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Dear Friends,

       Welcome to the Saint Paraskevi Web site.  The members of the community of St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church in Greenlawn, New York feel a tremendous responsibility not only to spread the light of Christ to all who come our way, but also to share with everyone the miracles that take place in our holy shrine through the intercessions of St. Paraskevi.                 

         St. Paraskevi is the patron saint for health of the eyes, as well as the general health of all.  While the saint was being tortured in the later part of the second century, she healed the local ruler of his blindness, the same one who was ordering her to be tortured.  After the ruler received his eyesight, he stopped her torture and converted to Christianity.  Unfortunately, the next ruler had Paraskevi beheaded.  At the place of her martyrdom in Asia Minor, a small chapel was built in her honor, as was the custom at the time.  Miraculously, a natural spring started flowing from beneath the church and many who came to drink from this water were healed, especially those with eye problems.  Hence, St. Paraskevi came to be known as the patron saint for eyesight. 

           In the late sixties, a family from our church helped build a grotto-shrine in the saint’s honor and brought back holy water from the holy spring of the original St. Paraskevi Church.  The holy water was placed in a mixing tank and constantly runs through a spout in the wall of the shrine.  Since the late sixties, hundreds of people have reported to us that they have received miraculous cures as a result of drinking the holy water or sprinkling it in their eyes.  We receive requests from all over the world to ship the holy water, and people from as far a California go on pilgrimages to our shrine to receive the blessings, holy water and hope from this holy place.

            St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church is more that just a parish community, it is a holy site, and we feel blessed to be the caretakers of this holy place.Our ministries go beyond just our 600 member families, but to all people who suffer and need help of Christ’s healing through the intercessions of St. Paraskevi.If there is anything we can do for you, send you holy water from the shrine, or holy oil from the relics of St. Panteleimon which are housed in our Church, or to simply include you or your family or friends who are struggling with physical or spiritual ailments in our prayers service, please contact us.We are in your's and the Lord’s service,

Fr. Dimitrios Moraitis