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August 6 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
August 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 7 All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''August 19'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 6, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''July 24''. Feasts * ''The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ'' (''Second "Feast of the Savior" in August'')August 6 / August 19 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Pre-Schism Western saints * Saints , two brothers, aged respectively thirteen and nine, scourged and beheaded at Alcalá ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, Staffordshire to the west, and Derbyshire to the north-west. The border with most of Warwickshire is Watling Street, the modern A5 road (Great Britain), A5 road. Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester located at its centre and unitary authority, administered separately from the rest of the county. The ceremonial county – the non-metropolitan county plus the city of Leicester – has a total population of just over 1 million (2016 estimate), more than half of which lives in the Leicester Urban Area. History Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book in four wapentakes: Guthlaxton, Framland, Goscote, and Gartree (hundred), Gartree. These later became hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valaam Monastery
The Valaam Monastery (russian: Валаамский монастырь; Finnish version: ''Valamo Monastery'') is a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Russian Karelia, located on Valaam, the largest island in Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe. History It is not clear when the monastery was founded, as the cloister is not mentioned in documents before the 16th century. Dates from the 10th to the 15th centuries having been suggested. According to one tradition, the monastery was founded by a 10th-century Greek monk, Sergius of Valaam, and his Karelian companion, Herman of Valaam. Heikki Kirkinen inclines to date the foundation of the monastery to the 12th century. Contemporary historians consider even this date too early. According to the scholarly consensus, the monastery was founded at some point towards the end of the 14th century. John H. Lind and Michael C. Paul date the founding to between 1389 and 1393 based on various sources, including the "Tale of the Valaamo Monas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdov
Gdov (russian: Гдов) is a town and the administrative center of Gdovsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the river Gdovka, just from its outflow into Lake Peipus. Population: History It was first mentioned in the beginning of the 14th century, as an outpost guarding the city of Pskov. Between 1431 and 1434, Pskovians built a fortress there, the remains of which can still be seen. It was attacked on numerous occasions by the Swedes and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g., during the Russo–Swedish War (1590–1595) and the Ingrian War), and captured by the Swedes in 1614, but was finally returned to Russia in 1617 according to the Treaty of Stolbovo. In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, Gdov was made a part of Ingermanland Governorate (known since 1710 as Saint Petersburg Governorate). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 6 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
September 5 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – September 7 All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on ''September 19'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For September 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''August 24''. Saints * Martyrs Romulus and 11,000 others, in Armenia (c. 107-115)September 6/September 19 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐδόξιος, Ρωμύλος, Ζήνων, Μακάριος, 11.000 Μάρτυ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemko
Lemkos ( rue, Лeмкы, translit= Lemkŷ; pl, Łemkowie; uk, Лемки, translit=Lemky) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Lemko Region ( rue, Лемковина, translit=Lemkovyna; uk, Лемківщина, translit=Lemkivshchyna) of Carpathian Rus', an ethnographic region in the Carpathian Mountains and foothills spanning Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland. Their affiliation with other ethnicities is controversial. Some Lemkos consider their ethnos to be a sub-group of Rusyns (also called Carpatho-Rusyns or Carpatho-Ruthenians). Other Carpathian ethnic groups identifying as Rusyns include the Boykos and Hutsuls. Members of these groups have historically also been given other designations such as ''Verkhovyntsi'' (Highlanders). Among people of the Carpathian highlands, communities speaking the same dialect will identify with a different ethnic label when crossing borders due to the influence of state-sponsored education and media. As well the same community may switch its prefe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protomartyr
A protomartyr (Koine Greek, ''πρότος'' ''prótos'' "first" + ''μάρτυρας'' ''mártyras'' "martyr") is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protomartyr (with no other qualification of country or region) can mean Saint Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ..., the first martyr of the Christian church. Saint Thecla the Protomartyr, the first female martyr of the Christian church, is known as "apostle and protomartyr among women".Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower, ''The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers'', Cambridge University Press (2021), p. 183; see alsSt. Thekla, Protomartyr and Equal to the Apostles (antiochian.org) References {{Expand list, date=Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemkovyna
The Lemko Region (; pl, Łemkowszczyzna; uk, Лемківщина, translit=Lemkivshchyna) is an ethnographic area in southern Poland that has traditionally been inhabited by the Lemko people. The land stretches approximately long and wide along the north side of the Carpathian Mountains, following the Polish- Slovak border from the Poprad River. In the East, the region is described as either terminating linguistically between the Wisłok River Wisłok and Osława Rivers, or ethnographically at the Sanok River (depending on the author), where it meets the Boyko region. Some even go so far as to consider it to extend south into the Prešov Region, Slovakia. Previously a frontier area under the nominal control of Great Moravia, the Lemko Region became part of Poland in medieval Piast times. It was made part of the Austrian province of Galicia due to the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Parts were briefly independent under the Lemko-Rusyn Republic and Komancza Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Sandovich
Maxim Timofeyevich Sandovich (russian: Максим Тимофеевич Сандович, pl, Maksym Sandowicz; 1 February 1888 - 6 August 1914) is a New Martyr and Orthodox saint. known as saint hieromartyr Maxim of Gorlice ( pl, Maksym Gorlicki, russian: Максим Горлицкий). He is the protomartyr of the Lemko people. He was trained as an Orthodox priest, and was executed by the officially Catholic state of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a Russophile after his conversion to the Orthodox Church. After his execution, his wife was imprisoned in Talerhof, where his son, also named Maxim Sandovich, was born. Life Early life Maxim Sandovich was born in Zdynia, Galicia, in family of Tymoteusz (or Timofej) and Krystyna Sandowicz. His father owned a farm house and was a chanter in the local Greek-Catholic church of the Protection of the Mother of God ( pl). His mother was a housewife. He graduated from a four-class school in Gorlice and started his studies at a Gymna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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