One of the beautiful churches we have here in Santa Barbara, California is St. Barbara's Greek Orthodox Church. The first time I visited this church was back in November, 1997 when St. Barbara's hosted an Environmental Symposium featuring the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. I was pretty impressed with it. I went on the invitation of Bill Cork (back when he was pastoral associate of our university's Newman Center, St. Mark's.) Bill, maybe we're somewhere in this picture, but I don't know!
A view of the Altar from the Soleas, decorated with Easter lilies.
They also have available for veneration a holy relic of St. Barbara given to them as a gift from Pope John Paul II back in 1987.
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