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December 15 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
December 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 16 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 28 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For December 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 2. Saints * Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, and Martyrs Anthia (his mother), Coremonus the Eparch (Corybus), and two executioners who suffered with them. (117-138) * Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium (beginning of the 4th century) ''(see also: August 4)'' * Martyr Susanna the Deaconess, ''Joanna in monasticism'', of Palestine (4th century) * Venerable Pardus the Hermit, of Palestine (6th century)December 15/28 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Saint Stephen the Confessor, Archbishop of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beşparmak Mountains
Beşparmak Mountains (; ) are a ridge of many Mountain spur, spurs located in the Muğla Province, Muğla and Aydın Province, Aydın provinces of Turkey, running in an east–west direction along the north shore of the former Latmian Gulf on the coast of Caria, which became part of Hellenised Ionia. The city of Latmus, located on the south slopes of Mount Latmus east of Miletus, was originally a port on the narrow gulf, as reported by Strabo. He also states that Latmus is the same as Mount Phthires in the Catalogue of Trojans. The mouth of the Gulf of Latmus began to fill with sediment from the Maeander (Büyük Menderes) river, which emptied into it, even in classical antiquity. By 300 CE Lake Bafa had formed behind the estuary marshes. It gradually diminished in salinity and would now be fresh water except that canals to the Aegean introduce a saline element. The ecology remains a brackish-water one and the lake has been made a bird sanctuary. Its area of with a maximum dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorze Abbey
Gorze Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Gorze in the present arrondissement of Metz, near Metz in Lorraine. It was prominent as the source of a monastic reform movement in the 930s. History Gorze Abbey was founded in around 757 by Bishop Chrodegang of Metz, who obtained for it from Rome the relics of Saint Gorgonius. The new community at first followed his Rule, but decline later set in. The highly placed Frankish lord Bivin of Gorze (810–863), married to a daughter of Boso the Elder, functioned as lay abbot of Gorze. In 933 the premises, by then semi-derelict, were given by Adalbero, Bishop of Metz, to John of Gorze and Einald of Toul so that they could restore observance of the Rule of St. Benedict. They did so extremely successfully and the customary of Gorze soon spread to many other monasteries, at first local, such as St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier, and St. Evre's Abbey, Toul, and later in more distant places, such as Bavaria, through the mediation of Wolfgang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalbero II Of Metz
Adalbero II of Metz ( or ; c. 958 - 14 December 1005) was a Catholic bishop of the 10th and 11th centuries. From 984 until his death he was the bishop of Verdun and bishop of Metz. He was the son of Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine and Beatrice of France, daughter of Hugh the Great. Biography Educated at Gorze Abbey, he was nominated to succeed the Bishop of Verdun, Wigfrid. Instead, Hugues II was chosen, but he renounced his seat after a year, and Adalbero succeeded to the seat. The death of Dietrich I of Metz on 7 September 984 prevented Adalbero from being officially appointed, and the same year, on 16 October, he was chosen to become the bishop of Metz, leaving the Bishopric of Verdun to one of his cousins, Adalbero II of Ardennes. Adalbero begins a new period of nearly six centuries, during which the see is no longer involved in the affairs of the court and develops a strong soclesiastical life, although troubled frequently by conflicts between the citizens of Metz an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huesca
Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), province of the same name and of the Comarcas of Spain, comarca of Hoya de Huesca/Plana de Uesca, Hoya de Huesca. In 2009, it had a population of 52,059, almost a quarter of the total population of the province. The city is one of the smallest provincial capitals in Spain. Huesca celebrates its main festival, the ''Fiestas de San Lorenzo'', in honor of Saint Lawrence, from 9 to 15 August. History Huesca dates from pre-Roman times, and was once known as ''Bolskan'' (Northeastern Iberian script, Iberian: file:Bolskan.svg, 50px) in the ancient Iberian language. It was once the capital of the Vescetani, in the north of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Tarraco (modern Tarragona) and Ilerda (modern Lleida) to Caesaraugusta (modern Zara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Urbicius
Urbicius (Urbitius, Urbez, Urbex, Urbiz, Urbice; died c. 805) was a French monk, now a Catholic saint. He was captured by Saracens, escaped, and became a hermit in the Pyrenees, in Aragon. His feast day is 15 December. The Sanctuary of San Úrbez, Huesca Huesca (; ) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon between 1096 and 1118. It is also the capital of the Spanish Huesca (province), ..., is named after him. Notes External links Un Santo Bordelés en Aragón* http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1888 * http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-urbicius/ 805 deaths Medieval French saints People from Bordeaux Year of birth unknown {{Saint-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offa Of Essex
Offa was King of Essex. D. H. Kirby dates his reign as 705 to 709. Simon Keynes dates it c.694 to 709, when he went on a pilgrimage to Rome, where he died as a monk, along with Cenred, King of Mercia. He may have been co-king with Swæfred. He was the son of Sighere, who had died in about 690. In his '' Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'', Bede described him as "a youth of most lovely age and beauty, and most earnestly desired by all his nation to be their king. He, with like devotion, quit his wife, lands, kindred and country, for Christ and for the Gospel, that he might receive an hundredfold in this life, and in the world to Come life everlasting. He also, when they came to the holy places at Rome, receiving the tonsure, and adopting a monastic life, attained the long wished-for sight of the blessed apostles in heaven." A charter related to land in Warwickshire (S64) is attributed to him, although in it he is described as King of Mercia rather than Essex. This may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangor Abbey
Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not to be confused with the slightly older abbey in Wales on the site of Bangor Cathedral. History Foundation Comgall founded the monastery at Bangor about 558 A.D. in the County Down, on the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The ancient Annals differ about the exact year, giving various dates between 552 and 559. The earliest, the Annals of Tighernach, and the Annals of Innisfallen, give 558 A.D. as the date of the foundation.Hamilton, James. "A Short History of Bangor Abbey", ''Bangor Abbey Through Fifteen Centuries'' The name was sometimes written "Beannchor." The place was also called the "Vale of Angels," be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 13 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
December 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 14 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 26 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For December 13th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 30. Saints * Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes, at Sebaste, also known as the Five Martyrs of Cappadocia (284-305)December 13/26 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Venerable Ares, monk in the Egyptian desert. * Venerable Arsenius the Ascetic of Mt. Latros () Pre-Schism Western saints * Martyr[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Cambrai-Arras
This is a List of bishops and archbishops of Cambrai, that is, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai. Bishops For the first bishops of Arras and Cambrai, who resided at the former place, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras. On the death of Saint Vedulphus (545–580) the episcopal residence was transferred from Arras to Cambrai. Among his successors were: * Saint Saint Gaugericus, Gaugericus (584–623) * Saint Saint Berthoaldus, Berthoald (627) * Saint (633–669) * Saint Saint Vindicianus, Vindicianus (669–693), who brought King Theuderic III of the Franks to account for the murder of Saint Léger of Autun * Emebert, also known as Ablebert (d. 710) * Saint Hadulfus, Hadulfus (d. 728) * Alberic and Hildoard, contemporaries of Charlemagne, who gave to the diocese a sacramentary and important canons * Halitgar (Halitgarius, Halitgaire) (817–831), an ecclesiastical writer and apostle of the Danes (Germanic tribe), Danes * Saint John of Cambrai (866–879) * Saint Rothad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubert Of Cambrai
Aubert of Cambrai () or Aubertus was a Merovingian Bishop of Cambrai and Arras and a Frankish saint. Biography Aubert of Cambrai was born around 600 AD in Austrasia, Francia. Aubert was consecrated as the bishop of the united sees of Arras and Cambrai on 24 March 633 AD. He succeeded Aldebert, bishop of Cambrai-Arras. Bishop Aubert promoted religion and the study of holy texts in Hainaut and Flanders. Through his influence, many nobles were Christianized, and King Dagobert became a major supporter of the Christian Church.The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--. (1844). United Kingdom: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. St. Landelin was entrusted to his care and was educated in learning and piety by St. Aubert. The bishop of Cambrai gave his benediction to St. Ghislain and blessed his hermitage (now Saint-Ghislain) on the Haine in the pagus Hainoensis. St. Aubert bestowed the religious habit upon Count of Hainaut Vincent Madelga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micy
Micy Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy (), sometimes referred to as Micy, was a Benedictine abbey near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, located on the territory of the present commune of Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin. Since 1939 it has hosted a community of Carmelites. History Early period The 9th century Life of Saint Maximin records that Euspicius, the archpriest of Verdun, went to meet Clovis I, who had come to punish the city for its revolt. After Euspicius obtained the royal pardon, the king attached himself to both him and his nephew Mesmin. While seeking a retreat in 508, Euspicius discovered an unoccupied royal villa named Micy near Orleans, situated at the confluence of the Loire and Loiret rivers. He received the domain of Micy from Clovis in order to establish a monastery there. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
