIt's Pizza Expo week! While we are meeting all of you in person in Las Vegas, we wanted to share a replay of a favorite episode. George Panagopoulos spent this week with us and even gave an amazing seminar on Innovative Pizzeria Technology.It's easy to see why we tapped George to lead the seminar when you hear how he has modernized a 50-year old pizzeria. George Panagopoulos owns of Dedham House of Pizza, in Dedham, Massachusetts. This tech-savvy operator has taken over an over 50-year-old pizzeria. He is driving the business into future by developing a custom AI chatbot. As he has stepped into the owner role, George has implemented self-ordering kiosks, mobile app, rewards program, online specials and third-party delivery companies. Listen as George shares what motivates him to advance his business technology and offers insights on how other operators can do the same. We talk about what the future of Dedham House of Pizza will look like and how he is helping educate his customers to get there.  Here is a brief overview from Dedham House of Pizza: Dedham House of Pizza is a Greek family-owned pizzeria located in the heart of the historic Dedham Square, a suburb of Boston. Serving up an array of New England Greek pan-style pizza prepared with daily-made, in-house dough, calzones, subs, roll-ups, pastas, salads, beer, wine, desserts and more, DHOP has been providing fresh food to the local community for over 50 years. Through implementing recent innovations such as self-ordering kiosks, a mobile app, a rewards program, online specials, catering offerings, gluten-free pies and three third-party delivery companies, third-generation owner & operator George Panagopoulos has taken an individually-owned mom & pop pizza shop to a nationally-recognized pizzeria. The pizzeria's patriarch, Andreas Panagopoulos, immigrated from a small Greek village called Eleochorio (Village of Olives) outside of Greece's third largest city, Patras. Andreas and his siblings were farmers growing grapes and olives, and they made their humble living producing wine and olive oil. In search of the American Dream, Andreas arrived in the U.S. in his mid-20s, working a variety of jobs and falling in love with pizza. Andreas arrived in the U.S. in 1981 and by 1983 was working as an employee at the pizzeria. By 1991, he was managing it and by 1996, he and his wife Maria owned it, eventually enlisting their entire family to work as well including their son, George, who serves as the current owner and operator. Learn more about Dedham House of Pizza at www.dedhamhouseofpizza.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/dedhamhouseofpizza. 

Elias Patras is a Best-Selling Author, Intuitive Motivator, Psychic Medium, and Motivational Speaker, as well as a Retreat and Workshop Facilitator. He combines years of Intuitive Work and Life Coaching with Teaching to support others on their journey of self-development; so they can CONNECT with their goals, EDUCATE themselves through their blocks, and GROW in their limitless possibilities. He has studied energy work for over 20 years and now co-facilitates an Earth Honoring Altar apprenticeship program after completing a Peruvian Shamanic Studies apprenticeship. Elias won the 2019 Celebrate Your Life Speaker Program and shared the Sedona stage with many well-known people: Denise Linn, Lisa Williams, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Neale Donald Walsch, Anita Moorjani, Dr. Bruce Lipton and Sunny Dawn Johnston. He has trained with several internationally known psychic mediums: John Holland, Lisa Williams, Tony Stockwell, and Dougall Fraser. Elias' mission is to help others understand and tap into their own intuition and inner voice. He believes the key to personal growth is listening for and connecting to the signs and signals that we receive. His commitment and passion are unmistakable in his teaching of content that promotes growth and exploration of self. This work has a clear focus on how we co-create our life with the Divine and deserve everything that we want for our highest good. He is also the creator of a very specialized line of Energy Balancing Sprays and Bath Salts to enhance balance and alignment of the mind, body, and spirit. Eliashas a new book “Changing the F-You to Thank You, How to Flip the Script and See the Gift”. Contact Elias Patras: www.EliasPatras.com (website) www.YouTube.com/c/EliasPatras (YouTube) From the Universe to Our Hearts (book) I am also in 2 collaboration books, Courageous Heart and Own Your Awesome 3 Retreats coming up in Mechanicsville Iowa, also I am a Keynote Speaker on Spirit Heart Cruise in December (Mayan Ruins) Your Inner Voice (podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or go to MindBodySpirit.fm) Dr. Kimberley Linert Speaker, Author, Broadcaster, Mentor, Trainer, Behavioral Optometrist Event Planners- I am available to speak at your event. Here is my media kit: https://brucemerrinscelebrityspeakers.com/portfolio/dr-kimberley-linert/ To book Dr. Linert on your podcast, television show, conference, corporate training or as an expert guest please email her at incrediblelifepodcast@gmail.com or Contact Bruce Merrin at Bruce Merrin's Celebrity Speakers at merrinpr@gmail.com 702.256.9199 Host of the Podcast Series: Incredible Life Creator Podcast Available on... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/incredible-life-creator-with-dr-kimberley-linert/id1472641267 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6DZE3EoHfhgcmSkxY1CvKf?si=ebe71549e7474663 and on 9 other podcast platforms Author of Book: "Visualizing Happiness in Every Area of Your Life" Get on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3srh6tZ Website: https://www.DrKimberleyLinert.com Please subscribe, share & LISTEN! Thanks. incrediblelifepodcast@gmail.com Social Media Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-kimberley-linert-incredible-life-creator/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimberley.linert/ The Great Discovery eLearning Platform: https://thegreatdiscovery.com/kimberley l

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

Friends of the Rosary, Today,  November 30, the last day of Ordinary Time in the current Liturgical Year, the Church of Christ celebrates the Feast of St. Andrew, a fisherman from Bethsaida in Galilee, a former disciple of John the Baptist, and one of Jesus' closest apostles. St. Andrew's feast signals the beginning of Advent. St. Andrew the Apostle introduced his brother Peter to Jesus, saying, "We have found the Messiah." After Pentecost, he preached in Greece, where he was martyred on a cross as an "X." This type of cross has long been known as "St. Andrew's cross." Medieval artists suggested that Andrew was unworthy to die on a cross identical to our Lord's. St. Andrew is also the patron saint of Scotland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and Patras. Ave Maria!Jesus, I Trust In You!St. Andrew, Pray for Us! Come, Holy Spirit, come! To Jesus through Mary! + Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York • ⁠November 30, 2024, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

He was a physician from Antioch, a disciple and traveling-companion of the Apostle Paul, who refers to him as the 'beloved physician.' He wrote not only his Gospel but the Acts of the Apostles, dedicating both to Theophilus, who according to one tradition was the Governor of Achaia, a convert. Much of the Acts of the Apostles is written in the first person, describing his own travels with the St Paul. He lived to an old age and died in Achaia, possibly in Patras. Most ancient authors say that he died as a Martyr. Church traditions about St Luke are somewhat contradictory. According to many, he was one of the Seventy and thus an eye-witness to Christ's ministry on earth. (He is usually considered to be the companion of St Cleopas on the Road to Emmaus). According to others, he never met Christ himself but was converted by the preaching of the Apostle Paul. Church tradition holds that St Luke was the first iconographer, and painted an image of the Most Holy Theotokos from life. He is considered the patron of iconographers. Several icons attributed to St Luke himself are still in existence.

This blogcast explores “St. Andrew: What We Can Learn From The "Hidden Apostle" In Evangelization" written by Danielle Schmitz and read by Meghan Abando.In this blog post, Danielle shares about the model of St. Andrew and how he brought St. Peter to Jesus. We are called to bring others to Jesus so that they can fulfill the mission God has in mind for them. As we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Andrew the Apostle, I am always reminded of the hidden nature of St. Andrew's ministry. As seen in the passage from the Gospel of St. John above, Andrew is one of the first two apostles called by Jesus. Yet, we see very little of the rest of St. Andrew's specific ministry as an apostle outside of his crucial role in bringing St. Peter, his brother, to Christ. This action taken by St. Andrew – his ‘yes' to Jesus' mission – was crucial to the conversion of the rock of our Church, and requires greater reflection to see how just like St. Andrew, we are called to a hidden, simple, and apostolic life that leads to the raising up the next leaders of the Church. Like all things in the Christian life, St. Andrew's life changed when he met Jesus and was called to follow Him. Earlier in the first chapter of John, St. Andrew leaves behind everything to follow Jesus, recognizing Him as the Way, the Truth and the Life. Similarly, we in living the Christian life have all experienced that moment when we heard Jesus calling us into relationship and adventure with Him, and responded enthusiastically to that call, leaving behind the ways of the world to follow Christ. After being called, we see that St. Andrew helped to bring other people to Christ – he didn't want to keep the good news that he had found to himself. Not only did St. Andrew want to bring his brother Peter to Jesus, but he recognized that Peter had a mission in the Church as well, and he rejoiced in what God wanted to do with the life and talents of his brother. In stepping out in the apostolic life, the first step in evangelization is to go out and share the good news with those we encounter. However, the second, and I believe more important step, is to recognize gifts in others that can help to build up the kingdom, and calling those people to use their gifts for God's will. This kind of evangelization is very hidden – no one knows the people who helped to build up the great saints of the Church – and yet this ministry is so crucial. Evangelizing and accompanying, as St. Andrew exemplifies, allows us to rejoice in God's movement in the world, and allows others to fulfill the fullness of their personal vocation. Who in your life has been given gifts that can be used to build up the kingdom on earth? Take a step of boldness and guide them towards the Lord so that their gifts can be used for the greater glory of God. With the intercession of St. Andrew, let us pray that the Lord will give us the grace to live out the last line of the Litany of Humility fully: “That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should, Jesus grant me the grace to desire it.” St. Andrew, the hidden apostle, pray for us! Author:Danielle Schmitz is a Communications Associate for the Catholic Apostolate Center, where she assists in the updating and creation of social media content for new and ongoing projects at the Center. Danielle is a student at the Catholic University of America studying Marketing and Theology. Originally from San Jose, California, Danielle is currently studying abroad in Gaming, Austria with Franciscan University of Steubenville. St. Andrew:St. Andrew was one of the Twelve Apostles and brother to St. Peter. Born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee, Andrew was one of the first disciples of Jesus. Per Christian tradition, he went on to preach the Gospel in the region that is now Greece and Turkey. He was martyred by crucifixion in Patras; it is believed that he requested that his cross be made in the shape of an X because he thought he was unworthy to be killed on the same style of cross that Jesus had died upon. Andrew is the patron saint of fishermen because of his shared profession with his brother. Pope Benedict XVI called Andrew the “Apostle of the Greek world” and called on imagery of brotherhood between Peter and Andrew and Western and Eastern Churches. Follow us:The Catholic Apostolate CenterThe Center's podcast websiteInstagramFacebookApple PodcastsSpotify Fr. Frank Donio, S.A.C. also appears on the podcast, On Mission, which is produced by the Catholic Apostolate Center and you can also listen to his weekly Sunday Gospel reflections. Follow the Center on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), and YouTube to remain up-to-date on the latest Center resources.

La Batalla de Lepanto fue un enfrentamiento naval que tuvo lugar el 7 de octubre de 1571, en el golfo de Patras, cerca de la ciudad de Lepanto (actual Nafpaktos, en Grecia). Este combate enfrentó a la Liga Santa, una coalición cristiana liderada por España y conformada por el Papado, la República de Venecia, Génova y otros estados italianos, contra la flota del Imperio Otomano. La batalla se libró en un momento crucial en el que los otomanos buscaban consolidar su dominio en el Mediterráneo, amenazando la seguridad de Europa cristiana. El conflicto resultó en una decisiva victoria para la Liga Santa, que consiguió detener el avance otomano en la región. Fue la última gran batalla naval librada con galeras y se destacó por su gran número de combatientes y buques involucrados. Además, Lepanto marcó un cambio en el equilibrio de poder en el Mediterráneo, debilitando significativamente la influencia otomana y proporcionando un gran impulso moral y político a las potencias cristianas de Europa. Para hablar de todo ello contamos con la presencia de Carlos Canales, divulgador y autor de varios libros. Música: BSO El Patriota de John Williams

This week we're exploring tech in pizzerias with George Panagopoulos, owner of Dedham House of Pizza, in Dedham, Massachusetts. This tech-savvy operator has taken over an over 50-year-old pizzeria. He is driving the business into future by developing a custom AI chatbot. As he has stepped into the owner role, George has implemented self-ordering kiosks, mobile app, rewards program, online specials and third-party delivery companies.Listen as George shares what motivates him to advance his business technology and offers insights on how other operators can do the same.We talk about what the future of Dedham House of Pizza will look like and how he is helping educate his customers to get there. Here is a brief overview from Dedham House of Pizza:Dedham House of Pizza is a Greek family-owned pizzeria located in the heart of the historic Dedham Square, a suburb of Boston. Serving up an array of New England Greek pan-style pizza prepared with daily-made, in-house dough, calzones, subs, roll-ups, pastas, salads, beer, wine, desserts and more, DHOP has been providing fresh food to the local community for over 50 years. Through implementing recent innovations such as self-ordering kiosks, a mobile app, a rewards program, online specials, catering offerings, gluten-free pies and three third-party delivery companies, third-generation owner & operator George Panagopoulos has taken an individually-owned mom & pop pizza shop to a nationally-recognized pizzeria.The pizzeria's patriarch, Andreas Panagopoulos, immigrated from a small Greek village called Eleochorio (Village of Olives) outside of Greece's third largest city, Patras. Andreas and his siblings were farmers growing grapes and olives, and they made their humble living producing wine and olive oil. In search of the American Dream, Andreas arrived in the U.S. in his mid-20s, working a variety of jobs and falling in love with pizza. Andreas arrived in the U.S. in 1981 and by 1983 was working as an employee at the pizzeria. By 1991, he was managing it and by 1996, he and his wife Maria owned it, eventually enlisting their entire family to work as well including their son, George, who serves as the current owner and operator.Learn more about Dedham House of Pizza at www.dedhamhouseofpizza.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/dedhamhouseofpizza.Show Notes:Take the 2024 Pizzeria Operator Survey now at https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7926725/Pizza-Today-s-Pizzeria-Operator-Survey-2024 .October is NATIONAL PIZZA MONTH, the best month of the year! Start planning now! We are here to help you plan to have the BIGGEST & BEST October National Pizza Month with the official NPM logo, graphics, fillable social media images, press release, customizable social media calendar, pizza fun facts and more. Go to the Toolkit. 

THEME DOLCE VITA POUR LE BRUNCH DU MARIAGEVous l'attendiez avec impatience … voici la 3ème et dernière partie du récit de mariage d'Aurélie & Yvonnick ! (J'espère que tu as bien écouté les 2 épisodes précédents, sinon tu vas louper quelques références…) Allez, on repart dans le Luberon pour une belle cérémonie à l'église, suivie d'une réception aux Domaines de Patras truffée de jolies attentions pour surprendre les invités ! Il y a plein de conseils à piocher dans ce récit pour t'aider dans tes préparatifs de mariage, alors profites-en !On va parler de séance photos de couple, de défi lancé à la team d'honneur pour chauffer la salle avant l'entrée des mariés, de robes, de robes, ah et aussi de robes ! et de tutu !Et on terminera par le brunch du lendemain dans une ambiance très réussie ! Et si, comme certains invités, tu te demandes “Mais c'est quoi le Dolce Vita ?” On t'explique tout ça en détail !Allez c'est parti ! Je t'invite à rejoindre notre conversation avec Aurélie & Yvonnick … Bonne écoute !*******Bienvenue DANS LA CONFIDENCE ! le podcast mariage qui aide les futures mariées tout au long de leurs préparatifs de mariage !Je suis Laurène, jeune mariée du 15 Juillet 2021, j'ai profité de l'année de report de mon mariage pour lancer ce podcast dédié aux futures mariées. Chaque Mercredi matin, je te donne RDV pour un nouvel épisode inédit ! Je reçois des jeunes mariées qui nous racontent tous leurs préparatifs jusqu'au déroulé de leur jour J. Et j'interviewe des professionnels du mariage pour décrypter au mieux les coulisses de leurs métiers et te faire découvrir des prestataires de mariage passionnés.Ce podcast mariage, c'est le meilleur moyen de faire le plein de conseils pratiques, de bons plans et de recommandations de prestataires ! Bref, tout ce dont on a besoin quand on prépare un mariage !*******Pour me contacter par mail : danslaconfidence.podcast@gmail.comRetrouvez toutes les infos de cet épisode sur le compte instagram du podcast  !Montage de cet épisode : Laurène GOLVANPRESTATAIRES de ce mariage ambiance Dolce Vita :

LES DOMAINES DE PATRAS POUR UN MARIAGE SUR 4 JOURSOn retrouve Aurélie & Yvonnick, pour la suite de leur récit de mariage de 4 jours. Et aujourd'hui, changement de décor ! On quitte Monaco direction le Luberon, aux Domaines de Patras ! Les mariés ont eu un coup de cœur pour ce lieu de réception plein de charme, qui propose une offre ultra complète avec des espaces différents pour chaque moment fort du mariage.Les Domaines de Patras c'est un lieu aux multiples possibilités situé au cœur de la Provence qu'on va découvrir au fil de leur récit de mariage sur 4 jours. Avec au programme : un welcome diner festif tout en beige, un first look improbable, une belle cérémonie à l'église, et une réception pleine d'animations originales ! Allez, c'est parti, on reprend notre conversation avec un point logistique sur les tout derniers préparatifs des mariés …Bonne écoute !*******Bienvenue DANS LA CONFIDENCE ! le podcast mariage qui aide les futures mariées tout au long de leurs préparatifs de mariage !Je suis Laurène, jeune mariée du 15 Juillet 2021, j'ai profité de l'année de report de mon mariage pour lancer ce podcast dédié aux futures mariées. Chaque Mercredi matin, je te donne RDV pour un nouvel épisode inédit ! Je reçois des jeunes mariées qui nous racontent tous leurs préparatifs jusqu'au déroulé de leur jour J. Et j'interviewe des professionnels du mariage pour décrypter au mieux les coulisses de leurs métiers et te faire découvrir des prestataires de mariage passionnés.Ce podcast mariage, c'est le meilleur moyen de faire le plein de conseils pratiques, de bons plans et de recommandations de prestataires ! Bref, tout ce dont on a besoin quand on prépare un mariage !*******Pour me contacter par mail : danslaconfidence.podcast@gmail.comRetrouvez toutes les infos de cet épisode sur le compte instagram du podcast  !Montage de cet épisode : Laurène GOLVANPRESTATAIRES de ce mariage sur 4 jours aux Domaines de Patras :

Este fin de semana vuelve la competición a la Liga Endesa. Después del buen sabor de boca que dejó la Copa del Rey para el UCAM Murcia llegó el parón por las ventanas FIBA: Los hermanos Kurucs, Radovic, Jelinek, Sant-Roos y Falk se fueron con sus respectivas selecciones y el resto se quedaron preparando la recta final del curso. Ya no habrá parones hasta junio. En el horizonte, el equipo que dirige Sito luchará por disputar el play off por el título de liga (nunca antes en la historia del club se ha jugado en una misma temporada Copa y play off) y también quieren un billete para la Final Four de la Champions.Para luchar por esos objetivos, el UCAM Murcia se ha reforzado en este parón con Jonah Radebaugh, un base-escolta americano (con pasaporte montenegrino) que ya vimos la temporada pasada en el Valencia Basket y que este año estaba en el Galatasaray turco. Si no pasa nada extraño, Radebaugh debutará este sábado en la pista del Baxi Manresa, ahora mismo un rival directo por terminar entre los ocho primeros. De ahí, el equipo viajará a Patras, donde el martes se medirán al Promitheas en un partido clave para sellar la clasificación para los cuartos de final de la BCL.Hoy en La Pizarra analizaremos en la tertulia con Antonio García (Movistar TV) y Emilio Sánchez-Bolea (La Verdad) cómo encaja Jonah Radebaugh en los esquemas del UCAM Murcia. También hablaremos con el entrenador del BAXI Manresa, Pedro Martínez, sobre el partido de esta próxima jornada y Chema de Lucas nos traerá toda la actualidad del mercado de la Liga Endesa

Producer Alexx Antaeus was recently recognized with a Grammy for Best Reggae Album alongside Julian Marley for their collaboration on "Colors of Royal". Their work seamlessly blends reggae with electronic and experimental sounds, showcasing Antaeus's exceptional talent and creative vision.Full YouTube interview link here: Please share and like.https://youtu.be/OR1KQZmm9M8?si=p4a150a3z-_Xbv-GBeyond this Grammy success, Antaeus has a diverse career producing for acclaimed artists and crafting evocative soundscapes as well as his own music - notably Byzantine Meditation. He was born in Patras in Greece but spent his teenage years in Athens before leaving for California when he was 17. His life has taken him from L.A., where he studied, became a DJ, and ended up with a studio in New York, and a chicken farm in Jamaica. It was on that island that he met many notable Jamaicans, including Julian Marley and after their initial collaboration on The Tide is High - a cover of Dancehall star of the 70s John Holt's track (the Blondie version is the one that become world famous), they decided to work on an album.It was that album Colors of Royal that would win Alexx his first Grammy. And I'm guessing not his last...#patras #greece #athens #alexxantaeus #julianmarley #jamaica #kingston #grammy #colorsofroyal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CELÝ ROZHOVOR V DÉLCE 66 MIN. JEN NA HTTPS://HEROHERO.CO/CESTMIR „Pokud mě má moje současná situace něco naučit, tak je to vnímat život jako něco jiného než jen práci, stres a nervování se, abych měla dost koncertů,“ zamýšlí se osmadvacetiletá herečka a zpěvačka Anna Julie Slováčková, které lékaři loni v létě znovu diagnostikovali rakovinu. Poprvé s ní bojovala před čtyřmi lety. Teď se nádor, který byl původně v prsu, dostal do plíce a uzlin kolem. Zpětně ani neví, jestli ji ta informace šokovala. Už když si šla pro výsledky, cítila, že něco není v pořádku, dlouhodobě ji trápil kašel. Když se její předtucha potvrdila, jela za tátou a strašně se rozbrečela. Poprvé a naposled. Pak si s ním dala panáka a šla do toho zase. Jakkoli odhodlaně přitom zní, přiznává, že je to náročné a jsou lepší a horší dny. Na konci každého z nich je pro ni důležité si říct: Jsi dobrá, že's tohle zvládla, teď se vyspi a ráno bude určitě líp. Pesimismu, který je jí vlastní, si nemůže dovolit, stejně jako nechat se paralyzovat strachem, nakonec všichni máme nějaký vyhrazený čas. Dané bylo i to, že návrat onemocnění neutají. Její život je veřejný od narození, navíc hraje a zpívá, takže otázkám a spekulacím, proč najednou nemá vlasy, váží o 15 kilo víc nebo ruší vystoupení, bylo lepší předejít. Bulvár přitom prosila, aby respektoval její zdravotní stav a nekontaktoval ji, ale nestalo se. Z některých komentářů se pak dočetla, že se svou nemocí jenom zviditelňuje. Ani tak nelituje, že o tom, čím si prochází, mluví od samého začátku. Sama by ocenila, kdyby ji tehdy někdo řekl, kde si koupí super paruku a šátek, jestli bude opuchlá pořád, nebo zítra už ne, a co se bude dít s jejími vlasy. Věří, že když se o tohle všechno podělí, může pomoct mladým lidem, kteří zažívají něco podobného. A reakce jí to potvrzují. Jak na ni zapůsobila slova herce Jaroslava Duška, že onkologičtí pacienti si za rakovinu můžou sami? Co znamenalo vyrůstat v rodině Patrasů a Slováčků, jak vnímá mediální obraz svých rodičů, jací jsou ve skutečnosti a kým by byla bez nich? Poslechněte si.

Ein digitales Überwachungssystem, das immer weiß, wo du bist, in welchem Auto du sitzt, mit wem du dich triffst, wohin du gehst. Das klingt nach einem düsteren Science-Fiction Roman. Oder nach Diktaturen, wie China und Nordkorea, die ihre Bevölkerung überwachen. Aber Silvan Fülle, ein junger Hacker, glaubt im Jahr 2011 ein genau solches System gefunden zu haben: in Deutschland. Er veröffentlicht die Informationen. Ein paar Tage später wird er in seiner Küche vom LKA überwältigt. Host: Ann-Kathrin Mittelstraß Reporter: Alisa Schröter Redaktion: Marion Härtel, Constanze Radnoti und Leopold Zaak. Regie: Niklas Gramann und Constanze Radnoti mit Leopold Zaak. Audio-Produktion: Christoph Tampe. Produzent: Reinhard Röde. Redaktion FYEO: Tristan Lehmann. Gesamtleitung FYEO: Luca Hirschfeld und Tristan Lehmann

This week, Donald Macleod marks the beginning of the season of Advent by exploring Christmas music and stories from the Middle Ages. Christmas celebrations encompassed a great variety of colourful traditions and musical occasions during medieval times. Peasants and nobles alike could look forward to many weeks of festivities, from Advent at the start of December, right through to Candlemas on 2nd February. Some of those customs we still recognise and celebrate today. Many are now lost or significantly altered. Donald is joined by early music expert, William Lyons, to examine how Christmas might have felt and sounded to our medieval ancestors.Music Featured: Gaudete Personent hodie; Gaudete; Omnis mundus jucundetur Perotin: Alleluia Nativitas Miri it is while sumer ilast Blowe, Northerne Wynd (arr. William Lyons) Seint Nicholas was borne in the citee of Patras; Cantu mirro, summa laude; Sainte nicholaes; Salve cleri speculum - Salve iubar presulum Dufay: Ce jour de l'an Orientis partibus The Play of Daniel (Ludus Danielis) Hec est Clara dies Procedenti puero Pérotin: Salvatoris hodie Dum sigillum summi patris [instrumental] Perotin: Viderunt Omnes Hodie Christus natus est Viderunt Emmanuel Lux hodie, Lux leticie Psallat chorus; Eximie pater et regie; Aptatur Descendit de cælis In natali Domini Isaias Cecinit Perotin: Sederunt Principes Verbum patris umanatur O O Edi beo thu hevene-queene Angelus ad virginem Ecce quod natura Ther is no rose of swych vertu Verbum Patris humanatur Verbum Patris (intrumental) Thys endere nyght Ave Maris Stella Nowell, owt of youre sleep aryse Adam lay ibowndyn (arr. William Lyons) Ye have so longe kepe schepe (instrumental) Nowell, nowell, nowell Hayl Mary ful of grace Coventry Carol Halle: Dieus soit en cheste maison Sequentia Dufay: Bonjour, bon mois Lantins, A: Ce jour de l'an, belle je vous supply Dufay: Ce jour de l'an Gresley Dances (arr. William Lyons)Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Chris Taylor for BBC Audio Wales and WestFor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for A Mediaeval Christmas https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001svqt And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

Full Text of ReadingsFeast of Saint Andrew, Apostle Lectionary: 684The Saint of the day is Saint AndrewSaint Andrew's Story Andrew was Saint Peter's brother, and was called with him. “As [Jesus] was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is now called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, ‘Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.' At once they left their nets and followed him” (Matthew 4:18-20). John the Evangelist presents Andrew as a disciple of John the Baptist. When Jesus walked by one day, John said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” Andrew and another disciple followed Jesus. “Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, ‘What are you looking for?' They said to him, ‘Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are you staying?' He said to them, ‘Come, and you will see.' So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day” (John 1:38-39a). Little else is said about Andrew in the Gospels. Before the multiplication of the loaves, it was Andrew who spoke up about the boy who had the barley loaves and fishes. When the Gentiles went to see Jesus, they came to Philip, but Philip then had recourse to Andrew. Legend has it that Andrew preached the Good News in what is now modern Greece and Turkey and was crucified at Patras on an X-shaped cross. Reflection As in the case of all the apostles except Peter and John, the Gospels give us little about the holiness of Andrew. He was an apostle. That is enough. He was called personally by Jesus to proclaim the Good News, to heal with Jesus' power and to share his life and death. Holiness today is no different. It is a gift that includes a call to be concerned about the Kingdom, an outgoing attitude that wants nothing more than to share the riches of Christ with all people. Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of: FishermenGreeceRussiaScotland Enjoy this recipe in honor of Saint Andrew! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Feast of St. Andrew, apostle; brother of St. Peter; reputed to have preached the Good News in what is now modern Greece and Turkey and was crucified at Patras in about 60 A.D. on an X-shaped cross Thursday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/30/23 Gospel: Matthew 4:18-22

He was a physician from Antioch, a disciple and traveling-companion of the Apostle Paul, who refers to him as the 'beloved physician.' He wrote not only his Gospel but the Acts of the Apostles, dedicating both to Theophilus, who according to one tradition was the Governor of Achaia, a convert. Much of the Acts of the Apostles is written in the first person, describing his own travels with the St Paul. He lived to an old age and died in Achaia, possibly in Patras. Most ancient authors say that he died as a Martyr. Church traditions about St Luke are somewhat contradictory. According to many, he was one of the Seventy and thus an eye-witness to Christ's ministry on earth. (He is usually considered to be the companion of St Cleopas on the Road to Emmaus). According to others, he never met Christ himself but was converted by the preaching of the Apostle Paul. Church tradition holds that St Luke was the first iconographer, and painted an image of the Most Holy Theotokos from life. He is considered the patron of iconographers. Several icons attributed to St Luke himself are still in existence.

He was a physician from Antioch, a disciple and traveling-companion of the Apostle Paul, who refers to him as the 'beloved physician.' He wrote not only his Gospel but the Acts of the Apostles, dedicating both to Theophilus, who according to one tradition was the Governor of Achaia, a convert. Much of the Acts of the Apostles is written in the first person, describing his own travels with the St Paul. He lived to an old age and died in Achaia, possibly in Patras. Most ancient authors say that he died as a Martyr. Church traditions about St Luke are somewhat contradictory. According to many, he was one of the Seventy and thus an eye-witness to Christ's ministry on earth. (He is usually considered to be the companion of St Cleopas on the Road to Emmaus). According to others, he never met Christ himself but was converted by the preaching of the Apostle Paul. Church tradition holds that St Luke was the first iconographer, and painted an image of the Most Holy Theotokos from life. He is considered the patron of iconographers. Several icons attributed to St Luke himself are still in existence.

On this episode, my guest is Barbara from No Name Kitchen, an independent movement working alongside the Balkans and the Mediterranean routes to promote humanitarian aid and political action for those who suffer the difficulties of extreme journeys and violent push-backs.Their actions include medical care, distributions of food and clothes, legal support and the denunciation of abuses at the borders, where thousands of human beings keep suffering violence, fatigue and sickness during their migratory processes.No Name Kitchen was born in Belgrade by winter 2017 when a group of volunteers started cooking in Belgrade alongside the thousands of people who were fending for themselves after the closure of the Hungarian frontier. Since then, NNK supports those who suffer the lack of safe and legal pathways, collecting testimonies and denouncing the systematic use of institutional violence at the borders.Show NotesNo Name Kitchen: What's in a Name?Social Media as a Tool for OrganizingThe KitcheneersIt's a Border Crisis, not a Migration CrisisWhy do People Seek Asylum in EuropeHow the EU is Breaking its Own LawsBorder Violence in the BalkansWhat are Pushbacks?The Silence of Big-Name NGOsFrom Hospitality to Hostility: A Story in KladusaMigrants as Puppets in Political WarsThe EU's Racist Immigration ActionsThe Lives of NNK's Guests After the BorderHomeworkNo Name Kitchen Website - Facebook - Instagram - TwitterVolunteer w/ No Name KitchenLatitude Adjustment Program Podcast episode w/ No Name KitchenTranscript[00:00:00] Chris: Welcome, Barbara, to the End of Tourism Podcast. Thank you for joining us on behalf of No Name Kitchen. [00:00:07] Barbara: Thank you very much, Chris.[00:00:10] Chris: I'd love it if we could start off with you telling us where you find yourself today, both geographically and perhaps emotionally as well. What does the world look like for you?[00:00:21] Barbara: So, actually in a very interesting place because I am visiting one friend who was living with me in Bosnia, who's one of the persons that started with me and developed with me the project of No Name Kitchen in Bosnia. And so I'm visiting her that we didn't see her for the last four years because we're all the time very busy with our lives and with our different projects.So I'm here with her these days with plan to head to Croatia next week. Because the political context changed in the borders a little bit in the last month and now there are people on the move in that are passing through Rijeka, this one Croatian city, and I want to go to see the situation there.And then maybe, if I find the time, I will also head Kladusa and Bihac that are the border areas of Bosnia where I used to live in the past and where I spend a lot of time with my life there. [00:01:14] Chris: Mm. Interesting. And you're from Spain originally, is that correct? [00:01:18] Barbara: Yeah, I'm from Spain and normally I, I spend the most of the time in Spain in the last years because sometimes you need a break from the border. Emotionally I feel very well as well because I'm with my friend who is a brilliant person and I adore her. She was a perfect colleague you know, when you're at the border, the life is very tough. You see a lot of people suffering.But having her as a colleague, it was beautiful thing because we gave too much support to each other. [00:01:44] Chris: What a blessing. What a blessing. Mm. [00:01:47] Barbara: I was very lucky. [00:01:49] Chris: Well, I know that a lot of the work that No Name Kitchen does is based in the Balkans and as well in Ceuta in Spain. And we'll come to those regions momentarily.But I'd like to ask you first why no name Kitchen? Why a kitchen without a name? [00:02:07] Barbara: It's a very nice story because No Name Kitchen was born in a very informal way. You know, it is not actually an organization. It's a movement of people. And there are different organizations registered in different countries, but itself No Name Kitchen is a movement of people helping people. And in 2017, so let's make a little bit of context. In 2016, European Union sent money to Turkey to close the border of the Balkans. Yeah. So, in the beginning of 2017, in the winter, many people found themselves in Serbia. They were trying to migrate to go to some country in Europe, and then they found themselves in Serbia with the borders of European Union closed. And many people like were activists that went to Greece to help people on the move because they knew the situation or what was happening since 2015.You probably remember in 2015 all this amount of people that were going from Turkey to somewhere in Europe to ask for asylum, to seek international protection. So many people were in Greece helping. They got information that in the city center of Belgrade, which is the capital city of Serbia, they were like more than 1000 people, mainly from Afghanistan at that moment, many of them minors with no parents, living in the old train station in a very bad conditions. And the weather was horrible. It was super cold. It was probably one of the coldest winters of the last years. So they just went there. They got some food from an organization. They went there and they saw a horrible situation where no one of the big institutional organizations were helping.So then, they, with these posts that they had and asking for, help in social media, in their own social media, people start sending money and they start cooking right away. So, then they found this group of activists from many countries found themselves cooking every day and also together with people on the move and distributing food every day, every night.And then one day, they were like, this seems like an organization. We actually are kind of organization. And then one guy, one from Afghanistan, he wrote on the wall with a spray kitchen. No, because it's like, we have a kitchen, we have an organization, but we have no name. And then it's the same guy.He wrote "No Name," and then it was like, "No Name Kitchen." And it just stay like this. I think it's amazing. It's a very pure name and it really shows what is the way No Name Kitchen movement works. Its informal way of people cooperating and doing things together and helping each other.[00:04:31] Chris: And so in that context, it was a spontaneous organization of people, or how did they, I mean, obviously people heard about this, but how did they come to organize together? [00:04:41] Barbara: Social media is most instant thing, right? So, they opened this facebook profile, and then they say, what is going on. Some journalists started going there because these activists started talking about the situation. So, journalism and photojournalists went there and start showing the images. Mm-hmm. Oh, because it was really like minus 20 degrees and things like that. And people were living in the old train station and were using this wood from the old train station that has this liquid that is toxic.So it was pretty awful. And also at the same time, the activists start hearing all these stories about the pushbacks, which is, yeah, something I would keep denouncing, since then, that is when people try to enter European Union, police will push them back to Serbia with violence, which is totally illegal.So yeah, it was just people that were in Greece trying to help people in Greece. Finally, everybody knows everybody in this activist world, and if you don't know anyone, then you contact someone and then this person will tell you, "Ah, there is this group of people doing that."Maybe you're interested. And then with the Facebook, they started to ask for donations. They started to call for more people to go and help because the situation was a big emergency and needed more, more people. Some other people will give interviews on newspapers, for example. I was not there at the moment. I arrived some months later. And how I met No Name Kitchen is because one girl told her situation to one Spanish newspaper. I read this interview. I found like amazing what they're doing. I found them on the social media and I contacted No Name Kitchen. And then I head to Belgrade few months after. So yeah, spontaneously. [00:06:11] Chris: Within the kitchens themselves, if we can call it that, within the No Name Kitchens, what kind of people end up showing up?Are these people who are already a part of the No name Kitchen Network? Or are they local people as well? [00:06:24] Barbara: Well, we call ourselves "kitcheners." It's many different kind of people. Like really it's, it's people. People want to help. People are good, despite all the politics that surround us, there is a lot of beautiful people in this world, and they can be someone who is. Retired and he was a lawyer in his life and now he finished his work and he's 66 years old and he wants to do something and he goes to Serbia and he spends there two months. He can be someone that's 22 years old and is doing an internship for the university and decided instead of doing a very easy internship, they will come with us and face what is really the situation in Europe? It's a very wide movement of people. Some of them can come to the borders and we have a policy of minimum one month cause it makes everything easier for the work, right? But then also a kitchener is a person that is in his home or her hometown gathering beautiful clothes to send to the border so people can dress nicely and is a person that is making some event in her or his town to raise money to share, to send to the activities. And there's really a lot of people, because many people are good and many people wanna help. They understand we cannot really be living in this Europe that they are making for us, the politicians. No, we need a more human place to live. Yeah. It's true. As you mentioned before, that is more people from the south of Europe and Germany also, not so much from the north of Europe.[00:07:45] Chris: Speaking of the issues in the Balkans, in between Serbia and Turkey and Greece, of course. Perhaps for our listeners, if you could, perhaps there's a way of summarizing briefly the main issues that are arising in Southern Europe regarding these immigration crises.Why is this happening? What are the major positions of the European Union, of organizations like No Name Kitchen, and what does that dynamic look like? From a distance, [00:08:15] Barbara: So first, I wanted to tell you in No Name Kitchen we don't say "migration crisis" because there are not really so many people who are migrating.So the crisis has been it's a border crisis, a political crisis. It's a humanitarian crisis. There are not so many migrants. And if the borders will be open, all this mess will not be happening. Right? So we don't call it migration crisis. So, basically according to the European Union law, if you wanna apply for asylum, if you come from a country that is in war or a country with a dictatorship, that when you complain about something or you can see yourself in jail from a country in conflict or whatever or you're from LGBTQ++ if you wanna apply for asylum is very, very few chances that you can get any visa to travel to Europe. So imagine you're in Syria, you're in Afghanistan, you're in Iraq, you're in Morocco, and you wanna apply for asylum to come to Europe or to get any visa that will allow you to come to Europe by plane.It's very, very, very few chances that they will give you any visa to come. But the European Union law also says that if you're in the European Union soil and you apply for asylum and you apply for international protection, it's your right that the country where you are, it starts a procedure to see and to understand if you really need this protection, which long legal procedure.And it takes a while. Yeah. So that basically is one of the main reasons why people are seeing themselves crossing borders in irregular manners and seeing themselves risking their lives as it just happened now from Libya, this shipwreck in Greece. So people are coming from Libya to Italy and now.A lot of people have died and others are in centers in Greece now. So this is the main point why people will cross the borders in irregular manners. But then there is a problem and it's like European Union is not following its own rules. So then when a person arrives in, for example, let's say Greece, let's say Bulgaria, I say this because they are more in the south, let's say Croatia or Hungary, countries that are bordered with other their countries, the people arrived there and then when they tried to apply for asylum, the most of common thing that can happen to them. And what we've been denouncing since the very beginning because people were explaining to us and we saw it was something very systematically. And it's something that is happening on a daily basis is that police take them back to this other country, which means a pushback. We call this a "pushback."And many times these pushbacks, which are illegal according to the European Union law, come with a lot of violence. Many times the police will steal the things from the people on the move. And many times they take, for example, their shoes when it's winter and then people to walk in the snow in the winter without shoes until they arrive to a safe place.So this is basically why people are crossing borders in this ways. Then another question that is very common, why a person will not stay, for example, in Bosnia, will not stay in Serbia, in North Macedonia, which are safe countries, which are very nice countries. Yeah. So, the problem is that if you look to the numbers, there are very few people, that get asylum there.So, there is people that tried too because it's like, okay, I'm in a safe place. There's no work here, and it's a beautiful place. But then if you look to the numbers, there are very, very, very few people every year that can access asylum. And while also you're waiting for your asylum to proceed, normally they keep you in those camps that really don't have the basic conditions to really have a decent life. I mean, these refugee camps, transit camps; it depends how they them in each country. [00:11:54] Chris: Wow. Thank you. And the major sites that no-name Kitchen operates in include Ceuta in Spain, which surprisingly, is actually on the African mainland. Mm-hmm. As well as in the Balkans in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Patras, Greece. [00:12:13] Barbara: Patras has just finished. Right. Basically many people are not going anymore to Greece as before because in Greek, the polices became very tough against people who are migrating. So, many times people are forced to be in detention centers, like in detention camps while they apply for asylum, while they wait for the asylum to proceed. It's like really a jail. Mm-hmm. So now many people go through Bulgaria and then Serbia.So in Greece there are not so many people anymore as it used to be. And we just close few weeks ago. But we're always open that there are more people start coming to Greece that we can reopen any project there. Okay. [00:12:47] Chris: And these other sites then in Ceuta as well as Serbia, Bosnia, and Bulgaria, these places are so important for No Name Kitchen in part because this is essentially where the movement of people flows through?[00:13:01] Barbara: We are basically in the borders because we do many things, not every day. We share food, clean clothes, provide tools that people can have hot showers, because also the many people don't have access to water. We have a health project that if someone needs a paid treatment because it's like, for example, dentist or for the eyes.And then in the hospital they don't wanna to give any of these treatments and we pay for the private doctors and so on. So it's many activities that we do every day about spending time with people in the movement, listening and spending and sharing our stories. But then all this also bring us to see how much their rights are attacked all the time.So then the aim is to denounce. The aim is that we don't need not to give this charity because there will be justice and then people don't need anymore. So the aim is to denounce what is happening all the time. So, in the place where we're is basically border areas. Mm-hmm. The border areas is where you can see how Europe is really not respecting the human rights.And because quite tough places, there is not so many movements on these areas. So for example, the humanitarian aid is pretty much criminalized. So normally police will disturb you just because you're giving jackets to people. Mm. So it's are places that are strategically for denouncing. And since it just started in Serbia, first it started in Belgrade, but three months after the team moved to Sid, which is in the border with Croatia because many people were there. And it was a point where you could really denounce on the pushbacks from Croatia. So then, all the other projects have been going very much together with the idea of reporting the border violence.Yeah. Mm. And in Ceuta, Spain, which is bordered with Morocco. It's like another border for people because even if it's a Spain, people are not allowed to take a ferry very easily to the mainland, it's very difficult. So there is a lot of bureaucratic problems in the middle, like barriers that are being pushed to the people, so then they don't have the chance to cross legally to the mainland.So many people also risk their life there. And at the same time, sometimes there are pushbacks from Ceuta to Morocco. We've denounced the pushbacks of minors and actually together with other organizations from Spain. And actually the former delegate of the government got investigated for that. And they are under, I dunno how you say in English, like invest. [00:15:27] Chris: Investigations. [00:15:29] Barbara: Yeah. So basically border areas are very much important for what we wanna denounce. Mm. And now we're starting operating in Ventimiglia, Italy, which even inside of Italy is very near France.And we visited the place there and then we saw how there are also pushbacks from France. So this is another place that it could, it could be interesting to denounce, because many, many times people would think like, ah, but this is happening there in Croatia and Serbia you know, like, Serbia is not European Union, so people sometimes think that when we are talking about the pushbacks and all this violence, like very far from us, and it's difficult to make people understand that it's actually with the money that comes from the European Union. That means that if you are from the European Union or you're working here and paying taxes here, your taxes are used to pay to torture people, basically.No. Mm wow. So it's also nice to be inside of Europe to show how this violence is systematic in the different borders. [00:16:23] Chris: Right. And in the context of these pushbacks I imagine they're happening in all different contexts and circumstances. Could you give us a little bit of an idea of what that looks like?I mean, I imagine a few different things. I imagine that people are in detention centers, people are in refugee camps. I imagine that in some instances people are simply on the street and then perhaps in others trying to get a meal. [00:16:51] Barbara: I mean, we don't see the pushbacks. Pushbacks are hidden. And also we are at the other side of the borders. We only can meet people after they got pushed-back.. Yeah. Mm. Okay. So for example, you're in Serbia and this person tells you, like, I just been pushback from Hungary.We're not in the border area. You cannot be at the border. We're in different towns near the border areas. Ok. So a pushback is like a person tries to cross the border in different ways. For example, walking the forest, hidden. It's very common.So these are the stories that people tell to us. And then at some points, police see them in maybe in Hungary or maybe in Bulgaria, or maybe in Croatia. Those are all European Union countries. And then either the police or it can be also neighbors that they believe they're patriots, they'll call the police.Mm-hmm. You can see the people on the move walking and then the police will can arrive there and can take the people back to the border by cars. Many times they need to sign papers that they don't know what is written on these papers. Many times they get lied by the police telling, like, if you sign this paper, you can access to asylum.And actually you're signing a paper that is making you a punishment for something or you're signing that you want to really go back to the other countries, so, you're signing something that you don't know. Many times people get put into detention places. It's very common in Bulgaria and in Croatia for example.And then when they leave these detention places, they are told that they need to pay for their days they've been sleeping there for the accommodation on the food, which is like normally according to what people explain to us, accommodation on food are awful. Many times, not even enough food. And many times we're talking that those are children or very young people, as well.And then police will take them to the border and then force them to come back to the country that is not European Union, which means maybe Bosnia, maybe Serbia, or maybe Turkey if they're in Bulgaria. And many times this comes with very huge violence. As you can see in our websites, we speak often about this. No Name Kitchen created one Network that is called Border Violence Monitoring Network. Border Violence Monitoring Network. Now we are not anymore part of it since last month, because we will report in other ways by ourselves and with other different partners. But there you can find all the testimonies we've been gathering since 2017.And it's how the people describe to us what happens to them. Many times, you can't really see, because many times the people describe to you one situation and then they show you their back and in their back you see the marks of the batons or the marks of sticks or things like that, so it's very obvious to see that the person is injured. Many times people can come with blood or with bruises in their faces because the police did them in their faces. Wow. And then other of the things that is very common is to steal their belongings. So like this, you make more difficult for them to continue their trip because then they take their phones, their clothes, money.So then if you see yourself, for example, in Serbia, again with no phone, with no money, with no shoes, with no basic clothes, then you cannot continue your trip. You need to find a way to get money again. You need to find, like, for example, that your family sends to you and then you can buy another phone and then you can buy new shoes.So you can continue, at some point, your way to try to ask for international protection to some European Union country. Wow. Wow. [00:20:11] Chris: I guess there's this aspect of the state that seems so deeply involved in the suppression and repression of these movements, especially from asylum seekers, right?Mm-hmm. And I think this is something that you hear about quite a bit in many parts of the world where there are these border crises, right? In regards to people who live in the borderlands who are for whatever reason against the movement or flows of people in this regard against asylum seekers in this obviously ends up or can end up with not just hostility, but violence, racism, et cetera.And I'm also curious about the possibility of hospitality in these contexts. And certainly no name kitchen appears to take on that role and that responsibility quite a bit. And it's one of the main themes of this podcast, as well, is hospitality. And I'm reminded of this story that, some years ago and at the beginning of the war in Syria around 2015, 2016, I heard a rumor that Syrian refugees were hiding in the abandoned houses in my grandparents' villages in northern Greece, right on the border with North Macedonia in the daytime and waiting until night to cross the border, mostly to avoid capture and persecution at the hands of either Greek or Macedonian authorities. And last year I was visiting my grandmother there. She confirmed the story and said that this 85 year old woman, she left her house in the daytime, in the same village, with trays and trays of food and jars of water to offer these travelers before they moved along.Since no name Kitchen relies largely on donations, I'm wondering about this notion of old time hospitality as opposed to the kind of industrial hospitality we hear about or we see in the hotels. One of the themes of this season is also about what kind of old time hospitality still exists in Europe, and I'm wondering what you and your team might have seen in this regard?[00:22:29] Barbara: so, this is a very interesting question because things have changed so much during the years, and basically because the authorities have criminalized so much. The people on the move in general, like being a migrant is like being a criminal according to general speech from the politicians, which comes from the European Union. Mm-hmm. And at the same time, it's being criminalized. The help. Humanitarian help is being criminalized. So imagine for example, I wanna tell you the story in Bosnia, because Bosnia is the project where I spent the most of my time in the last years. When I arrived in Bosnia, in Kladusa, that is in the north of Bosnia near Croatia. It was middle of 2018 and people will be very nice. And then people will be very nice with people on the move. So people on the move did not have a place where to stay cause there was no camp created there. And the mayor of the town say that they can use this field and stay. So there was a field. And then like independent organizations or independent movements like No Name Kitchen or others will be building tents, will be providing blankets and showers and so on, because the institutional organizations were doing pretty much nothing.And at the moment, they were like around 1000 people. There, it was already very difficult to cross and there were already a lot of pushbacks, so it was really difficult to cross. And some people stayed there for two years. So imagine how many wow pushbacks can it be that people can stay there up to two years.And the local people were also very nice. They will go to this camp, which is called... to this field. And will bring food, will bring clothes, will spend their cooking together, time with people because they were, lot of families, a lot of children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco.And so. So it was actually very nice to see. And also from our side with the local people. Local people really welcome us very nicely, because they knew that we are going there to help and they were actually very worried to see all these people in the move suffering so much. You know, because also, it's very hard for them.You have to understand that in Bosnia was a very bad, cruel war, not so long time ago. Right. When you see yourself, that you need to see how children are walking in the night pretty much cold because they were just pushed back with their families. And then you see people with bruises in their faces and things like that.It is also very hard for the Bosnian people. Mm-hmm. But despite that, they were very welcoming and very nice. When the months start passing, the police start criminalizing the humanitarian aids. So, that means that, for example, there was this family that had some people in the move living in their place for free and then the police put them a fine of like, it was like 1000-2000 thousand Euro, which is lot of money for Bosnian income.Then if you have a bar and people can enter your bar, police will go to disturb you. So then in many bars, it started to be written and which is very sad to say and to imagine, but this happens, "migrants not allowed," in the door. Mm, [00:25:23] Chris: because the local people were also being harassed or under threat as a result.[00:25:28] Barbara: So the police will disturb very much the owners of the bars, right. ...where they welcomed people on the move. And then with the time also, because there are many places that do not accept people on the move. Then if you accept people on the move, many people will be there because there is not so many places anymore where they can spend the day.Like, having a coffee, being a pretty woman. So the criminalization of the people on the move started, like actually when the money from European Union came and then a camp was built, finally. A lot of money came. The institutional organizations obviously took over this money to build the camp, and then this speech started because there were like fights, who is going to manage the camps and so on. Then, for example, as it happens everywhere, because this is not exclusively in Kladusa, as it happens everywhere, whenever there are any elections, migrants are used for getting votes. No. So, for example, in 2020 after the lockdown, which was already a very hard period, there were elections in the north of Bosnia, and then the politicians used the migrants for their speech.And a lot of hate speech was spread. So, and even was local people would organize themselves to go and beat migrants. So, it changed from being super nice to the thought that these people are not good. European Union keeps exposing these people. European Union authorities send a lot of money to the borders to keep these people out of the European Union.So something might be wrong with them. European Union feels with the right to beat these people in their faces. To push them back and also with violence. So maybe these people are not so worth it. So, it's like how all these actions that come from all these European Indian countries are dehumanizing people.In a very bad way. Also, people will complain like, "ah, because the people are not clean," and of course they're not clean because the authorities cut the access to water, so they main access to water so you can have a proper shower was cut for a while. Things like that. So it seems very much from the moment that everybody was super welcoming to the opposite.And this is very much related with the speech that EU sends to the people who are trying to seek asylum. [00:27:33] Chris: Mm. So you think that this change in the way that people perceive these people on the move and the flows of people, it comes from the top down that it's a diffusion of EU based, state-based, language that then gets diffused as it rolls down the pyramid as it makes its way into social media, for example.[00:27:59] Barbara: Yeah, sure. The thing is that if the main authority, the main one is sending millions of euros and they say always, you can listen to Ursula von der Leyen for example, who is the president of the European Commission. She will say like, we're sending money to fight mafias of human trafficking.We're sending money to reinforce the borders, to protect our borders. You need to protect our borders because someone wants to attack the border, right? Mm-hmm. You're getting this work protection, right? Are we protecting from a six year old child from Syria? We're protecting from this actually. So, but when you're using these speech, you're making the people understand that we need to get protected from them.So that means these people are dangerous, right? Mm-hmm. And you're telling this. You're sending millions of euros every year to protect the borders and to fight against human trafficking mafias. This is what they say. It's not me. So, of course, a person who is sitting on her house and knows that some people that in her town, there is 800 people, for example, walking that she doesn't know, she would believe like, "ah, these people are dangerous" because what you, what what this woman who has authorities telling the television openly.Right? [00:29:08] Chris: I had an interview with Fiore Longo, who's a representative of Survival International, one of the oldest NGOs in Europe, in the world. And in that interview, she spoke at length about how the major NGOs in the conservation world, World Wildlife Fund, African Parks, and the rest of them, were essentially collaborating with state governments in Africa in order to push indigenous people off their traditional lands, in order to create national parks or national reserves or ecotourism organizations or companies. And I'm curious within the context of the border crises in Europe, how No Name Kitchen sees these much larger NGOs, the ones that I imagine getting money from governments and also helping to change government policy. [00:30:08] Barbara: We, as No Name Kitchen movement do not get any money from the European Union nor from governments. Why? Because if you as European commission are sending these millions of euros to "protect borders," how they say. To close the borders, while you are allowing the pushbacks because the pushbacks are being denounced.We brought this information to the European Parliament. It is there. It's not a secret. Everybody knows this happening. So, if you ask a European commission are sending all these big amounts of money, but then this European commission is sending also lots of money to these people that are rejected and that are abused at the borders, to create camps for them.Yeah, you can imagine how much this European Commission cares these people and how much nice might be these camps. Those camps are catastrophic, horrible. And many people have a lot of scabies. Many people have diseases from bedbugs and come to us actually to ask for cure because they are ignored.So the big institutional organizations, and I don't gonna say names because I'm talking on behalf of No Name Kitchen are many times inside of these camps and are getting money to manage these camps, which many times are like this. And sometimes there is no bedsheet at all. It's just this old, dirty mattress, what people can find when they entering the camp. And so you are getting these huge millions of money from the European Union and then you are keeping quiet about the abuses at the borders, what is this?Everybody can know which organizations they are because actually information is there. And normally they have these big advertisements showing people also, this is something that makes me very angry, because as I tell you, they are people. They're in different circumstances that we're, right now. They're same like you, and they were in their country, living a normal life until something happen.But they don't like to see themselves in this situation. Imagine that you are like now and then a war starts there, and then you need to see yourself asking for shoes, asking for food. This is catastrophe. This is very complicated. This is really difficult for them. But then they get these advertisements on the TV showing people like, "hi, these poor refugees, they need our help. Look these poor children, how much they need our help." But also you're kinda dehumanizing them a little bit. No, because you're showing them as these poor people that didn't know how to do the things by themselves when actually people on the move, in general, they are the bravest people I have ever met.Cause really this journey is something that you really, really need to be a brave person because the most of people will not do the journey. They stay in a calm area closer to their countries. And then they show them like these poor people, like if they will really not have power to change their situation and it's never like this.But then they make these advertisements, obviously. They not only get money from the European Union, but also from donors that with all their good intention want to support these poor people in their refugee camps. For example, Greece put this rule in 2020. This refugee camp, it was at the detention center, but like really like a jail of maximum security. That you really cannot leave this place. So if there is this government making these rules that against the human rights, keeping people into detention center, that's because you're applying for a asylum.But your asylum is, is being analyzed. Why, EU as an institutional organization are supposed to work for the human rights are supporting this and supporting these decisions from the government and then the government will say, "okay, now this kind of organization cannot be anymore in the camps." Then you don't denounce this publicly. You keep quiet about the situation inside of the camps. So are we really here for the people's rights? Or you're here because of your money.[00:33:37] Chris: Wow. And I'm curious about this notion of open borders in the context of tourism as well. Right. Because tourism operates largely on this notion of open borders. Those who can fly, those who can travel, those who have the right passports can go wherever they want.Although you have to go through customs, you have to go through security when you go to a new country, of course, and usually there's limits on how long you can stay and things like that. Generally, the pro-immigration movements there is also very much this kind of discourse, this fight for open borders in terms of asylum seekers and essentially making it easier to create that kind of hospitality that's needed for people in flight, people in exile.And so I'm curious about the dynamic between the two. Right? In a lot of places in southern Europe especially, you see graffiti that says, "migrants, welcome. Tourists, go home." Right? And so I'm curious what you think of these two major avenues or channels of movement in the world between tourism and then the movement of people in flight or in exile.[00:34:56] Barbara: Mm-hmm. Yeah, actually tourism is seen as a very positive thing. And then we already know that actually the reason doesn't necessarily need to be positive.It can make very expensive, your city. If we talk about some countries in the world, it can bring you some pedophiles too; misuse and abuse children. You know, like tourism can bring many good things, many bad things, like everything in life. No. Right. We always say that we don't cross borders, borders crossed us, separate us.So in Spain, for example. I say Spain because it's my country and we also operate there. To listen like, "ah, because we need more children because you know, like birth rate is pretty low," and it's true that we are not having so many children anymore. And we young people and then this and that, but then we have all these people who are, have migrated already, who are living in Spain from different countries, and who are young people that will be ready to study and to get education and to start working pretty fast because we are talking about people who are maybe like teenagers. And so, but the system doesn't try to help them. Doesn't really put any effort. You know, in a Spain, there is one term that is "MENA," to speak about people who have migrated, who are children. So, they normally the fastest called the MENA just to dehumanize one person, because you're using just these letters, you know, MENA means like "Menor Extranjera, Non-Acompanado" (Unaccompanied Underage Foreigner). So you're using just this term look out children, you know, so it's a way of criminalizing them and at the same time, there are no proper initiatives to integrate these people to the system, for example. Then at the same time, we have a lot of tourism and now we have this digital nomad visa.Hmm. So look, in order you get the digital nomad visa, you need to have a pretty high income. Yeah. Right. So, that means that actually this, okay, " these people come to my town and then they'll have a lot of money." But yeah, they can make very expensive here your city. I don't know if you've seen both in Libson and in Medellin there is already protest against digital nomads because they're making everything expensive. Also in Medellin, it seems that prositution Increases, so rich people are abusing people who are poor, women, of course, who are poor.And it raise the prostitution according to what I read and what I report because I also write about these kind of things with colleagues that I interviewed. So yeah, I know, like for example, it's not open borders. Open borders. Last year we were telling, that if we will allow the people who are in the Balkans to enter European Union and to ask for asylum, and also we're asking those of Europe to respect their own law.We're not asking for something very big. We're telling them respect your own law and your own international agreements and respect the human rights. Yeah. Which is basic. We always told like if these people who were in the Balkans were not so much, really, not so much would enter, there would not be crisis anymore.All this s**t would not be happening. And last year we could see when Ukrainian war started and selling millions of people who arriving into European Union countries and could get a house very fast. The children could go to study in short time. They could get integrated into the system in very few times.So this means that we are being racist because why we can host, I don't know how many millions of people born in Ukraine and keeping the war in Ukraine and we cannot host some thousand people who come from Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan. This is racism, basically. Mm-hmm. Because in the Balkans, you find families who are three years in the Balkans, who have children. Three years without going to school.People who are getting themselves poor. You know, people when they left, it's not so easy to do this, this trip. It's very expensive. It's very hard. They have a business, for example, in Afghanistan, and then they go threatened by the Talibans or the one that the children are taken by the talibans to fight whatever.And then they say, okay, let's sell our business. Let's sell our house, our lands. They call this money and let's go to search for the future for our family. Then, they see themselves three years and the children don't go to school, that they cannot work, that they spend all their money every day. Cause there is no way to really find a job or get an income.So finally, this is racism. All this difference between a person comes from Ukraine and a person that is coming from Syria. [00:39:20] Chris: Wow. In regards to the relationships that are built between the Kitcheners of No Name Kitchen and the asylum seekers, do any of those friendships end up developing once those people have found a place to settle, a place to stay?[00:39:41] Barbara: Yeah, yeah, of course. It's true that now, it's not so easy to be spend time together because the police is really much disturbing you because you're giving a jacket to someone. So, it doesn't allow you to spend so much time anymore, together. But in general, what we promote in No Name Kitchen and what is very important for us, that we are really together.No, because we are people. All of us, we are people, just in different circumstances. We're actually all of us migrants. Some of them are local people as well, that are supporting us. Cause many local people support our activities. Maybe not always so active because finance is very tired to be every day in your own hometown doing these things.I'm facing all these challenges. For us it's very important to create networks of trust and mutual understanding. So, it's not only you are helping someone. No, no, it is not about this. It's about, you are there, you are learning with a, with a person. We are spending time with a person.It's amazing for me being volunteer with No Name Kitchen is amazing because you can learn so much. You can meet so much amazing people. And I tell you that I'm here with a colleague that she was with me in Bosnia. And then next week, some friends who live in different European countries are gonna come to visit us. One is originally from Syria. The other originally from Pakistan. Mm-hmm. They're gonna come here to visit because now they are already have made their lives. One is living in France. The other is living in the Netherlands. They have their papers, everything, so now they can travel freely around European Union.So this is very, very, very important for us. And actually these networks are very valuable because maybe some person arrives later to some country and then this person has already friends in this country. Mm. [00:41:16] Chris: Right. And in some instances, some of the people do end up returning, or maybe not returning is the right word, but reuniting with No Name Kitchen and other places to help perhaps serve those on the move for a time.[00:41:30] Barbara: Yeah. Like taking papers in Europe, it takes very long, so it's not so easy. And we started only in 2017. So many of the people that we know, they're still on the way to get papers. Really long process. No, but for example, there is this friend of me who is from Iran and I met him in Kladusa, in Bosnia, and now he's living in France.And the other day he wrote me. He was with two colleagues of me that he also met them in Bosnia and he was visiting them and the newborn baby they have been. And he would really like to come to volunteer with No Name Kitchen because now he has documents that he could. But at same time, because of the working conditions finally in this racist work, sometimes cannot be the same for everybody.Right. So he doesn't have the chance to just get one whole month to come. But at some point, yeah, he's thinking about coming. It can be difficult cause then I tell you that police sometimes are chasing people who are not white. So, sometimes it can be difficult, but at the same time. But yeah. Well the idea is like many of our friends now at some point will start not getting, or are getting documents. So, this is a network of people with people and for people. Mm [00:42:31] Chris: mm Amazing. Yeah. It does remind me of the philosophies and practices of mutual aid, (of apoyo mutuo). [00:42:38] Barbara: But it's very important. The other day I was telling to my therapist because I go to the therapy because of the stress.Yeah. So, we're talking about. And last time I was on the field and then she was telling like, yeah, " who helps you when you're helping?" It's like no, you cannot imagine like people on the move have really tried to help you, as well.You know? Like they cannot help us with that distribution. They can help us giving a lot of support. For example, when I was living in Bosnia and I had like a free day, I would go to my friends, to their squats. They had a very warm stove there. And I would be as there, they would cook for me, know, we would be playing board games, we would be laughing and that was my holiday.And for me that was a great moment, where to spend my free day, with them, and they would be taking care of me because they knew I was very stressed and they wanted me to be spoiled one day.[00:43:28] Chris: It's beautiful. Really beautiful. Yeah. The kind of hospitality that can arise in times of conflict, right? Mm-hmm. And so in a time of border crises seems to exist in so many parts of the world, so few people at least in my purview or my understanding actually know about these border crises or understand the complexity around them.And so I'm curious what kind of advice you might have for people who are either critical of immigration or people who want to understand the issues more deeply, and of course those who support asylum secrets. [00:44:16] Barbara: Yeah, I mean finally we're in the era of information, right? So if you wanna get information, good information, because you need to identify the misinformation sources.If you wanna get good information, there is a lot. So yes, please get informed and also go with people that have migrating and talk to them. Cause you'll meet them and you'll spend a lot of time with them and then you'll see how are their stories behind. And also, I really recommend people to get more information about this because I cannot believe that in the 21st century we are using the money of our taxes to pay for torture.This is just insane because this is torture, really, what is happening at the borders of the European Union. And I guess many people in European Union countries do not want their taxes to be spent like this. But at the same time, they don't get informed about this. There are so many sources of information. From us in our social media, we keep informing on a daily basis about the different things that are happening always. But in general, there are very good newspapers all over in different languages where you can get good information and also go to people and talk to people. [00:45:21] Chris: Yeah. It's I mean, go to people and talk to the people. The people that you know, you would perhaps not even talk to, just criticize, without having anything to do with.Right. And that most of those people that have an incredible unwillingness, like they're willing to criticize, but they're not willing to go and talk to the people who they're criticizing. Right. And it's really interesting because as you were talking about earlier, you know, Lisbon and Medellin and the backlash against digital nomads and things like that.This is happening as well in Oaxaca although against tourists in general. Some people ask me like, well, what do we do? And, and I say, well, why don't you go talk to the tourists? Ask them why they're here. Ask them what their life is like, because there's this image, this single or singular image of the tourist and it's a caricature, it's a stereotype, and it says that all tourists are exactly the same. They come for the same reasons. They do the same things. And they have nothing to do with us, right? They're totally the opposite of who we are and all of this stuff.And it's very, very similar to the way that people especially people who speak poorly of immigrants or people on the move also view this and just this unwillingness to speak with the other, right. Hmm. So much to consider. My plate is full with all you've offered today. And I'm deeply grateful to have been on the receiving end of your words today. I'm curious, Barbara how might our listeners get involved in No Name Kitchen?How might they find out more and follow your work online. [00:47:05] Barbara: Yeah, welcome everybody. We have Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. And also now we started some months ago in TikTok. But yeah, we're on social media and also we try very much to always report everything we know, so people on the move know that they can rely on us if they want to denounce something publicly. And here we are for that. Welcome everybody to follow our task and to get to know more about the situation at the borders.[00:47:31] Chris: Thank you so much. On behalf of our listeners, it's been an honor to speak with you and, and to really get a deeper perspective onto these notions of exile and immigration and borders and border crises happening in the world now. So I'm really grateful for your willingness to speak with us today and to be able to add that layer to the conversation. [00:47:53] Barbara: Thanks very much to you for, invite us, for, invite me, for give voice to the situation and everybody welcome to follow what we do.Thank you very much. [00:48:01] Chris: Thank you, Barbara. Take care. [00:48:04] Barbara: Take care. Bye. 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Gabriella Papatzimas, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, has always had a strong connection to her Greek heritage. Growing up in the Greek community at Holy Trinity in Phoenix, she embraced the language, culture, and traditions from an early age. As a first-generation Greek-American, Gabriella's first language is Greek, and she takes immense pride in her roots.After completing her Bachelor's degree in Political Science at Arizona State, Gabriella embarked on a career in Real Estate Tech as a People Manager.She also dedicated her time as a Greek School teacher for 11 years, helping younger generations stay connected to their heritage. When not teaching or working, she dedicated her time to Greek dancing which became a great love of hers from the moment she could walk and has since been immersed in the dance program for 28+ years.In 2009, she embraced the role of a Greek Dance Instructor (shoutout to her first group, Seismos). Three years later, in 2012, she proudly took her first group to the FDF, accompanied by her godbrother, Niko Panagiotakopoulos, representing Holy Trinity Dance Program - Phoenix. Since then, she has been taking groups to competitions year after year. Building upon her passion, she embarked on a new venture in 2022, joining forces with Evangelos Tsagaris to bringing Arizona representation to HDF with the Assumption Dance Program.To Gabriella, Greek dancing is more than just a hobby—it is a vital way to preserve and celebrate her heritage. She firmly believes that Greek culture should be cherished and passed down, regardless of where people call home. Through her involvement as an instructor, Gabriella Papatzimas tirelessly works to ensure that Greek traditions thrive by attending workshops in the United States and spending weekends doing research with her co-directors.Niko Panagiotakopoulos was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona where he studied Electrical Engineering and is now a licensed General Contractor. While his father was born in Athens, his grandparents were from Peloponiso in Tripoli, Patras, and Pyrgos keeping him connected to his Greek heritage!Niko has been involved in greek dancing from a young age at Holy Trinity Cathedral, dancing since he could walk, and being the crazy kid running around his mothers dance practices while she spent years as the program director. Niko's first FDF was at 8 years old I'm Pasadena and he has only missed one year since then, and started attending HDF as well in 2022! His last year dancing as a student was also his first year as an Instructor in 2011.Since 2011 Niko has attended many workshops from California to Charlotte, bringing instructors like Joe Graziosi and Jordan Elrod to Phoenix, and visiting Greece every summer seeking out workshops and panegiria. In 2017 Niko took the helm as the Program Director at Holy Trinity and has loved growing his community and keeping his culture alive!Episode Music: The Anemos Music Project

Heena Patel is the chef and co-owner of Besharam in San Francisco. Chef Patel shows us the secrets to making patras, fried hoja santa leaves, served with micro greens, peanut chutney, and crunchy masala peanuts. “Patras” means “palm leaf layers” and is an Indian dish of fried leaves stuffed with a spiced chickpea flour batter. Her mom used to make the dish using taro leaves, but at her restaurant Chef Heena Patel uses hoja santa leaves. Watch the full documentary and find plant-forward recipes here!

Show Time, enjoy this week's episode hosted by Greek Dj & Producer DJ FREESPIRIT. At the turn of the century, Greek output Sotiris Felonis turned his head to a new sound, and a new vision, with the aptly named DJ Freespirit. This name was soon to become synonymous with the lorded gates of Cavo Paradiso of Mykonos, one of the worlds finest open-air venues, and furthered Sotiris' heart for electronic music to new heights. Coming from the urban depths of Patras, that booms in a wealth of artistic & commercial culture, Sotiris bridged his passion for electronics and music to coin a brand that thrives in all notions of house music. From the deep to the dark, the techy to the progressive, his is a passion that was inspired by house-hold names such as Laurent Garnier, Danny Tenaglia, Chus & Ceballos and even further afield. Riding the Greek onslaught of continually growing dance music talent Freespirit has ventured into uncharted territories across Europe in both his production, and DJ career by having seen releases on imprints such as Lapsus ,Go Deeva, Wired, Rhythmetic and Glory Hill Studio, and taking to the finer foreign club-lands of Cocoon, amongst many more. His latest release ‘Hola' forms part of La Santa's new VA REDOLENT SCENTS (Blended by La Santa) Vol. 2. Enjoy this Organic Afro uplifting journey with DJ FREESPIRIT including his last release ‘Hola' as part of REDOLENT SCENTS VOL.2 (Blended by La Santa) on Redolent! 01. Maxi Meraki feat. Starvin Yet Full - Home (Malone RMX)
 02. Rosario Galati, Yves Murasca - Lo Que Siento (Dilby Extended Remix) 03. HVMZA - Mogo
 04. Joezi, Anorre - The Sun 
 05. Dj Freespirit - Hola REDOLENT
 06. Demayä - Shadows (feat. Aleksandra Krstic) 
07. La Santa, Coco - Parle Moi REDOLENT
 08. Analog Sol - Lostalgia 
09. Notre Dame - Yumi
 10. Fahlberg - Since I Fell For You (DUB)
 11. Rony Seikaly - Out Of Time (Extended Mix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

Est-ce que je suis responsable ? Est-ce que ma marque est responsable ? Est-ce que le marketing ça peut être autre chose que de pousser les autres à consommer? À surconsommer ? Cette question je l'ai posée à mon invitée Charlène Patras pour comprendre comment on pouvait allier marketing et responsabilité. Si vous vous êtes déjà posé la question sans trouver les moyens concrets d'y répondre, cet épisode est fait pour vous. Pour en savoir plus sur Charlène Patras, vous pouvez suivre son profil LinkedIn. ---------------

Miles is joined by Megan Laverty (Columbia, USA) and Evgenia Mylonaki (Patraas, Greece) to discuss their joint reading of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. You can find out substantive handout for the podcast where they highlight their reading here: Megan is an Associate Professor and Director of the Philosophy and Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She teaches graduate courses on ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of education. Megan is the author of Iris Murdoch's Ethics: A Consideration of her Romantic Vision (Bloomsbury, 2007) and contributed a chapter on civility to The Murdochian Mind (Routledge, 2022) https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ml2524/ Evgenia is assistant professor of Practical Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Patras, Greece. Her written work is primarily in ethics (moral experience and virtuous reasoning) and the philosophy of action (metaphysics of action, practical knowledge, and rationality). She is the co-editor of the book Reason in Nature (out in 2022 by HUP, co-edited with Matthew Boyle, University of Chicago). https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241046 She works on the philosophies of Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot and I have a special philosophical interest in animal lives, in the collapse of ways of living and in art (film, photography and the novel). I am currently working on a book project with the title "Moral Growth; A Study of Ethics in Experience". You can find her published work, and her website, via these links. https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/the-individual-in-pursuit-of-the-individual-a-murdochian-account/16322292 https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8654130/18852 https://www.evgeniamylonaki.net/

Dawn breaks on the 7th October 1571 over the Gulf of Patras. On this day, the Holy League will face down the Ottomans in one of the most pivotal battles in Ottoman history. Listen as William and Anita are once again joined by Barnaby Rogerson to discuss the Battle of Lepanto, its significance, and whether it really was the last crusade. LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/xempire Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

Full Text of ReadingsFeast of Saint Andrew, Apostle Lectionary: 684All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint AndrewAndrew was Saint Peter's brother, and was called with him. “As [Jesus] was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is now called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, ‘Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.' At once they left their nets and followed him” (Matthew 4:18-20). John the Evangelist presents Andrew as a disciple of John the Baptist. When Jesus walked by one day, John said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” Andrew and another disciple followed Jesus. “Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, ‘What are you looking for?' They said to him, ‘Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are you staying?' He said to them, ‘Come, and you will see.' So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day” (John 1:38-39a). Little else is said about Andrew in the Gospels. Before the multiplication of the loaves, it was Andrew who spoke up about the boy who had the barley loaves and fishes. When the Gentiles went to see Jesus, they came to Philip, but Philip then had recourse to Andrew. Legend has it that Andrew preached the Good News in what is now modern Greece and Turkey and was crucified at Patras on an X-shaped cross. Reflection As in the case of all the apostles except Peter and John, the Gospels give us little about the holiness of Andrew. He was an apostle. That is enough. He was called personally by Jesus to proclaim the Good News, to heal with Jesus' power and to share his life and death. Holiness today is no different. It is a gift that includes a call to be concerned about the Kingdom, an outgoing attitude that wants nothing more than to share the riches of Christ with all people. Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of: Fishermen Greece Russia Scotland Enjoy this recipe in honor of Saint Andrew! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Friends of the Rosary: On November 30th, Catholics worldwide celebrate the feast of St. Andrew, apostle and martyr. He was a fisherman from Bethsaida, a former disciple of John the Baptist, and the brother of Peter. He was the one who introduced his brother Peter to Jesus, saying, “We have found the Messiah.” Overshadowed by his brother, Andrew nevertheless appears in the Gospels as introducing souls to Christ. Today, St. Andrew's feast is a signal of the beginning of Advent. After Pentecost, Andrew took up the apostolate on a much wider scale, spreading Christianity in Russia and Asia minor. He was crucified by the Romans in Patras in southern Greece on an X-shaped cross, which is now his distinctive symbol as well as the symbol of Scotland, of which he is the patron. This type of cross has long been known as “St. Andrew's cross.” Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! St. Andrew, Pray for Us! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York • November 30, 2021, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches on the feast of St. Andrew, Apostle, in Lyncroft Centre, Toronto. Saint Andrew is said to have preached the Gospel in Greece. There, in the city of Patras, he was martyred; he died nailed to a cross, like his divine Master. The priests of Achaia who witnessed his death write that his desire to be identified with Christ was so great that when he was being led toward the place of his martyrdom and saw the cross in the distance, he began to cry out what became a famous prayer; O bona crux, quæ decórem ex membris Dómini suscepísti "O good cross, made beautiful by the body of the Lord; long have I desired you, ardently have I loved you, unceasingly have I sought you out; and now you are ready for my eager soul. Receive me from among men and restore me to my Master, so that by means of you He may receive me who by means of you redeemed me.” Music: Carlos Gardel, Amores de Estudiante, arranged for guitar by Bert Alink 2018 Public domain in Canada. Thumbnail: Guillaume Courtois, Painting of the martyrdom of St. Andrew in the church of San Andrea Al Quirinale designed by G-L Bernini in Rome, 17th century.

Feast of St. Andrew, apostle; brother of Simon Peter; legend says the he preached in what is now modern Greece and Turkey, and was crucified at Patras on an X-shaped cross, about 60 A.D. Wednesday of the First Week of Advent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/30/22 Gospel: Matthew 4:18-22

Welcome to this edition of Aphasia Access Conversations, a series of conversations about topics in aphasia that focus on the LPAA model. My name is Janet Patterson, and I am a Research Speech Language Pathologist at the VA Northern California Health Care System in Martinez, California. These Show Notes follow the conversation between Dr. Papathanasiou and myself, but are not an exact transcript.   Dr. Ilias Papathanasiou is a Professor of Speech and Language Therapy at the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Patras, and a Research Associate at the Voice and Swallowing Clinic, the First ENT Clinic of the Medical School of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has received numerous awards and recognition for his tireless efforts on behalf of aphasia awareness and rehabilitation research in the international community.  In today's episode you will hear about: considering LPAA values across social, cultural and international norms, increasing aphasia awareness through actions in the local community, mentoring speech-language pathologists who are learning about aphasia and LPAA in countries initiating aphasia rehabilitation services. Dr. Janet Patterson: As Ilias and I start this podcast, I want to give you a quick reminder that this year we are sharing episodes that highlight at least one of the gap areas in aphasia care identified in the Aphasia Access, State of Aphasia report, authored by Dr. Nina Simmons-Mackie. For more information on this report, check out Podversations episode # 62 with Dr. Liz Hoover, as she describes these 10 gap areas or go to the Aphasia Access website. This episode with Dr. Papathanasiou focuses on gap area number seven, insufficient or absent communication access for people with aphasia or other communication disorders, and gap area 10, failure to address family and caregiver needs including information, support, counseling, and communication training. I hope our conversation today sheds additional light on these gap areas.    With that introduction, I would like to extend a warm welcome to my friend and noted aphasiologist, Dr. Ilias Papathanasiou. Welcome Ilias and thank you for joining me today on Aphasia Access Podversations.   Dr. Ilias Papathanasiou: Thank you very much for this kind invitation. I'm thrilled to be with you and speak about aphasia from a rather international perspective. As you know, I have been trained in UK, I work in Greece, and have been active in many places around the world and working with developing countries, for people with aphasia.   Janet: Ilias, I'm just thrilled to have you here, and as a side note to our listeners, Ilias and I have already been talking for about an hour sharing wonderful stories about aphasia and international aphasia. Sadly, most of that won't be caught on this particular tape, but I hope a good bit of it will, because Ilias, you are a fount of information, not only about aphasia, but also about aphasia and the international community. Let me start by saying that our listeners, Ilias, are likely very familiar with the LPAA model, which as we all know, places the person with aphasia at the center of decision-making, to support them in achieving their real-life goals and reduce the adverse consequence of aphasia. How do you think social and cultural norms play a role in understanding the LPAA model?   Ilias: This is a very interesting question, which we'll have to answer. But first of all, I think we have to start with what is aphasia and how the implications of aphasia start in the community. I will say, aphasia is a language impairment, first of all, which is related from the focal lesion, which has, of course, great effects on the person with aphasia, on the quality of life, on the social network and the person, on the making friendships, on how the person functions, and the everyday environment. Now, how the person functions in the everyday environment, is related to many, many social norms. I have been working for 15 years in UK and then back to Greece. And I think that's changed my perspective. What is the social role? What the social model can offer in aphasia, because we have two different societies so they believe there are too many different societies around the world which can see aphasia as a different perspective. Taking the example from Greece, I think Greece has got a much-closed family network and supportive network comparing with other developing countries. I mean, the traditional Greece accepted that people will live with or very near their children, will have family nearby, they have their friends nearby, and they will try to - the family - to take the leadership support of the person with aphasia. This is something which might be a bit different with the USA. So in this way, the decision relies on the person and their LPAA approach of getting together and having a chat, which is not what it is for me. It is totally different, it is different in that there you have to help the participation for these people. From this perspective, I will say that life participation approach, if you take a very more wide perspective, is how we take behavior. How we take behaviors doing therapy, not only to the linguistic background because we have to start from there, you know, it's a language impairment, but also to changing behaviors of the people surrounding, to the society, and even to the government policy some time. And there's not only you know, intervening to the benefit to the person and facilitated the person which of course is correct, it's not only that. I will bring the examples. How many hospitals around the world are aphasia friendly? How many documents used by the government are aphasia friendly? And they think this access to solve this information is restricted to the people with aphasia. That is not only in USA, but I think is around the world and even you know, in different parts of the world. Some other movements of people with special skills, for example, people with visual impairment, or hearing impairment, they have been around much longer than the people with aphasia, and perhaps their network, their lobby has achieved much more changes on their policy or in the government. But for people with aphasia, this has not been the case as yet. I think this is something which can work because life participation has to be multi-directional. It is not only to change. The direction of a life participation approach, as I have to say, is a market direction, is multimodal. It has to start even from changing the attitude of the person with aphasia, changing the attitudes of the people surrounding aphasia. Telling you that you are of the society in which they move. Perhaps look at the activities which there are. But most important, changing also the government issues, the policy issues, so to make the environment to enable the person with aphasia to participate. It is very different that in Greece, perhaps, we do not have this approach as you expect in USA. Because as I said in the beginning, there is very close family network, which take that role quite importantly, and there are cases that the family will take out the person, because their close family relations, the person will continue to participate in everyday activities with the family, and perhaps helping them to be as active in the social roles as they were before.   Janet: That makes a lot of sense. You really need to think about the LPAA model with respect to the culture where a person with aphasia lives and where their families are. Let me ask you also, Ilias, in Greece, where you live and practice, how do persons with aphasia participate in speech-language treatment, and you've talked about there isn't really a practice model like LPAA, but it's more of folding the person with aphasia into the family. How do people with aphasia participate in speech-language pathology, and then move into the family?   Ilias: Speech-language pathology in Greece is very new. So, some of the public hospitals do not have a speech pathologist, yet. The first graduates from the Greek programs is about 20 years ago. It's really new and most of them have been focused on pediatrics. The rehabilitation of adults and especially with aphasia is very new in Greece. Also now we have started having some rehabilitation centers. People with aphasia are facing rehabilitation on the acute states in the hospitals, people will stay there for three or four days, having the medical checkup, and then move to a rehab unit. In the rehab unit, which will stay for two or three months, they will have more impairment-based one to one therapy on a daily basis. And then, but surrounding them at the rehabilitation center, is always the family member, which will be visit them daily, taking them to activities and whatever. And then in most of the cases the person will move back to the family. They might continue rehabilitation with an outpatient, private speech therapist, which the family supports at home. This setup will help them integrate within the family network. And usually, you know, people are still looking after, say, if they are married and live as a couple, the woman or the man will look after them, take them out to activities that simply would come around, and help, and take them to the different activities and everyday events, helping them to go out and socialize within the family network. We are still in the network that people are visiting each other, you know, the social events and the family events very often, which is quite important. The person still carries on the routine, and there is the physical disability that might restrict the person to go out, but the family will find a way to communicate and have some activities of what they want to do. And usually, I will say, that the integration after is more related to the family. Now, that can happen, I will say about 70%, 75% to 80% of the cases. Still there will be cases with no family and no support or whatever. In that case, there will be some nursing homes. They're very limited, the nursing homes. Someone would go to a nursing home if they are totally dependent on physical abilities, like they cannot walk, not take food and tube fed or whatever. The rest will be with supports in the family.    On the other hand, what has happened in the last years is that people pay privately, a carer to be with the person with aphasia, or an elderly person. Most likely the carer be an immigrant from another country and perhaps they do not speak the language. From that perspective, the family will go in and help this person. And that's how it helps. You have to look at what is a norm for an elderly person with aphasia. Not another person with aphasia, but what is known for an elderly patient in Greece. Say if someone retired, then what she likes to do usually in Greece, is to be close to the family and see the grandchildren, to be close to do some activities. Some of them they might have a summer house with they go and spend some time with the grandchildren there. So again, for a person without aphasia the activities will be surrounded the family. This continues to exit. So, if someone with aphasia has the grandchildren coming to his house and play, and he wants them, that will be a quality of life for him, to see them and play and communicate. This is very nice because this will give him a motive to do things for himself. But also, the kids will be aware of what is aphasia, and what happened, and that will increase in some ways awareness.   Janet: It sounds like there is a lot of responsibility the family members assume for integrating the person with aphasia into the daily activities and their daily roles, and the fun and the work of family life.   Ilias: This is happening in all aspects. The elderly people stay with the family, stay connected. You know, I will not think that Greek person will leave the parents away from them. It's like you know, they will help and will support them. They might not live together but there will be close family support   Janet: Ilias, you work in a university clinic. At that clinic how do you implement the ideas of client- centered practice or LPAA in your work and your work with students,   Ilias: I don't work directly with aphasia at the university clinic, I work on the voice and swallowing clinic. I teach about aphasia with my students. What I say to them is give them is examples from every day. Usually in my classes there is discussion of the psycholinguistic, cognitive neuro model. And also, there are different lectures of putting them into their functional or community participation approach with aphasia. There are no projects in Greece, like clubs with people with aphasia and community settings where they can go. And from one perspective, I'm not sure if we need that. First is from the family, from the personal view. You don't take the people who have aphasia and put them in another place with people with aphasia, to interact only among them. The point is to integrate them in the community activities and not to you know, go from the house to another room because they will meet another 10 people, unless there are community activities for them to do.  The community activities surrounding it are doing the things which you can do before. What I tried to do with my students is first to teach them to find out what an elderly person needs; how the elderly person communicates. It is very common in Greece to have the coffee shops where people go and have a coffee and play cards. I said to them, go and play cards with your grandfather to see how he communicates, to see what he feels, to see what he needs. If you learn to play cards with your grandfather and your grandparents, you will learn to communicate with a person with an aphasia, because really you have to approach the level and the needs of that person. That is my philosophy with my students - go interact with the people on different events and not be so centered to yourself, and what you think. Go and find out what they want. So we tried to create activities within the class, which we will look on these different perspectives. There is no settings like nursing homes, which they have got people with aphasia in Greece, because people are living in their own homes, about 80% - 90%. The family is there. What we mean by the life participation approach is going back to the family life, going back to the community, because that is the most important to the person's needs and he wants to be close with a family.   Janet: As you're doing that, and teaching your students and role modeling, I imagine you might find some obstacles to actually implementing client-centered care. What obstacles do speech pathologists in Greece face? How do you and your colleagues work to mitigate those obstacles and implement the care principles similar to those of LPAA, when you're working with the patients with aphasia,   Janet: First, you know, there are some physical obstacles. For example, if you live in a big city like Athens, in a block of flats, not all of them are accessible. For people to get out of the house is not always very easy. That is an issue, in general and is not like the United States, where you have homes on one level; people can park outside their houses and get in and out. Here it is totally different. It is like having access in place in New York City with steps to go up in one of these big townhouses. It is not easy for a person with aphasia. Think about it, if you live in a townhouse in New York with ten steps to climb and go in, a person with aphasia cannot do that easily; with a stroke, not with aphasia. This is a similar situation in most places in Greece. Even the new buildings have to have access for people with disabilities, but still, we have flats from the 1960s and 1970s, who do not have access. There are physical obstacles for people to come out and get involved.    Then the other big thing which you have to change is the awareness of aphasia. For people to understand that this person does not have intelligence problem, and this is just a communication problem. And that the people, you know, have the executive function, to function and to communicate. People who do not have that in mind, you have to change this way of thinking. A few years back in Greece, people were saying, ”Oh, he had a stroke, now he lost his mind.” I believe this is nothing new, what's happened in Greece, this happened in other parts of the world, the thinking that aphasia affected the intelligence of the person. We tried to change that, to say that aphasia is something which you have. You lost the ability to use your language and to communicate, but still you are the same person, nothing has changed. You still have got your thoughts, your feelings, your loved ones, this has not changed. And as I told you, there is also some natural recovery in different ways. The example, which I gave you before, when we had the chat, when I saw my person from the village where I was born in Greece, when I was living in UK, there was no service for aphasia in Greece. He never had therapy and he was someone with Broca's Aphasia and severe apraxia. His wife was taking him every day to the coffee shop, which he used to do, to see the same people and watching the people play cards, and he has found the natural way of communicating. That I think, is very important because he kept the activities. He kept the roles and that is the social model of the life of the patient. It does not mean life participation is to go to a club to meet other people with aphasia. Life participation means to return back to what you want, and what is your everyday activities, your family, and what it is important to you to do. That's what I tried to do with my students, tried to put them into this modality of thinking that you have to take into account what the person of aphasia is, and what the environment they live. It says a person should return to these roles are soon as they can.   Janet: Those are wise words very, very wise words Ilias, I think, especially the idea about going into the coffee shop. That makes perfect sense is a way of beginning to communicate and establish a pattern between the two of you for communication.   Ilias: Yeah, but this person did develop a pattern of communication with no intervention. You will say then, what would a speech-language pathologist do in this situation. And I will say, the speech-language pathologist will go there from the beginning, might work on the linguistic impairment at the same time, show his wife and facilitate all these changes in the life they knew, and perhaps, if she found a way, two months or three months down the line, to take him to the coffee shop. She should start doing that earlier, taking him out to everyday activities which he used to do before. Sometimes, you know, we have to think we are overreacting. Perhaps we have things in our mind, the therapist, which we say, “oh, you should do that, you should do that, you should do that.” The person really is not aware of what we're suggesting, you know, what I mean? We're very motivated for people to do more things and more things and get involved. But actually, the person, that is not what you want. Some simple things in life can make these changes.   Janet: Exactly.    Ilias: Give them this space to make the choices of what is meaningful to them. The thing, you have to take that into account, and that's what I say from the beginning. The behavior changes, not only the linguistic skills and on the family, but also to us. How we're able to understand as clinicians where to stop participating in the social interaction with them. Some people are lazy, some have got a different network. It's not all you know, what we want to push them to do?   Janet: You're exactly right, because you may have wonderful ideas as a speech-language pathologist, but they don't match with what the person with aphasia would like to do. You must respect their ideas and their wishes.   Ilias: It is not only respect them, because we do, I want to believe that we respect the wishes. We have to teach ourselves to take that into account when we give these wonderful ideas. It is a skill not to push the people, you know, not to push people too far. You have to give them the space, and I think that is quite important, too.   Janet: Let me take this conversation in a slightly different direction. What you've been talking about a lot is really awareness and support and understanding the culture of where a person and how a person with aphasia lives, and how their family lives. But let me take you in a slightly different direction by asking about the papers that you have published on several topics helping people understand aphasia. I'm thinking mostly about your papers on public awareness of aphasia and assessing quality of life for persons with aphasia. Will you tell us a little bit about this line of research that you've been doing, and how you see it informing clinical practice for speech-language pathologists who believe in the LPAA model and patient-centered care   Ilias: Now, you are speaking with someone who has got a very wide background in research. I have to say that my first research and my Ph.D. was about neuroplasticity and connectivity. I did that back in London at the Institute of Neurology, with TMS and connectivity in the middle 1990s, before all this idea about plasticity and connectivity came out.  It was very lovely to work with them. At that point, this was not very popular. I don't know why, but now it is. Perhaps people are not aware about all this work I have done with connectivity in neuroplasticity, back in the 1990s, even though it is published. But it's written in different way.    But coming back to Greece, I have to say, you have to start from a different perspective. Why is that? Because I come from a country who has totally different needs, comparing with UK who have more organized research. I will take that as a guidance or an advice to people who are going back to their countries of developing. There are countries who do not have, you know, the research programs you have in USA, and that are still developing countries. When I came back to Greece, I had to start from somewhere. The things which I needed were tests to evaluate aphasia, I need to see what the public knows about aphasia, and even what are some networks about aphasia, I need to start from epidemiological data. Because unless you work on an epidemiological data, you will not be able to go to the government and say the policies, how many people with aphasia exist and what changed. At the same time, Katerina Hilari in UK was doing the work on quality of life. We did a project with her here in Greece on the validation of the quality-of-life approach, which Katerina has developed, and has been used in Greece as well. With Katerina, we developed the first efficacy study in the Greek language, because we have to prove that the linguistic difference makes a difference. We took the semantic feature analysis in a different perspective, which is more approachable to the Greek. It will do the semantic analysis work, which has been published.    So really, coming back from here, you have to start from the basic and it is important for the local community in the country because you got to start. That's why I have the work which changed my direction some ways. We might speak about different approaches to aphasia in developing countries, when you go to the small countries, this is totally different. At the same time, because people have been starting my position in other countries, I have been invited to help them out in a different perspective. I have been working with Slovenia, for example, helping them to develop the test, and they are doing education about aphasia. Now I have contact with people from Middle East and they want the similar. Through my work with the International Association of Language and Communication Sciences and Disorders, IALP, as part of the Education Committee, we have a mentorship program for clinicians working with aphasia, something which perhaps you don't know. IALP and Tavistock trust, have put together a program and aphasia committee and we are mentors of clinicians in the developing countries. Right now, the IALP program has about twenty clinicians being mentored around the world. I have someone in Vietnam, which is very interesting. And the same time, from my role as the Education Committee, I have been involved in many of these places, which they asked you know, how to develop materials, how to do all this work to change the life of communication disorders. I think aphasia is part of that, because I have all that experience. I think you have to start off at that point with the research, you know, develop the tests, the materials to assess, and then go to the different aspects which we need of recovery. Taking in the national perspective, regarding tests, I will say, you do not have to translate the test, you don't translate the test, you adopt the test. And sometimes it's not possible to do that. Even some of the notes of the quality of life which you have, or the social approach, which you have in the case of the life participation approach with what we have talked before, might not be appropriate in a different country. But you have to think the principles behind that.   Janet: You talk about awareness, and it makes me think that it really is foundational to so much of what we think about with LPAA. You're talking about awareness of aphasia in government areas, in policy areas, in writing documents, in how families engage with people with aphasia, how the shopkeepers around the area engage with people with aphasia. Awareness is important and those of us who are enmeshed in aphasia, we just may take it for granted that everybody knows what aphasia is, or everybody knows how to talk with the person with aphasia, and that's just not so. You're telling me, and I believe you're right, that building awareness is so important to the foundation of building a successful aphasia culture, whether it's the rehabilitation culture, or the family culture, or the government culture,   Ilias: I want to say aphasia-friendly society, instead of culture.   Janet: That's a great way to think about it – aphasia-friendly society, larger than just the speech language-pathology community.   Ilias: Larger than that. With the Bruce Willis and all the issues these days about aphasia, it's a great opportunity to go out and speak what is aphasia. People now might know the word aphasia, but what actually is the effect on life and how we'll live with that. I don't think that people are aware of that, unless it is something they have experienced from their own household. I think we have to get involved, taking the opportunities not only to go to the TV channels or going to the media and speaking about it, using this opportunity to get involved to the changes in the society. I think that is what will be the opportunity. The media help up to one level, but speaking to the media, they will know what is aphasia but that will not change that of the society 100%. People have to be in phase with a person with aphasia, and they have to say, to interact, with a person with aphasia to understand what it is. In the smaller communities, that might be easier, because each knows each other, and that will be much easier. That is why Greece, who is a smaller community, this small village, in a small town is more acceptable, comparing where the neighborhood network and the neighborhood community is still very close, comparing with big cities, which we don't know who lives next to you. That helps people understand what's going on and helping the person with aphasia. We have to start from the local people instead of going to the media. They're here, and you go out and take the people with aphasia to breakfast. I say, going to the coffee shop, that will be another 15 people there, these people will know what happend and speak with them. These 15 people will go to a different level. This is how you spread the word of aphasia. It is not always that the media will do the best thing. That's what I think.   Janet: I think you're right; it takes many perspectives. And people working from many points of view to really build this foundation and the media, especially with the attention it's given in the last couple of weeks about Bruce Willis. The media certainly plays a point, but you're right, not the most important point or not the only point. We are the advocates, and we are the ones who need to lay the foundation for awareness,   Ilias: I think we have to go a step further. Like, yes, the media brought this case up, go to the governor, go to the policies, insist that there is a need there. It is the media in different ways. Go and speak with the politicians, the lobby. I don't think this has happened.    Janet: It happens in some places, but we can certainly do more. Which leads me actually to my next question. So in addition to being a leader in aphasia, in your country of Greece, Ilias, you also have a large international presence in the aphasia community. You've alluded to that, and that presence in the discussion today. But I want to take you a little bit further into that by asking, how do you see the LPAA model influencing aphasia services throughout the international community? I know you've already talked about it with respect to your Greek community, but what are you thinking about, or what are you speculating about with the larger international community?   Ilias: I think that we will be involved in the very international community, but we have to take into account their special social network, which every community has got, which is totally different. Perhaps the life participation approach will be different from one community to another globally, from one country to another. Each community has got different norms, so it has to be adopted to the different norms of the community. How that will happen, I think, is local people will take the history of it and try to disseminate, and they will adopt it locally. It has to be adopted locally, and how it will be applied with different societal structures, that also will be very interesting to see. As I say, working with these developing countries, I will be very interested to see how that will evolve, and how they will respect. Some of the countries think that aphasia therapy is only linguistic because they have different norms, or I don't know if there are some countries which think about intelligence. There must be. So it's a lot of education which has to happen in all these countries to do all this information.    Janet: That's a good perspective and again, brings us back to the work we need to do in terms of aphasia awareness, talking with our colleagues internationally, and connecting with people with aphasia and their families.   Ilias: It's very important because I think the world that will change as well, because the world is getting smaller. I think communication between different countries at different perspectives, now, it's much easier. Look at the different ways which this podcast works. This can have access to different people around the world, they can speak, have communication, have Zoom meeting. It's much easier to communicate and have access to different information. I think that will help to change. But on the other hand, you don't know how ready a culture is to accept this approach, because some technology is going too fast for some countries and cannot be persuaded to go faster in some modalities. I think it's much easier than it used to be 20 years ago to have access to all this information directly. I think this is a positive sign for more countries to approach to life participation approach.   Janet: Certainly, we've had some podcasts on this topic, and people are thinking about how do you connect, to do a group therapy for people with aphasia, using technology or Zoom or some other platform? Certainly, that is exciting and if it helps persons with aphasia, that's a great thing.   Ilias: Can we have a podcast with people with aphasia speaking from different countries?   Janet: I think that would be a terrific idea. We've had one podcast with some people with aphasia speaking, but they have been in the same location. We have had not podcasts, but I've been part of activities where people in different parts of the United States have been talking together on Zoom. I think that's an excellent idea, people with aphasia from different parts of the world gathering together to talk about their aphasia, I'm going to propose that topic to our team,   Ilias: I'm happy to facilitate that.   Janet: Excellent, I'll sign you up Ilias. As we bring this interview to a close, Ilias, I wonder if you have some pearls of wisdom or lessons learned about LPAA and aphasia services in Greece and around the world that you will share with our listeners.   Ilias: I will say first of all, listen to the person. Just note what the person wants. That is the most important thing. A person with aphasia, as Audrey Holland said, is able to communicate even if he has got the linguistic impairment. So as clinicians, as family, try to find the strong points of this person, and make the most of it, to make him an active member of the society. According to what he wants, she wants, do not impose things on the person, give them the opportunity. I think that is applied everywhere. With the different societal rules, people need different things. Just listen to this person, what he wants, and just use the stroke skills which they have, and facilitate to be an active member of the society. Don't ignore the linguistic impairment, change the behavior allowed at all different levels that we have discussed so far. That's what I want to give out of this perspective.   Janet: I think those very important pearls of wisdom, especially the idea of listening to the patient. It's not huge, it doesn't take a lot of effort, but it's so very, very important because it can form the foundation of the relationship that we have and the success that the person with aphasia can feel. Thank you for those, I will take them to heart and take them into our minds as well. I do appreciate Ilias, your insights and your dedication to serving people with communication disorders. Thank you very much for talking to me today.    This is Janet Patterson, and I am speaking from the VA in Northern California. Along with Aphasia Access, I would like to thank my guest, Dr. Ilias Papathanasiou, for sharing his knowledge about aphasia and his experiences in the international aphasia community. I am grateful to you, Ilias, for reflecting on LPAA and international aphasia services, and sharing your thoughts with us today.   You can find references and links in the Show Notes from today's podcast interview with Ilias Papathanasiou at Aphasia Access under the Resource tab on the homepage. On behalf of Aphasia Access, we thank you for listening to this episode of the Aphasia Access Conversations Podcast. For more information on Aphasia Access, and to access our growing library of materials, please go to www.aphasiaaccess.org. If you have an idea for a future podcast topic, please email us at info@aphasiaaccess.org Thank you again for your ongoing support of Aphasia Access.                 References   Papathanasiou, I. (Ed.). (2000). Acquired Neurogenic Communication Disorders: A Clinical Perspective. London: Whurr Publishers.  Papathanasiou, I. & De Bleser, R. (Eds.).  2010 (2nd ed.). The Sciences of Aphasia: From Therapy to Theory. London: Emerald Group Publishing. Papathanasiou, I., Coppens, P. & Potagas, C. (Eds.).  2022 (3rd ed.). Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Communication Disorders, Burlington MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.   International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders.  https://ialpasoc.info  Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. https://aphasiatavistocktrust.org/  Ilias Papathaniou@facebook.com

A Pagan's Pilgrimage by Llewelyn Powys, chapter 4

Elias Patras is an Intuitive Motivator, Author and Psychic Medium. He takes his years of experience in Intuitive Work, Life Coaching, and Teaching to support others on their journey of self-development so they can connect, educate, and grow to their limitless possibilities. He has facilitated retreat weekends since 2005. He was the 2019 Celebrate Your Life Speaker Program Winner and shared the stage in Sedona with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Neale Donald Walsch, Anita Moorjani and Dr. Bruce Lipton, Denise Linn, Lisa Williams, and Sunny Dawn Johnston. Elias has been studying energy work for over twenty years, including completing an apprenticeship in Peruvian Shamanic Studies and co-facilitating an Earth Honoring Altar apprenticeship program. His commitment and passion in teaching content that promotes growth and exploration of self is unequaled. This work has a clear focus on how we co-create our life with the Divine and deserve everything that we want for our highest good. He is also the creator of a very specialized line of Energy Balancing Sprays and Bath Salts to enhance areas of the mind, body and spirit in being balanced and aligned. Elias believes the key to learning and personal growth is how to listen and to connect to the signs and signals that we receive. His mission is to help others understand and tap into their own intuition and inner voice. He is currently writing his second book Changing the F-You into Thank You, How to Flip the Script and See the Gift.  Find Elias:  www.EliasPatras.com  www.linktr.ee/EliasPatras  FB - Elias Patras-Intuitive Motivator IG - EliasPatras.IntuitiveMotivator YouTube - www.YouTube.com/c/EliasPatras  TikTok - Elias Patras) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Elias Patras is an Intuitive Motivator, Author and Psychic Medium. He takes his years of experience in Intuitive Work, Life Coaching, and Teaching to support others on their journey of self-development so they can connect, educate, and grow to their limitless possibilities. He has facilitated retreat weekends since 2005. He was the 2019 Celebrate Your Life Speaker Program Winner and shared the stage in Sedona with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Neale Donald Walsch, Anita Moorjani and Dr. Bruce Lipton, Denise Linn, Lisa Williams, and Sunny Dawn Johnston. Elias has been studying energy work for over twenty years, including completing an apprenticeship in Peruvian Shamanic Studies and co-facilitating an Earth Honoring Altar apprenticeship program. His commitment and passion in teaching content that promotes growth and exploration of self is unequaled. This work has a clear focus on how we co-create our life with the Divine and deserve everything that we want for our highest good. He is also the creator of a very specialized line of Energy Balancing Sprays and Bath Salts to enhance areas of the mind, body and spirit in being balanced and aligned. Elias believes the key to learning and personal growth is how to listen and to connect to the signs and signals that we receive. His mission is to help others understand and tap into their own intuition and inner voice. He is currently writing his second book Changing the F-You into Thank You, How to Flip the Script and See the Gift.  Find Elias:  www.EliasPatras.com  www.linktr.ee/EliasPatras  FB - Elias Patras-Intuitive Motivator IG - EliasPatras.IntuitiveMotivator YouTube - www.YouTube.com/c/EliasPatras  TikTok - Elias Patras) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both were disciples of the Apostle Paul, who mentions them in his Epistle to the Romans: "Jason and Sosipater my kinsmen greet you" (16:21). Jason was born in Tarsus of Cilicia (as was the Apostle Paul), and became bishop of that town. Sosipater was from Patras of Achaia (now Greece), and became bishop of Iconium. After serving their flocks for many years, these two travelled together to Corfu, where they were the first to preach the Gospel. They were furiously opposed by the ruler of that island, but when he died, the new king came to faith in Christ and was baptised with the name Sebastian. Jason and Sosipater remained on Corfu, freely preaching the Gospel and building up the Church until they reposed in great old age. An ancient church in the city of Corfu, dating from the first centuries, bears inscriptions that mention the Saints by name.   They are commemorated April 28 on the Slavic calendar.

Both were disciples of the Apostle Paul, who mentions them in his Epistle to the Romans: "Jason and Sosipater my kinsmen greet you" (16:21). Jason was born in Tarsus of Cilicia (as was the Apostle Paul), and became bishop of that town. Sosipater was from Patras of Achaia (now Greece), and became bishop of Iconium. After serving their flocks for many years, these two travelled together to Corfu, where they were the first to preach the Gospel. They were furiously opposed by the ruler of that island, but when he died, the new king came to faith in Christ and was baptised with the name Sebastian. Jason and Sosipater remained on Corfu, freely preaching the Gospel and building up the Church until they reposed in great old age. An ancient church in the city of Corfu, dating from the first centuries, bears inscriptions that mention the Saints by name.   They are commemorated April 28 on the Slavic calendar.

David Lorimer's Guest today is Dr Athena D. Potari,  Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (2022/23). She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, specializing in Political Philosophy, and holds an MA in Political Theory summa cum laude from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2020, she was the youngest female scholar to receive the prestigious Academy of Athens Award of Philosophy. She has previously taught at the Universities of Oxford, University of Patras and University of Toulouse 1-Capitol (Athens branch). In 2019 she founded Atheonoa - a school of philosophy based in Greece devoted to the study of Ancient Hellenic Philosophy as an experiential path to the lived realization of non-dual awareness (gnosis) and eudaimonia, combining rigorous textual study with meditation and other embodied practices inspired by the ancient scriptures. She is a Member of the Galileo Commission Steering Group and the author of “A Call for a Renaissance of the Spirit in the Humanities” published by the Galileo Commission.Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.scientificandmedical.net galileocommission.orgbeyondthebrain.org Works and links mentioned:Papers by Athena Potari https://harvard.academia.edu/DespoinaAthenaPotarihttps://uk.bookshop.org/books/1605839924_shining-light-on-transcendence-the-unconventional-journey-of-a-neuroscientist/9781786771070Plato: The Republic https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-republic-9780008480080/9780008480080Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-prophet/9781513263229Yogananda Paramahansa: Autobiography of a Yogi https://uk.bookshop.org/books/autobiography-of-a-yogi-9788189535513/9788189535513 Production: Martin RedfernArtwork: Amber HaasMusic: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone

The developments in the case of the death of the three children in Patras are staggering. Yesterday afternoon, local time, an arrest warrant was issued against the mother for the death of 9-year-old Georgina, with the alleged child murderer to be brought before the prosecutor this morning. - Καταιγιστικές είναι οι εξελίξεις στην υπόθεση του θανάτου των τριών παιδιών στην Πάτρα.  Χθες το απόγευμα, τοπική ώρα, εκδόθηκε ένταλμα σύλληψης σε βάρος της μητέρας για τον θάνατο της 9χρονης Τζωρτζίνας, με την φερόμενη παιδοκτόνο να οδηγείται στον εισαγγελέα σήμερα το πρωί.

A matter of days or even hours is to make arrests, as reported by Greek media, in the case of the death of three sisters in Patras. - Θέμα ημερών ή και ωρών είναι να γίνουν συλλήψεις, όπως αναφέρουν ελλαδικά Μέσα Ενημέρωσης, στην υπόθεση του θανάτου τριών ανήλικων αδελφών στην Πάτρα.

The single most common, preventable cause of in-hospital death is a hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism; making this an important target for prevention when people are admitted to hospital. An updated Cochrane Review from January 2022 looks at the evidence for one of the possible interventions, which combines anti-coagulant drugs with intermittent pneumatic leg compression to prevent these blood clots. Stavros Kakkos from the University of Patras in Greece tells us more.

Vivi Galani has over 15 years of experience at American Express. She is currently the Vice President and General Manager, Network Partnerships Business Development at American Express EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, and Africa). In 2021, she was given the ‘Advocate for Women EMEA Award' by Women in Payments for her role in promoting female leadership and supporting the career development of all women in the workplace. Ms. Galani holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Patras, a Masters in Information Systems from The London School of Economics and Political Science, an MBA from Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, and an MSc in Finance from the London Business School.

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

He was the brother of the Apostle Peter, from Bethsaida on the shore of Lake Gennesaret. Andrew left his fisherman's trade to become a disciple of St John the Baptist. Soon after the Forerunner had baptized Jesus, he said to Andrew and his other disciple John the Theologian, "Behold the Lamb of God!" At this, both disciples followed after Jesus. After conversing with Christ, Andrew hurried home and told his brother Simon Peter, "We have found the Messiah." For being the first to recognize Jesus as the Christ, St Andrew is called the First-Called.   After Pentecost, Andrew was appointed to preach the Gospel around the Black Sea and in Thrace and Macedonia, traveling as far as Lazica in the Caucasus. According to Slavic tradition his travels took him even further, into the land that was later to be called Russia.   In later travels the Apostle preached throughout Asia Minor with St John the Theologian, then traveled to Mesopotamia, then back to Sinope on the Black Sea, and finally to Patras in the Peloponnese, where he soon established a large community of Christians. One of his converts was Maximilla, the wife of Aegeates, the Proconsul of that region. Aegeates was so angered by his wife's conversion that he had the Apostle arrested and crucified head downwards on a cross in the shape of an "X." The holy Apostle rejoiced to be allowed to suffer the same death as his Master.   The holy relics of St Andrew, after various travels, were returned to Patras in 1964, where they are now venerated.   In the West, St Andrew is venerated as the patron of Scotland: in the Middle Ages, more than eight hundred churches in Scotland were dedicated to him.

He was a physician from Antioch, a disciple and traveling-companion of the Apostle Paul, who refers to him as the 'beloved physician.' He wrote not only his Gospel but the Acts of the Apostles, dedicating both to Theophilus, who according to one tradition was the Governor of Achaia, a convert. Much of the Acts of the Apostles is written in the first person, describing his own travels with the St Paul. He lived to an old age and died in Achaia, possibly in Patras. Most ancient authors say that he died as a Martyr. Church traditions about St Luke are somewhat contradictory. According to many, he was one of the Seventy and thus an eye-witness to Christ's ministry on earth. (He is usually considered to be the companion of St Cleopas on the Road to Emmaus). According to others, he never met Christ himself but was converted by the preaching of the Apostle Paul. Church tradition holds that St Luke was the first iconographer, and painted an image of the Most Holy Theotokos from life. He is considered the patron of iconographers. Several icons attributed to St Luke himself are still in existence.

Both were disciples of the Apostle Paul, who mentions them in his Epistle to the Romans: "Jason and Sosipater my kinsmen greet you" (16:21). Jason was born in Tarsus of Cilicia (as was the Apostle Paul), and became bishop of that town. Sosipater was from Patras of Achaia (now Greece), and became bishop of Iconium. After serving their flocks for many years, these two travelled together to Corfu, where they were the first to preach the Gospel. They were furiously opposed by the ruler of that island, but when he died, the new king came to faith in Christ and was baptised with the name Sebastian. Jason and Sosipater remained on Corfu, freely preaching the Gospel and building up the Church until they reposed in great old age. An ancient church in the city of Corfu, dating from the first centuries, bears inscriptions that mention the Saints by name.   They are commemorated April 28 on the Slavic calendar