As we sat on the porch munching on green mangoes we could hear a Greek language recording of Byzantine chant wafting through the already hot and heavy mid-morning air. Fr Alexios likes to listen to music while he paints the iconographic frescoes in the chapel. Fr. Alexios is a Guatemalan priest and gifted artist who was raised by Archimandrite Andres. He spent a year learning iconography in Greece, where he also became fluent in the Greek language.
Jose, our Colombian friend, has come to Guatemala to be taught icon painting by Fr. Alexios. Jose, in turn, is teaching one of the orphan boys.
Fr. Alexios also teaches agronomy at the vo-tech college which is run by Fr. Andres.Fr. Alexios showed us his latest icon and it was Matushka's name saint, Stylianos!
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