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13 May (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
May 12 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 14 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 26 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For May 13th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 30. Saints * Saint-Righteous Gamaliel the Elder, Pharisee, Teacher of The Law (mid-1st century) * Virgin-martyr Glyceria at Heraclea, Propontis (c. 138-161)May 13 The Roman Martyrology. * Martyr Laodicius, jailer of Saint Glyceria (c. 138-161) * Saint Theoctistus, monk from Tekoa, Palestine * Saint Pausicacus, Bishop of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Ancient Diocese Of Auxerre
The diocese of Auxerre () is a former French Roman Catholic diocese. Its historical episcopal see was in the city of Auxerre in Burgundy (region), Burgundy, now part of eastern France. Currently the non-metropolitan Archbishop of Sens, ordinary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens, diocese of Sens and Auxerre, resides in Auxerre. Ecclesiastical history The ''Gesta pontificum Autissiodorensium'', written about 875 by the Canon (priest), canons Rainogala and Alagus, and later continued up to 1278, gives a list of bishops of Auxerre. Louis Duchesne regards the list as mostly accurate, but very arbitrary in its dates prior to the 7th century. Auxerre is remarkable among French churches for the number of its bishops who have come to be regarded as saints. Bishops of the original ''Gesta'' Peregrine of Auxerre (Pélérin 'pilgrim') was the founder of the See of Auxerre; according to the legend, he was sent by Pope Sixtus II and was martyred under Emperor Diocletian in 303 or 304 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The historic county town of Berkshire, the area was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age and the remains of a late Iron Age and Roman defensive enclosure lies below the town centre. Abingdon Abbey was founded around 676, giving its name to the emerging town. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Abingdon was an agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool, alongside weaving and the manufacture of clothing. Charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted by various monarchs, from Edward I to George II. The town survived the dissolution of the abbey in 1538, and by the 18th and 19th centuries, with the building of Abingdon Lock in 1790 and the Wilts & Berks Canal in 1810, Abingdon was on important routes for goods transport. In 1856 the Abingdon Railway opened, linking the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbán
Abbán of Corbmaic (, ; d. 520?), also Eibbán or Moabba, was a saint and abbot. He is associated, first and foremost, with the Mag Arnaide (Moyarney or Adamstown, County Wexford, near New Ross).Ó Riain, "Abbán" His order was, however, also connected to other churches elsewhere in Ireland, notably that of his alleged sister Gobnait. Sources Three recensions of Abbán's ''Life'' survive, two in Latin and one in Irish. The Latin versions are found in the ''Codex Dublinensis'' and the '' Codex Salmanticensis'', while the Irish version is preserved incomplete in two manuscripts: the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's manuscript Brussels, Royal Library MS 2324–40, fos. 145b-150b and also the RIA, Stowe MS A 4, pp. 205–21. These ''Lives'' probably go back to a Latin exemplar written in ''ca''. 1218 by the bishop of Ferns, Albin O'Molloy, who died in 1223. His interest in Abbán partly stemmed from the fact that Mag Arnaide lay within the diocese of Ferns, but as this was only a mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George The Hagiorite
George the Hagiorite ( ka, გიორგი მთაწმინდელი) (1009 – 27 June 1065) was a Georgian monk, calligrapher, religious writer, theologian, and translator, who spearheaded the activities of Georgian monastic communities in the Byzantine Empire. His epithets ''Mt'ats'mindeli'' and ''At'oneli'', meaning "of the Holy Mountain" ( Hagiorite) and "of Athos" ( Athonite) respectively, are a reference to his association with the Iviron monastery on Mount Athos, where he served as hegumen. One of the most influential Christian churchmen of medieval Georgia, George acted as an arbitrator and facilitator of cross-cultural engagement between his native country and the Byzantine Empire. He extensively translated the Fathers of the Church, the Psalms, works of exegesis and synaxaria from Greek – some things which had not previously existed in Georgian, revised some others, and improved the translations of one of his predecessors, Euthymius of Athos, to whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John The Iberian
John the Iberian ( ka, იოანე მთაწმინდელი; died ) was a Georgian monk, who is venerated as a saint. His name refers to his origins from the Kingdom of the Iberians. Life A member of a Georgian noble family from Tao-Klarjeti in southern Georgia, he was married and served as a military commander. After becoming tonsured as a monk early 960s at the lavra of the Four Churches in Tao-Klarjeti, he became a monk at Mount Olympus (now Uludağ) in Bithynia and then traveled to Constantinople to rescue his son, Euthymius the Illuminator (''Euthymius Opplyseren''). Euthymius had been held as a hostage by the emperor. John and his son attracted many followers, so they both retired to the monastery of Saint Athanasius on Mount Athos. They founded Iviron monastery The Monastery of Iviron ( ka, ათონის ივერთა მონასტერი , tr; ) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Athos
Mount Athos (; ) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece directly on the Aegean Sea. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox monasticism. The mountain and most of the Athos peninsula are governed as an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous region in Greece by the monastic community of Mount Athos, which is ecclesiastically under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The remainder of the peninsula forms part of the Aristotelis (municipality), Aristotelis municipality. By Greek law and by religious tradition, women are prohibited from entering the area governed by the monastic community. Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its long Christian presence and historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 AD during the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine era. Because of its long history of religious importance, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iveron Monastery
The Monastery of Iviron ( ka, ათონის ივერთა მონასტერი , tr; ) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece. History The monastery was built under the supervision of two Georgian monks, John the Iberian and John Tornike between AD 980–83 and housed Georgian clergy and priests. It was founded on the site of the former Monastery of Clement. John the Iberian was appointed as the abbot of the newly founded monastery in 980. In 1005, Euthymius the Iberian became the secondary abbot of Iviron Monastery. In Greek, Iviron literally means "of the Iberians". The monastery ranks third in the Athonite hierarchy of 20 sovereign monasteries. Notable people * John Tornike (died 985) * John the Iberian (died c. 1002) * Gabriel the Iberian (c. 10th century) * Euthymius of Athos (c. 955-1028) * George the Hagiorite (1009-1065) * Archimandrite Averchie Archimandrite Averchie or Averkios (1806/1818 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euthymius Of Athos
Euthymius the Athonite ( ka, ექვთიმე ათონელი ''Ekvtime Atoneli''; 955–1024) was a Georgian monk, philosopher and scholar, who is venerated as a saint. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is May 13. Euthymius was a Georgian, the ethnonym used by the Byzantines as ''Iberian'', that came from the Kingdom of the Iberians. The son of John the Iberian and nephew of the Tornike Eristavi, Euthymius was taken as a political hostage to Constantinople but was later released and became a monk joining the Great Lavra of Athanasios on Mount Athos. He subsequently became the leader of the Georgian Iviron monastery, which had been founded by his father, and emerged as one of the finest Eastern Christian theologians and scholars of his age. Euthymius labored as abbot of the Iviron Monastery on Mt. Athos for fourteen years before stepping aside to concentrate on his translations. Fluent in Georgian, Greek and other languages, he translated many religious treati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confessor
In a number of Christian traditions, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism, a confessor is a priest who hears the confessions of penitents and pronounces absolution. History During the Diocletianic Persecution, a number of Christians had, under torture or threat thereof, weakened in their profession of the faith. When persecutions ceased under Constantine the Great, they wanted to be reunited with the church. It became the practice of the penitents to go to the Confessors, who had willingly suffered for the faith and survived, to plead their case and effect their restoration to communion. Over time, the word came to denote any priest who had been granted the authority to hear confessions. Historically, priests were sometimes tested by officers of the church called examiners, before being granted this authority. As spiritual advisor An individual may have a regular confessor, sometimes called a "spiritual advisor" or "spiritual fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
