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Orthodox Easter dates from 4 April to 8 May and years it coincides with Catholic Easter
On 5 May, as in 2024, Easter fell in 1850, 1861, 1907, 1918, 1929, 2002 and 2013. The next time Easter will be celebrated on 5 May is in 2097. The latest Orthodox Easter will be celebrated in 2078, on 8 May. The previous time such a date occurred was
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Tikhon, the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia since the restoration of the patriarchate in 1917, at the Easter moleben by the Nikolsky Gate, 5 May 1918
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Preparing a Curd Paskha by Nineteenth-Century Recipes
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Easter greeting in the Near Caves and the reply of the departed saints
A Paschal Miracle Is Entered in the Chronicle of the Kyiv Caves Lavra under the Year 1463. “One of the brethren” entered the Near Caves, where the bodies of the departed saints lie at rest, and cried out: “Holy fathers and brethren, today is a great day for us: Christ
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Greetings on the approaching feast of Easter
Dyeing Eggs on Mount Athos. Wishing everyone a happy approaching bright feast of Easter, without exaggeration the chief feast of the year!
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Pattern for Embroidering a Griffin, 1589
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Three Caravaggio Paintings of Saint Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel in Rome
The Church of Saint Louis of the French in Rome, between the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, became famous thanks to three masterpieces by Caravaggio, painted in 1599-1602 for the interior of the Contarelli Chapel. The canvases depict scenes from the life of Saint Matthew: the Calling, the Inspiration (the
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Agatha Christie Tries to Guess Which Pile of Books Will Collapse First
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Painting detail: angels and putti among clouds above a rock
Faith · Art · Madrid · Museums · Rome
Two El Greco sketches for a Madrid polyptych in Palazzo Barberini, Rome
To see an El Greco in the flesh is a great stroke of luck. Of the slightly more than a hundred surviving works by El Greco in the world, Russia holds, for example, just five, and Italy eleven, of which Rome has only two, both in the Palazzo Barberini. These
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Until 16 June the Quirinal Palace in Rome hosts the exhibition “Napoli Ottocento”, that is, “Naples, the Nineteenth Century”
At the end of the eighteenth century the discovery of the ruins of Pompeii, the great popularity of the Grand Tour among the aristocracy and the enlightened elite, the fascination with the incessant eruptions of Vesuvius and the love of romantic landscapes made Naples the third city of Europe, after