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April 12 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
April 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 13 All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''April 25'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For April 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''March 30''. Saints * Hieromartyr Artemon the Presbyter, of Laodicea (284-305) Συναξαριστής. 12 Απριλίου'' ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ Ελλαδοσ). ''(see also: March 24, April 13)'' * Martyrs Demas and Protion, and those with them, by beheading (285-305)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas. ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 28. * Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzău in Wallachia (372)April 12 / April 25 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 15 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
April 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 16 All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''April 28'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For April 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''April 2''. Saints * Apostles Aristarchus of Apamea, Pudens, and Trophimus of the Seventy Apostles (c. 67)April 15 / April 28 Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).April 28 / April 15 Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Hanlon (writer)
John Canon O'Hanlon MRIA (30 April 1821 – 15 May 1905) was an Irish Catholic priest, scholar and writer who also published poetry and illustrations, and involved himself in Irish politics. He is best known as a folklorist and a hagiographer, and in particular for his comprehensive ''Lives of the Irish Saints''. Life O'Hanlon was born in Stradbally, Laois. His parents were Edward and Honor Hanlon. He attended the Preston School in Ballyroan and then entered Carlow College to study for the priesthood. Before he completed his studies, however, he emigrated in 1842 with members of his family, initially to Quebec, but ultimately to Missouri in the United States of America (a migration perhaps occasioned by the death of his father). The family settled in Millwood in northeast Missouri. O'Hanlon was admitted to the diocesan college in St. Louis, completed his studies, and was ordained in 1847. He was then assigned a mission in the diocese of St. Louis, where he ministered until 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fermo
Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest human remains from the area are funerary remains from the 9th–8th centuries BC, belonging to the Villanovan culture or the proto-Etruscan civilization. The ancient Firmum Picenum was founded as a Latin colony, consisting of 6000 men, in 264 BC, after the conquest of the Picentes, as the local headquarters of the Roman power, to which it remained faithful. It was originally governed by five quaestors. It was made a colony with full rights after the battle of Philippi, the 4th Legion being settled there. It lay at the junction of roads to Pausulae, Urbs Salvia, and Asculum, connected to the coast road by a short branch road from Castellum Firmanum (Porto S. Giorgio). According to Plutarch's ''Parallel Lives'', Cato the Elder thought highly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecumenical Patriarch Of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches which compose the Eastern Orthodox Church. The ecumenical patriarch is regarded as the representative and spiritual leader of many Orthodox Christians worldwide. The term ''ecumenical'' in the title is a historical reference to the Ecumene, a Greek designation for the civilised world, i.e. the Roman Empire, and it stems from Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon. The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the most enduring institutions in the world and has had a prominent part in world history. The ecumenical patriarchs in ancient times helped in the spread of Christianity and the resolution of various doctrinal disputes. In the Middle Ages they played a major role in the affairs of the Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriarch Sergius II Of Constantinople
Sergius II ( el, Σέργιος Β′; ? – July 1019) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from July 1001 to 1019. According to the history of John Skylitzes, he was a relative of the celebrated 9th-century patriarch Photius. In 1001, he was abbot of the Monastery of Manuel, which had been re-founded by Photius, when he was elected to fill the patriarchal see (June/July). According to the later legend, Sergius II was in the conflict with the Pope Sergius IV Pope Sergius IV (died 12 May 1012) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from 31 July 1009 to his death. His temporal power was eclipsed by the patrician John Crescentius. Sergius IV may have called for the expulsion of M .... "''A story that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 18 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
April 17 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 19 All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''May 1'' by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For April 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on '' April 5''. Saints * Martyrs Victor, Zoticus, Zeno, Acindynus, and Severian, of Nicomedia (c. 303)April 18 / May 1 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).May 1 / April 18 HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). (''see also: |
Athanasia Of Aegina
Saint Athanasia of Aegina (c.790 in Aegina – 14 August 860 in Timia, Greece) was a saint who worked in the Byzantine Empire and was for a while adviser to the Empress Theodora II. She served as an abbess and was known for her miraculous healing of the sick and those seen as possessed. Life The life of St. Athanasia is contained only in a vitae which is found in the manuscript ''Vaticanus Graecus 1660'' of 916 CE. The author is unknown. However, scholars believe it was most likely a man, due to the masculine tenses found in the piece, and that it was written soon after St. Athanasia's death. St. Athanasia was the daughter of Christian nobles, Niketas and Irene, and experienced the mystical union of a star merging with her heart while weaving at the loom when she was a young girl. She wanted a spiritual life, but an imperial edict required all single women of marriageable age to marry soldiers. At 16 years old, at her parents urging, she complied and married a young officer. Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Name Days In Greece
This is a calendar of name days in Greece. Some of the names below are linked to the original saints or martyrs from which they originate. January # Basilius, Telemachus # Serafim, Sylvestros # Genovefa # Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles # Theoni # Theofanes, Iordanes, Photios, Fotios, Fotis, Fotini, Ourania, Rania, Peristera # Ioannis Prodromos, Yanna, Ioanna, Ioannos, Yannis # Domenicus, Parthenia # Martyr Polyeuctos # Gregory of Nyssa # Theodosios # Martyr Tatiana # Maximos the Righteous # # # # Antonios # Athanasios # Macarios # Ephthemius # Maximos, Neophytos # Anastacius, Temotheus # Dionisios # # Grigorios, Margareta # Xenophon, Xenia # # # # Three Holy Hierarchs # February # Tryfon # Hypapante # Stamatios Simeon # # # Photios # # Zaharias # Nikiforos # Charalampos # Charilaos # Theodora # Priscilla # Pavan # # # Theodoros # Efsevios, Leon # # # # # # # # Sebastianos # # March # Eudokia # Efthalia of Sicily # #Gerasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine V
Constantine V ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantīnos; la, Constantinus; July 718 – 14 September 775), was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier. With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the Bulgars in the Balkans. His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in Thrace, made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure. Religious strife and controversy was a prominent feature of his reign. His fervent support of Iconoclasm and opposition to monasticism led to his vilification by later Byzantine historians and writers, who denigrated him with the nicknames "the Dung-Named" ( grc-gre, Κοπρώνυμος, Koprónimos; la, Copronymus), because he allegedly defaecated dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eudokia, Wife Of Constantine V
Eudokia (Greek: Εὐδοκία) was the third Empress consort of Constantine V of the Byzantine Empire. According to the chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor, Eudokia was a sister-in-law of Michael Melissenos, ''strategos'' of the Anatolikon Theme. Her sister and brother-in-law were parents to Theodotus I of Constantinople. Empress Constantine V was Emperor since 741. His first wife Tzitzak gave birth to their only known son, Leo IV the Khazar, on 25 January 750. There is no further mention of her and by the following year, Constantine was already married to his second wife Maria. Lynda Garland has suggested Tzitzak died in childbirth. Maria died childless not long after her own marriage. Though the year of the marriage of Constantine and Eudokia is not known, it can be placed between late 751 and 769. According to Theophanes, on 1 April 769, Constantine named her an Augusta. The following day two of her sons were named Caesars and a third made ''nobilissimus'', which would p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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