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The Lord's Prayer read in English in Orthodox churches in Australia
The Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Melbourne, Australia. It turns out that in Orthodox churches in Australia the "Our Father" is also recited in English. It sounds very unfamiliar. The text, as I understand it, is taken from Protestant translations. I consider it
Archive · Faith · Moscow · Mores · Society
The Council Code of 1649 forbade Russians to serve unbaptised foreigners
The Arrival of Foreigners in Moscow in the Seventeenth Century, Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov, 1901. Until the reign of Peter, all Europeans in Russia were called, and written down as, unbaptised. And the Council Code of 1649 laid down outright a prohibition on Russians serving, or being in bondage, to unbaptised
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums
The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery
The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery. Collection of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum
NB! · Archive · Faith · Monarchies
Nicholas II blesses soldiers of the 37th Division with an icon before their departure for the Russo-Japanese War front
Nicholas II blesses soldiers departing for the front of the Russo-Japanese War with the icon of the Saviour Not Made by Hands. Farewell to the 37th Division
Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Icon “The Baptism” from a Festal Tier, Second Half of the 17th Century, in the Russian Museum
Happy Epiphany! Second half of the 17th century, icon “The Baptism of Christ” from the festal tier, Russian Museum collection
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Pope Francis: Chastity Is a Virtue Not to Be Confused with Sexual Abstinence
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Exhibition “Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde” at the Voznesensky Center on the Christian intelligentsia
For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope.
NB! · Archive · Faith · Moscow
Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913
Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913. The Russia we have lost
Faith · Interviews · Observations · People
Pope Francis tells Italian television he hopes hell is empty, calling it a personal view
Pope Francis says he likes to think that hell is empty. Yesterday evening, in an interview with Italian television, Francis said, verbatim: "What I am about to say is not dogma, but something personal: I like to think of hell as empty, and I hope that this is the
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Ethnography
The Layout of the Burial Chamber and Sarcophagi of the Rulers of Ancient Egypt: The Tomb of Tutankhamun as a Case Study
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