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October 21 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
October 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 22 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For October 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 8. Saints * Hieromartyr Socrates, Priest, and Martyr Theodote, of Ancyra (c. 230)October 21 / November 3 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής. 21 Οκτωβρίου '' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). * Martyrs Dasius, Gaius, and Zoticus at |
Hilarion
Hilarion (291–371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza, and in the Orthodox Church as the Great was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While Anthony is considered to have established Christian monasticism in the Western Desert (Egypt), Egyptian Desert, Hilarion, who lived in the Israeli Coastal Plain, coastal area near Gaza City, Gaza, is considered by his biographer Jerome (c. 342/347 – 420), to be the founder of Palaestina Prima, Palestinian monasticism - regarding this claim see also Hilarion's contemporary, Chariton the Confessor , Chariton (mid-3rd century – c. 350), founder of monasticism in the Judaean Desert. Hilarion is venerated as a saint exemplifying monastic virtues by the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Origin and life as a hermit Hilarion was born around 291 to pagan parents in Tabatha, a village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Ursula
Ursula (Latin for 'little she-bear') was a Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. Her feast day in the pre-1970 General Roman Calendar and in some regional calendars of the ordinary form of the Roman Rite is 21 October. History There is little information about Ursula or the anonymous group of holy virgins who accompanied her and, on an uncertain date, were killed along with her at Colonia Agrippina. They remain in the Roman Martyrology, although their commemoration does not appear in the simplified General Roman Calendar of the 1970 Missale Romanum. The earliest evidence of a cult of martyred virgins at Cologne is an inscription from in the Church of St. Ursula, located on Ursulaplatz in Cologne. This inscription commonly referred to as the Clematius Inscription states that the ancient basilica had been restored by senator Clemantius on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viator Of Lyons
Viator is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. José Brocca lived here. Demographics See also *List of municipalities in Almería Almería (province), Almería is a provinces of Spain, province in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 103 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Spanish census, Almería is t ... References External links *Viator��Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía *�� Diputación Provincial de Almería Municipalities in the Province of Almería {{Almería-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Callixtus I
Pope Callixtus I ( Greek: Κάλλιστος), also called Callistus I, was the bishop of Rome (according to Sextus Julius Africanus) from to his death or 223.Chapman, John (1908). "Pope Callistus I" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. He lived during the reigns of the Roman emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. Eusebius and the Liberian catalogue list his episcopate as having lasted five years (217–222). In 217, when Callixtus followed Zephyrinus as Bishop of Rome, he started to admit into the Church converts from sects or schisms. He was killed for being Christian and is venerated as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church (the patron saint of cemetery workers). Life Callixtus I's contemporaries and enemies, Tertullian and Hippolytus of Rome, the author of '' Philosophumena'', relate that Callixtus, as a young slave from Rome, was put in charge of collected funds by his master Carpophorus, funds which were given as alms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asterius Of Ostia
Asterius of Ostia (d. 3rd century AD) was a martyred priest venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Information on him is based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Saint Callixtus''.Sabine Baring-Gould, ''The Lives of the Saints''. Vol. 2. (J. Hodges, 1877). Digitized June 6, 2007. Page 506. Life According to tradition, he was a priest of Rome who recovered the body of Pope Callixtus I after it had been dumped into a well around 222 AD. Asterius buried Callixtus' body at night, but was arrested for this by the prefect Alexander, and executed by being thrown off a bridge into the Tiber River. His body washed up at Ostia and was buried there. Catholic Online Veneration Asterius was venerated from at least the 4th or 5th centuries. The |
Hippolyte Delehaye
Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J., (19 August 1859 – 1 April 1941) was a Belgian Jesuit who was a hagiographical scholar and an outstanding member of the Society of Bollandists. Biography Born in 1859 in Antwerp, Delehaye joined the Society of Jesus in 1876, being received into the novitiate the following year. After making his initial profession of religious vows in 1879, he was sent to study philosophy at the University of Louvain from 1879 to 1882. He was then assigned until 1886 to teach mathematics at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Ghent (named for the school in Paris, '' alma mater'' of Ignatius of Loyola). Delehaye was ordained in 1890. In 1892 Fr Delehaye was appointed by his Jesuit superiors to be a fellow of the Society of Bollandists, named for the 17th-century hagiographical scholar Jean Bolland, S.J., and founded the early seventeenth century specifically to study hagiography, research towards the gathering and evaluation of historical documentary sources regarding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicodemus The Hagiorite
Nicodemus the Hagiorite or Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (; 1749 – July 14, 1809) was a Greek ascetic monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher, venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His life's work was a revival of traditional Christian practices and patristic literature. He wrote ascetic prayer literature and influenced the rediscovery of hesychasm, a method of contemplative prayer from the Byzantine period. He is most famous for his work with Macarius of Corinth on the anthology of monastic spiritual writings known as '' The Philokalia'', as well as for his compilation of canons known as the ''Pedalion'' (or ''The Rudder'') which he co-wrote with a hieromonk named Agapios Monachos. With Macarios of Corinth, Nicodemus was responsible for the compilation and publishing of The Evergetinos, thoroughly reviewing a vast collection of materials from a number of other collections of sayings of monastics and others, ranging from the well-known works of St. John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batheos Rhyakos Monastery
Batheos Rhyakos Monastery was a Byzantine-era monastery near medieval Trigleia in Bithynia (modern Tirilye in Turkey). It is known locally as Aya Sotiri. The church of the monastery had an east-west oriented rectangular naos, with a rounded apse in the north part of the east end and a narthex at the west end. The building’s exterior dimensions measured 16 by 9 meters. In the 1880s, the monastery was described as “neglected,” with only the four walls of the church and some scattered column A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member ...s remaining. However, In 1910, it seems to have been described as “recently restored.” When the area was cleared of brush and mapped in 1987, the monastery was in ruins and mostly rubble; then, in 1988, the landowner cleared the area w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oeconomus
''Oikonomos'' (, from - 'house' and - 'rule, law'), Latinized œconomus, oeconomus, or economos, was an Ancient Greek word meaning "household manager." In Byzantine times, the term was used as a title of a manager or treasurer of an organization. It is a title of honor awarded to priests in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is also a title in the Roman Catholic Church. In Canon 494 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, an œconomus is the diocesan finance officer. In Ancient Greece Role in the ''oikos'' The '' oikos'' (household) was the base unit for the organization of social, political, and economic life in the Ancient Greek world. The person in charge of all its affairs was the ''oikonomos''. The ''oikos'' was composed of a nuclear family as well as extended family members such as grandparents or unmarried female relatives. The husband of the core nuclear family was generally the ''oikonomos''. The ancient Greek world was a patrilocal society. A married woman would join her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 17 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
October 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 18 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For October 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 4. Saints * Prophet Hosea (Osee) (820 BC)October 17/30 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής. 17 Οκτωβρίου '' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). ''(see also: |
Constantine V
Constantine V (; July 718 – 14 September 775) was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of Third Fitna, civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Al-'Awasim, Arab frontier. With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgars in the Balkans. His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in Thrace, made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure. He was also responsible for important military and administrative innovations and reforms. Religious strife and controversy was a prominent feature of his reign. His fervent support of Byzantine Iconoclasm, iconoclasm and opposition to Christian monasticism, monasticism led to his vilification by some contemporary commentators and the majority of later Byzantine writers, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
