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Sídlisko Ťahanovce
Sídlisko Ťahanovce ([pronunciation: 'seedlisko 'tyahano-utse], literally: "Ťahanovce Housing Estate", ) is a Boroughs and localities of Košice, borough (city ward) of Košice, Slovakia. Constructed in the late 1980s and consisting almost exclusively of Prefabricated building, prefabs, the estate offers little in terms of work opportunities or recreation, causing residents to spend most of their daytime elsewhere. The estate has long suffered from traffic jams and petty crime. The number of residents has slowly declined as more affluent inhabitants moved out but as of 2024 remains above 20,000, making the Ťahanovce Housing Estate one of most densely populated parts of Košice. History Construction of the housing estate started on 18 May 1984 nearby the village of Ťahanovce, which was an independent village until 1969 when it became incorporated in the city of Košice. Originally, the intention was to demolish the village and expand the housing estate over its location but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about , hosting a population exceeding 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice. The Slavs arrived in the territory of the present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries. From the late 6th century, parts of modern Slovakia were incorporated into the Pannonian Avars, Avar Khaghanate. In the 7th century, the Slavs played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. When the Avar Khaghanate dissolved in the 9th century, the Slavs established the Principality of Nitra before it was annexed by the Great Moravia, Principality of Moravia, which later became Great Moravia. When Great Moravia fell in the 10th century, the territory was integrated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Košice
Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest city in Slovakia, after the capital Bratislava. Being the economic and cultural centre of eastern Slovakia, Košice is the seat of the Košice Region and Košice Self-governing Region, it belongs to the :sk:Košicko-prešovská aglomerácia, Košice-Prešov agglomeration, and is home to the Constitutional Court of Slovakia, Slovak Constitutional Court, three universities, various dioceses, and many museums, galleries, and theatres. In 2013, Košice was the European Capital of Culture, together with Marseille, France. Košice is an important industrial centre of Slovakia, and the U. S. Steel Košice, s.r.o., U.S. Steel Košice steel mill is the largest employer in the city. The town has extensive railway connections and an Košice Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Trčka
Dominik Trčka (6 July 1886 – 23 March 1959), also known by his religious name ''Metod'', was a Czech priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists). Trčka was engaged in parish missions but went on to also serve Greek Catholics and cater to the needs of the Eastern Rite Catholics who often felt neglected and in great need of pastoral assistance; this was something that Trčka was more than willing to provide for he made serious inroads in terms of the pastoral aid he provided to those people. He is regarded as a martyr of the Catholic church and was beatified in Saint Peter's Square on 4 November 2001. Life Dominik Trčka was born in 1886 in the Czech Republic as the last of seven children to Tomáš Trčka and Františka Šterbová. He entered the Redemptorist novitiate in BilskoPoland in 1902 and he made his profession on 25 August 1904 before returning to Obořiště in his homeland so that he could pursue the required philosophical and theological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Peter Gojdič
Pavel Peter Gojdič (also known as Pavol Gojdič or Peter Gojdič; 17 July 1888 — 17 July 1960), was a Rusyns, Rusyn Order of Saint Basil the Great, Basilian monk and the eparch of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church, Slovak Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Prešov, Eparchy of Prešov. Following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, he was arrested by the StB, the secret police of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and imprisoned on charges of high treason. Despite promises of immediate release if he would agree to become patriarch of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church in Czechoslovakia, Gojdič died at Leopoldov Prison as a prisoner of conscience in 1960. Following the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Gojdič was posthumously honoured by post-communist Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. For his Rescue of Jews by Catholics during the Holocaust, role in saving 1500 Slovak Jew, Jewish lives duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Bober
Monsignor Bernard Bober (born 3 November 1950) is a Slovak catholic prelate. He is the Archbishop of Archdiocese of Košice, chair of the Conference of Slovak Bishops and Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University in Ružomberok. Biography Bernard Bober was born on 3 November 1950 in the village of Zbudské Dlhé in Czechoslovakia. He was ordained priest on 8 June 1974 in the St Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava. Following his ordination, he served as a chaplain in the towns of Humenné, Snina and Zborov. From 1978 to 1990 he was the parish priest in the village of Kecerovce. In 1991 he was named the vicar general of the Diocese of Košice. On 29 December 1992 Bober was named Auxiliary Bishop of Košice and Titular Bishop of Vissalsa by the Pope John Paul II. He was consecrated on 30 January 1993 at the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth in Košice by the Cardinal Jozef Tomko and co-concentrated by the Bishop of Košice Alojz Tkáč and Archbishop of Trnava Ján Sokol. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consecration In Christianity
Consecration is the transfer of a person or a thing to the sacred sphere for a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different groups. The origin of the word comes from the Latin stem ''consecrat'', which means dedicated, devoted, and sacred. A synonym for consecration is sanctification; its antonym is desecration. Christianity In Christianity, consecration means "setting apart" a person, as well as a building or object, for God. Among some Christian denominations there is a complementary service of "deconsecration", to remove a consecrated place of its sacred character in preparation for either demolition or sale for secular use. Catholic Church "Consecration" is used in the Catholic Church as the setting apart for the service of God, of both persons and objects. Ordination of bishops The Constitution on the Sacred Liturg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio (; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was a 19th-century Italian teenager who was a student of John Bosco and became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. He was noted for his piety and devotion to the Catholic Church, Catholic faith, and was canonized a saint by Pope Pius XII in 1954. Bosco regarded Savio very highly, and wrote a biography of his young student, ''The Life of Dominic Savio''. This volume, along with other accounts of him, were critical factors in his cause for canonisation, sainthood. Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age (14) to be considered for sainthood, he was considered eligible for such a singular honour on the basis of displaying "heroic virtue" in his everyday life. Savio was Canonization, canonised a saint on 12 June 1954 by Pope Pius XII, making him the youngest non-martyr to be canonised in the Catholic Church, until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alojz Tkáč
Monsignor Alojz Tkáč (2 March 1934 – 23 May 2023) was a Slovak Roman Catholic prelate. He was the bishop of Košice from 1990 to 1995, the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Košice from 1995 to 2010 and archbishop emeritus until his death. Early life Tkáč was born in the village of Ohradzany to a religious farming family. His father was the mayor of the village. He wanted to become a priest since childhood. Following education at a Grammar School in Humenné, he applied to study theology at the Comenius University, where he was accepted in 1956 after being turned down three times. Church career Priesthood and persecution Tkáč was consecrated in 1961 by the Bishop of Trnava Ambróz Lazík. Following the mandatory military service, Tkáč worked in the archive of the Košice Diocese. On 23 October 1974 Tkáč criticized the state of the church at an internal meeting. His speech was broadcast by Vatican Radio and Radio Free Europe. The Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Košice
The Archdiocese of Košice (, ) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in eastern Slovakia, with its seat in Košice. It covers the central and eastern parts of the Prešov and Košice regions, with an area of 10,403 km2. The diocese's area has a total population of 1,153,505 people, of which around 61% were of Catholic faith as of 2012. The Cathedral of St. Elizabeth serves as the seat of the diocese. The current Archbishop, Bernard Bober was appointed on June 4, 2010, and canonically took power of the archdiocese on July 10, 2010. He had formerly served as auxiliary bishop under Alojz Tkáč. On June 11, 2016, priest Marek Forgáč was appointed as the new auxiliary bishop by Pope Francis. History It was first created in 1804 under name Diocese of Košice as a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Eger. In 1977, the metropolitan was changed to the newly established ecclesiastical province of Trnava. On 31 March 1995, a new ecclesiastical province was created, changing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
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Hungarian Revolution Of 1848
The Hungarian Revolution of 1848, also known in Hungary as Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 () was one of many Revolutions of 1848, European Revolutions of 1848 and was closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. Although the revolution failed, it is one of the most significant events in Hungary's modern history, forming the cornerstone of modern Hungarian national identity—the anniversary of the Revolution's outbreak, 15 March, is one of Hungary's three Public holidays in Hungary, national holidays. In April 1848, Hungary became the third country of Continental Europe (after France, in 1791, and Belgium, in 1831) to enact a law implementing democratic parliamentary elections. The new suffrage law (Act V of 1848) transformed the old feudal parliament (The Estates, Estates General) into a democratic representative parliament. This law offered the widest right to vote in Europe at the time. The April laws utterly erased all pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
