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Josaphat
Josaphat can refer to: People * Jehoshaphat, in the Bible, fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah * Josaphat, a Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat * Giosafat Barbaro (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diplomat * Josephat T. Benoit (1900–76), mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire * Josaphat Celestin, Haitian-American politician, North Miami's first black mayor * Josaphat Chichkov, Bulgarian priest, rector and teacher * J.-J. Gagnier (Jean-Josaphat Gagnier), Canadian conductor, composer, and musician * Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun * Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky ( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський), Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr * Josaphat Kuntsevych (c.1580 – 1623), Belarusian martyr and saint of the Ruthenian Catholic Church * Josaphat-Robert Large, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic * Yuz Asaf, a sage buried at Srinagar, Kashmir, whose name is interpreted as "Josaphat" by Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barlaam And Josaphat
Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are legendary Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, and tells of the conversion of Josaphat to Christianity. According to the legend, an Indian king persecuted the Christian Church in his realm. After astrologers predicted that his own son would some day become a Christian, the king imprisoned the young prince Josaphat, who nevertheless met the hermit Saint Barlaam and converted to Christianity. After much tribulation the young prince's father accepted the Christian faith, turned over his throne to Josaphat, and retired to the desert to become a hermit. Josaphat himself later abdicated and went into seclusion with his old teacher Barlaam.The Golden Legend: The Story of Barlaam and Josaphat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barlaam And Josaphat (book)
Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are legendary Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, and tells of the conversion of Josaphat to Christianity. According to the legend, an Indian king persecuted the Christian Church in his realm. After astrologers predicted that his own son would some day become a Christian, the king imprisoned the young prince Josaphat, who nevertheless met the hermit Saint Barlaam and converted to Christianity. After much tribulation the young prince's father accepted the Christian faith, turned over his throne to Josaphat, and retired to the desert to become a hermit. Josaphat himself later abdicated and went into seclusion with his old teacher Barlaam.The Golden Legend: The Story of Barlaam and Josaphat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josaphat Kuntsevych
Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM ( – 12 November 1623) was a Basilian monk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Catholic Church who on 12 November 1623 was killed by an angry mob in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is said to be the best-known victim of anti-Catholic violence related to implementing the Union of Brest, and has been declared a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church. His death reflects the conflict among Orthodox and Catholic Christians that had intensified after the Ruthenian Orthodox Church (Kiev Metropolitanate) confirmed its communion with the Catholic Church through the 1596 Union of Brest. Biography Historical and religious background King Sigismund III Vasa's policy for the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was to reunite, "through missions to non-Catholics, both Protestant and Orthodox," all Christians into the Catholic Church. After preliminary negotiations with Sigismund III and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josaphat (Metropolis)
Josaphat can refer to: People * Jehoshaphat, in the Bible, fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah * Josaphat, a Christian saint of India, appearing in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat * Giosafat Barbaro (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diplomat * Josephat T. Benoit (1900–76), mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire * Josaphat Celestin, Haitian-American politician, North Miami's first black mayor * Josaphat Chichkov, Bulgarian priest, rector and teacher * J.-J. Gagnier (Jean-Josaphat Gagnier), Canadian conductor, composer, and musician * Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun * Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky ( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський, link=no), Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr * Josaphat Kuntsevych (c.1580 – 1623), Belarusian martyr and saint of the Ruthenian Catholic Church * Josaphat-Robert Large, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic * Yuz Asaf, a sage buried at Srinagar, Kashmir, whose name is interpreted as "Josap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josaphat-Robert Large
Josaphat-Robert Large (November 15, 1942 – October 28, 2017) was a Euro-Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic. His novel ''Les terres entourées de larmes'' hore surrounded with tearswon the prestigious Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (Caribbean literary Prize) in 2003. He was nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, together with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Gary Klang, Dany Laferrière and Leslie Manigat (ex- president of Haiti, the winner of the Prize). Large was also one of the finalists at the Ushant (Ouessant in French) Literary Contest in 2002. He wrote in both French and Haitian Creole. Josaphat-Robert Large was a member of " La Société des Gens de Lettres de France" (Society of French intellectuals), of the "Association des Écrivains de langue française" (Association of writers of French origin) and of the PEN Club America. The Society of French and francophone teachers of America has organized two colloquium on hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josaphat Park
Josaphat Park (french: Parc Josaphat, nl, Josaphatpark) is a public park of located in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium. The football stadium that was formerly used by the K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt lies on the north-western corner of the park. There is also an elementary school (Chazal school), a tennis club (R.T.C. Lambermont), the municipal greenhouses, animals (horses, donkeys, hen, ducks), two playgrounds, a minigolf course, an archery range, three cafés (La Laiterie, La Buvette Saint-Sebastiaan, and La Guinguette Populeir), a kiosk (Josaphine's), and some ponds. The park is a remainder of the old Linthout forest that began at the /. It was designed by Edmond Galoppin of Melsbroek and inaugurated by King Leopold II on 6 June 1904. Its name comes from the resemblance between the valley of the Roodebeek (a tributary of the Maalbeek) where the park is located and the Valley of Josaphat in the Holy Land, noted by a pilgrim back from Palestine in 1574. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josaphat Kotsylovsky
Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky ( uk, Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr. Kotsylovsky was born 3 March 1876 in the village of Pakoszowka (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland), of the Lemko Region,Biographies of twenty five Greek-Catholic Servants of God' at the website of the Vatican Sianok district, Kotsylovsky was of Lemko origin, and Ukrainian national orientation.Paul R. Magocsi, Ivan Ivanovich Pop. ''Encyclopedia of Rusyn history and culture''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. p 252 After graduating from the elementary folk school in Lesko he studied at the Sanok and Sambir gymnasia. From 1896 he studied at the law department of Lviv University. Soon he interrupted the studio and graduated from the school of artillery in Vienna, and of 1900 he was sent to serve in the Lviv garrison. After leaving the military service, and with the assistance of the Przemysl Bishop Kostyantyn Chekhovych, he began the philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Saint Basil The Great
The Order of Saint Basil the Great ( uk, Чин Святого Василія Великого, translit=Chyn Sviatoho Vasyliia Velykoho; la, Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni, abbreviated OSBM), also known as the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is a Greek Catholic monastic order of pontifical right that works actively among Ukrainian Catholics and other Greek-Catholic churches in central and eastern Europe. The order received approbation on 20 August 1631, and is based at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Vilnius. History Revival In the 16th century, with the efforts of Metropolitan of Kiev Josyf Veliamyn Rutsky and Archbishop of Polotsk Josaphat Kuntsevych, the monastic order was revived on territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Following World War II, the order was eliminated by the Russian Orthodox from its original territory and forced into exile. With the fall of the Soviet Union, it was reestablished again in modern Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian Greek Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josaphata Hordashevska
Josaphata Hordashevska, born Michaelina Hordashevska (20 November 1869 – 7 April 1919) an ethnic Ukrainian Greek-Catholic in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Religious Sister, was the first member and co-foundress of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate. Biography Michaelina Hordashevska was born 20 November 1869 in Lviv, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now Ukraine, into a family who were members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. At the age of 18, she considered consecrating her life to God in a contemplative monastery of the Basilian nuns, then the only Eastern-rite women's religious congregation. She attended a spiritual retreat which was preached by a Basilian monk, Father Jeremiah Lomnytskyj, whose spiritual guidance she sought. With his permission, Hordashevska took a private vow of chastity for one year. She was to renew this vow twice. At that time, Lomnytsky, seeing that there was a need of active Religious Sisters to meet the social needs of the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley Of Josaphat
The Valley of Josaphat (variants: Valley of Jehoshaphat and Valley of Yehoshephat) is a Biblical place mentioned by name in the Book of Joel ( and ): "I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: "Then I will enter into judgment with them there", on behalf of my people and for My inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and they have divided up My land."; "Let the nations be roused; Let the nations be aroused And come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side". This location is also referred to as the Valley of Decision. Identification In the Judaean Desert near Teqo'a By one interpretation, this describes the place where, in the presence of Jehoshaphat (Josaphat), King of Judah, Yahweh annihilated the Gentile coalition of Moab, Ammon and Edom. This may have indicated an actual valley euphemistically called by the Jews ''êmêq Berâkâh'' ("valley of blessing"), s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priestly Society Of Saint Josaphat
The Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych (SSJK) is a society of traditionalist priests and seminarians originating from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church which is led by the excommunicated priest Basil Kovpak. It is based in Riasne, Lviv, Western Ukraine. In Lviv, the society maintains a seminary, at which currently thirty students reside, and takes care of a small convent of Basilian sisters. The SSJK is affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X and Holy Orders are conferred by the latter society's bishops in the Roman Rite. The SSJK clergymen, however, exclusively follow a version of Slavonic Byzantine Rite in the Ruthenian recension. Seminary The seminary of the SSJK is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady and currently is attended by thirty seminarians. The seminary, the society says, is intended to be a modest support in the conversion to Catholicism not only of Ukraine, but of Russia as well. Devotion to Our Lady of Fatima and fidelity to traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy Of Saint Josaphat In Parma
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the United States. Its episcopal see is Parma, Ohio. It was established in 1983 by Pope John Paul II. The eparchy encompasses parishes in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma is a suffragan eparchy in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archeparchy of Philadelphia. The eparchy is named for St. Josaphat Kuntsevych, O.S.B.M., who was Eastern Catholic martyred in anti-Catholic violence by Eastern Orthodox following the Union of Brest. History Ohio became a major site of ethnic Ukrainian and Ruthenian immigration in the 1870s. By the 1880s, Cleveland and Tremont were sites of major Ukrainian communities. Parma and other Ohio towns were further populated by Ukrainian diaspora fleeing in the wake of the First World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
