Review

Holly Sacrament: the medicine of spiritual immortality or a vehicle for contamination?

Author

• • Dimitrios Anyfantakis Dimitrios Anyfantakis ORCID profile. (opens in new tab)

Abstract

The Holy Communion is the oldest Christian practice, through which a gathered group of people partake bread and wine with a shared spoon. The pandemic of COVID-19 produced unexpected social instability and chaos. In Greece, a recent bishop’s death from COVID-19 re-awaked the issue of infection transmission by using a common chalice and spoon. This review evaluates the available medical literature on this topic from the beginning of the pandemic until today.

Keywords: COVID-19, Eastern Orthodoxy, infections

How to Cite: Anyfantakis, D. (2021) “Holly Sacrament: the medicine of spiritual immortality or a vehicle for contamination?”, Medicinski glasnik. 18(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.17392/1334-21