The Moon

• As an allegory:
  • The Moon is often a symbol of changeable, mortal Man: And its cycles prefigure the general resurrection. [St. Theophilus of Antioch, Ad Autolyc. II, xiv]

• Its Creation: See Gen. 1 patristic commentary.

• Some Orthodox people for whom lunar craters have been named: St. Catherine; St. Cyril; St. Dionysius the Areopagite; St. Theophilus;