Bistriţa Monastery (Vâlcea County, Romania) maximum cards. Mihnea the Bad (Voivode) tore it down, and the 1838 earthquake (act of God, eh?) left it in ruins. But this house of God was rebuilt. Orthodoxism means "correctly believing"; then again, every religion and sect indulges in the belief that it is, itself, "the right way to believe"

http://www.romanian-monasteries.go.ro/valcea/bistritav.htm

"The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church ^{[note 1]} and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church,^[4] considers itself to be the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles almost 2,000 years ago. 

Orthodoxy is the second largest Christian communion in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents."

The Eastern rites want you to "make no mistake" by confusing the Orthodox Catholic Church with the Roman Catholic Church.

"The Orthodox Church considers itself to be both orthodox and catholic. In earlier and patristic usage, the Church usually referred to herself as the "Catholic Church"^[1][2] whose faith was the "Orthodox faith". 

Such usage is still reflected today in the Orthodox liturgy, e.g. "unite them to your Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church" (from the litany of the catechumens, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom). 

Current convention however, favors the name "Orthodox Church", perhaps partly to avoid confusion with the Roman Catholic Church, especially its Eastern rites. "

The interior of an Eastern Orthodox Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orthodox-Church-interior.jpg

Simonos Petras Monastery, Athos, Greece

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simonos_petras_1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodoxism

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