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During the reign of this emperor, a great pestilence afflicted the people in Constantinople and vicinity so that about five-thousand or more people died daily. At the same time a terrible earthquake occurred in Antioch. Seeing the weakness of man&#8217;s ability to prevent these misfortunes the emperor, in consultation with the patriarch, ordered a period of fast and prayer throughout the entire empire. And, on the day of the Meeting [The Presentation] itself, arranged great processions throughout the towns and villages that the Lord might show compassion on His people. And truly, the Lord did show compassion; for the epidemic and earthquake ceased at once. This occurred in the year 544 A.D. Following this and from that time one, the Feast of the Presentation [Meeting] began to be celebrated as a major feast of the Lord. The tree, in time, grew and began to bring forth-abundant fruit.<\/p>\n<p><em>St. Nikolai Velimirovic, Prologue from Ochrid &#8211; Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking about the spread and celebration of Christmas, St. John Chrysostom says: &#8221; Magnificent and noble trees when planted in the ground shortly attain great heights and become heavily laden with fruit; so it is with this day.&#8221; So it is with the day of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-holiday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Speaking about the spread and celebration of Christmas, St. John Chrysostom says: &quot; Magnificent and noble trees when planted in the ground shortly attain great heights and become heavily laden with fruit; so it is with this day.&quot; So it is with the day of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple. 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