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Patience to all who are waiting! Congratulations to all who have stood out their turn in the queue! I cannot help rejoicing that Orthodox Rus' is awakening! They might have put on a train and carried the relic across the whole country, so that people in different cities could
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The open letter of Metropolitan Ambrosios was deemed insulting to the Permanent Synod and to the entire episcopate of the Church of Greece. In the letter, addressed to Archbishop Ieronymos and his fellow hierarchs, Metropolitan Ambrosios accuses the church leadership of silence while Greek society sinks into a moral and
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On 28 June 1899, the Tsarevich and Heir Apparent, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, third son of Alexander III and younger brother of Nicholas II, set out from Abastumani towards the Zekari Pass on a petrol-engined tricycle. He had been taking treatment here for tuberculosis for many years. The newspaper
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Matthew 6:21 A good Van Dyckian night to you! We are all on our own flight into Egypt, and like the Holy Family, we sometimes need a rest.
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Swedish astrophysicist Göran Henriksson of Uppsala University has established that the pagan inhabitants of Old Uppsala used an exact lunisolar calendar to fix the date of the great winter sacrifice. In the pre-Christian era Old Uppsala was the principal religious and political centre of the Svear, one of the
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No matter what was around them. And no matter what the blizzard was drawlingly howling about; That they were cramped in the shepherd's lodging, That there was no other place for them in the world. Firstly, they were together. The second thing, and the main one, was that
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Among the many museum and gallery events of the past week, I want to single out one: the exhibition "Childhood. Adolescence. Sanctity" at the Andrei Rublev Museum, which runs from 3 September to 15 November 2026. More than a hundred works from the late fifteenth to the early
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In 1900 Stelletsky and Kustodiev made an expedition through the Kostroma Governorate, and in 1903 through the Russian North and the Novgorod Governorate. They travelled to ancient Russian towns and monasteries, sometimes together, sometimes separately, sketching monastic frescoes and icons and noting down their impressions. Kustodiev, as you can see,
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Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly. In the digest, for my part, I try to gather what has been published over the month while the memories are still fresh. So, the main things on the channel for August. The section on archaeology
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A cheap copper-alloy ring, dug up in the 1960s at Herodium, King Herod's fortress-palace in the Judaean Desert, bearing the image of a vessel and the Greek letters ΠΙΛΑΤΟ. Despite suggestions that the signet might have belonged to the most famous official in history, Pontius Pilate,
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Christ Pantocrator in the Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo, Yaroslavl. Frescoes of the 1690s by the artel of Dmitry Plekhanov and Fyodor Ignatyev Photograph of the 1940s