Crossword-Solution: PANAGIA 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Bishop was the chief celebrant; but not even the splendor of his canonicals--the cope with the little bells sewn down the sides and along the sleeves, the ompharium, the _panagia_, the cross, the crozier--were enough to draw my eyes from the dimpled pink face half-hidden in the pillow of down on which they held thee up before the font.

She reminded me of the Madonna on the Panagia in the transept of our church at Blacherne." CHAPTER VIII RACING WITH A STORM One who has seen the boats in which fishermen now work the eddies and still waters of the Bosphorus will not require a description of the vessel the Prince and Lael stepped into when they arrived at the Grand Gate of Blacherne.

With a presence of mind equal to the occasion, he brought the _Panagia_ forth, and supported by an army of clerics and monks, traversed the walls, waving the All Holy Banner.

Then there was an outburst of many voices: "The _Panagia!_ The _Panagia!_" The feeling this time was reactionary.

The movement of the candle and censer bearers outside the gate forced Sergius nearer it; so when the _Panagia_ was brought to a rest, he, being much taller than its guardians, became an object of general observation, and wishing to escape it if possible, he took off his high hat; whereupon his hair, parted in the middle, dropped down his neck and back fair and shining in the down-beating light.