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January 4 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
January 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 5 All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For January 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 22. Feasts * Forefeast of the Theophany.January 4/January 17 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Saints * of the .[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorotheus Of Tyre
Saint Dorotheus bishop of Tyre (Lebanon), Tyre (present-day Lebanon; c. 255 – 362) is traditionally credited with an ''Acts'' of the Seventy Apostles (which may be the same work as the lost ''Gospel of the Seventy''), who were sent out according to the ''Gospel of Luke'' 10:1. Dorotheus was a learned priest of Antioch (Eusebius, VII.32) and a eunuch. Dorotheus is said to have been driven into exile during the persecution of Diocletian, but later returned. He attended the First Council of Nicaea, Council of Nicaea in 325, but was exiled to Odyssopolis (Varna, Bulgaria, Varna) on the Black Sea in Thrace by Julian the Apostate. There the 107-year-old priest was martyred for his faith. His feast day is observed June 5 according to the Gregorian calendar which coincides with June 18 on the Julian calendar. See also * Pseudo-Dorotheus, works pseudepigraphically attributed to Dorotheus of Tyre * 4th century in Lebanon References External linksHenry Wace, ''Dictionary of Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 15 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
January 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), January 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), January 16 All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 28 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Julian Calendar, Old Calendar. For January 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), January 2. Saints * Monk-martyr Pansophius of Alexandria (c. 250)January 15/January 28 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Martyrs Elpidios, Danax, and Helen. ''(see also: January 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), January 16)'' * Virgin-Martyr Charitina of Amisus (c. 304) ''(see also: September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), September 4, October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), October 5)'' * ''Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteen Assyrian Fathers
The Thirteen Assyrian Fathers ( ka, ათცამმეტი ასურელი მამანი, tr) were, according to Georgian church tradition, a group of monastic missionaries who arrived from Mesopotamia to Georgia to strengthen Christianity in the country in the 6th century. They are credited by the Georgian church historians with the foundation of several monasteries and hermitages and initiation of the ascetic movement in Georgia.Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', p. 321. Peeters Publishers, Lang, David Marshall (1956), ''Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints'', pp. 81-83. London: Allen & Unwin The lives of the Assyrian Fathers are related in a cycle of medieval Georgian hagiographic texts and are unattested beyond these sources. Some of these vitae are formalities composed for an 18th-century synaxary, but four of them exist in original form, as well a metaphrastic version. The datin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karpasia (town)
Karpasia ( grc, Καρπάσεια and Καρπασία), Latinized as Carpasia, and also known as Karpasion (sometimes mistaken for Karpathos), was an ancient town in Cyprus, situated in the northern shore of the Karpas Peninsula, at a distance of 3 km from the modern town of Rizokarpaso. According to tradition, it was founded by the Phoenician king Pygmalion of Tyre. It had a harbour, whose moles remain visible to this day. According to archaeological evidence, the earliest possible date for the foundation of the town is the 7th century BC. It was first mentioned in literature in 399 BC. The town was mentioned by the writers of antiquity, including Strabo. The city is also mentioned in the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, which is papyrus fragments in Greek with the history of ancient Greece. In 306 BC, the town was the site of landing for Demetrius I of Macedon, whose forces stormed Carpasia and the neighbouring town of Urania, before proceeding to Salamis. The architectural style as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cilicia
Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilicia plain. The region includes the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye, along with parts of Hatay and Antalya. Geography Cilicia is extended along the Mediterranean coast east from Pamphylia to the Nur Mountains, which separates it from Syria. North and east of Cilicia lie the rugged Taurus Mountains that separate it from the high central plateau of Anatolia, which are pierced by a narrow gorge called in antiquity the Cilician Gates. Ancient Cilicia was naturally divided into Cilicia Trachea and Cilicia Pedias by the Limonlu River. Salamis, the city on the east coast of Cyprus, was included in its administrative jurisdiction. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchorite
In Christianity, an anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress) is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, or Eucharist-focused life. While anchorites are frequently considered to be a type of hermit, unlike hermits they were required to take a vow of stability of place, opting for permanent enclosure in cells often attached to churches. Also unlike hermits, anchorites were subject to a religious rite of consecration that closely resembled the funeral rite, following which they would be considered dead to the world, a type of living saint. Anchorites had a certain autonomy, as they did not answer to any ecclesiastical authority other than the bishop. The anchoritic life is one of the earliest forms of Christian monasticism. In the Catholic Church, eremitic life is one of the forms of the Consecrated life. In medieval England, the earliest recorded anchorites existed in the 11th century. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zosimus The Hermit
Zosimus the Hermit was an ascetic who resided in the wilds of Cilicia and Palestine in the 3rd century AD. Zosimus was tortured during the persecution of the Church under Roman Emperor Diocletian but persevered in his Christian faith. After being tortured he was left miraculously unharmed which led to the conversion of Zosimus' guard Athanasius who accepted the Christian faith and baptism. Eventually both Zosimus and Athanasius were released. Zozimus traveled by camel, and later by wind to a place called the "Abode of the Blessed." The Abode was a mountain hermitage far from human society in Palestine. When he arrived, he saw a wall of clouds which he was lifted across by two trees. At the abode he found a group of Rechabites. Zosimus lived there for 40 years. While there he abstained from wine, bread, and social interactions. Afterwards, he left to spread the Rechabite teachings. In order to stop him, the Devil and several demons tortured him for 40 days. However, Zosimus bani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 27 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
August 26 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 28 All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''September 9'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 27, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on '' August 14''. Saints * ''Saint Hosius the Confessor (''Osius or Ossius''), Bishop of Cordova'' (359)August 27 / September 9 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Saint Liberius the Confessor, Pope of Rome (366) Συναξαριστής. 27 Αυγούστου '' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 17 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
June 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), June 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), June 18 All fixed Synaxarium, commemorations below celebrated on June 30 by Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Churches on the Julian Calendar, Old Calendar. For June 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), June 4. Saints * Martyr Djan Darada (''Aetius the Eunuch''), the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Kandake, Candace, baptized by the Apostle Philip the Evangelist, Philip (1st century)June 17/30 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). (''see also: January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), January 4, August 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), August 27'') * Hieromartyr Isaurus, deacon, and with him Martyrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandake
Kandake, kadake or kentake ( Meroitic: 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 ''kdke''),Kirsty Rowan"Revising the Sound Value of Meroitic D: A Phonological Approach,"''Beitrage zur Sudanforschung'' 10 (2009). often Latinised as Candace ( grc, Κανδάκη, ''Kandakē''), was the Meroitic term for the sister of the king of Kush who, due to the matrilineal succession, would bear the next heir, making her a queen mother. She had her own court, probably acted as a landholder and held a prominent secular role as regent. Contemporary Greek and Roman sources treated it, incorrectly, as a name. The name Candace is derived from the way the word is used in the New Testament (). Archaeological sources The Kandakes of Meroe were first described through the Greek geographer's Strabo account of the "one-eyed Candace" in 23 BCE in his encyclopedia Geographica. '' ''There are at least ten regnant Meroitic queens during the 500 years between 260 BCE and 320 CE, and at least six during the 140 periods between 60 BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopian Eunuch
The Ethiopian eunuch ( gez, ኢትዮጵያዊው ጃንደረባ) is a figure in the New Testament of the Bible; the story of his conversion to Christianity is recounted in Acts 8. Biblical narrative Philip the Evangelist was told by an angel to go to the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, and there he encountered the Ethiopian eunuch, the treasurer of the Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians (Ancient Greek: Κανδάκη, the "Candace" was the Meroitic language term for "queen" or possibly "royal woman"). The eunuch had been to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home. Sitting in his chariot, he was reading the Book of Isaiah, specifically . Philip asked the Ethiopian, "Do you understand what you are reading?" He said he did not ("How can I understand unless I have a teacher to teach me?"), and asked Philip to explain the text to him. Philip told him the Gospel of Jesus, and the Ethiopian asked to be baptized. They went down into a water source, traditionally thought to be the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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