Maria N. Kalampoka, Dec. 6, 1994

Thebes, Boeotias The foundation of the Convent of the Elevation of the Holy Cross was laid by the burial there of the Elder's sister according to the flesh and according to the spirit, Maria, who fell asleep on 6 Dec. 1994. She was in essence the first spiritual Mother of a Monastic Sisterhood initially comprised of approximately forty Nuns and Novices, from Greece, certainly, and from America, Armenia, Byelorussia, England, Jamaica, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Norway, Palestine, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

From the tonsure to the Great Scheme of Nun Stavriani, from South Africa, Convent of The Holy Cross, Thebes, Boeotias, 21 November 1996.

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