Greek Orthodox Church Celebrates Easter by Reinstalling Iconic Religious Art

MICHIGAN LIVE
By Sue White

MICHIGAN---For 32 years, St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church has celebrated the traditions of the old world, worshiping at an east-facing altar in a church of domes and arches and sharing its food and culture at its annual Greek Festival every June. But in its 75th anniversary year, the congregation serving many across the state reached into its roots in Saginaw. The iconography, or religious art, that once screened the altar in the renovated St. Paul Lutheran Church at Fifth and Lapeer on Saginaw’s East Side and survived a fire there in 1950 hangs again in the church at Mackinaw and McCarty. “While the western churches reflect on Christ’s sufferings, everything in the Greek Orthodox church is flavored with the resurrection,” [Fr. Cox] said, adding that they will celebrate Easter on May 5 this year, aligned with the traditional Passover. [link]