St. Stephen’s Cathedral (more commonly known by its German title: Stephansdom) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP. The current Romanesque and Gothic form of the cathedral, seen today in the Stephansplatz, was largely initiated by Duke Rudolf…[Read more]

The St. Stepanos Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Ստեփանոս եկեղեցի, romanized: Surb Stepanos yekeghetsi) was an Armenian church located in the Basmane district of the city of Smyrna (now İzmir), Turkey.

St. Stepanos Church – Wikipedia

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Lmbatavank – Officially, the Saint Stephen Church of Lmbat Monastery (Armenian: Լմպատի վանքի Սուրբ Ստեփանոս եկեղեցի), more commonly known as Lmbatavank (Armenian: Լմբատավանք), is a church located on a hillside southwest of the town of Artik in the Shirak Province of Armenia. It was constructed in the 7th-century and was dedicated to Saint Stephen

The Saint Stepanos Monastery (Armenian: Սուրբ Ստեփանոս վանք, Surb Stepanos Vank; Persian: کلیسای سن استپانوس, Kelisā-ye San Estepānus), also known in Armenian as Maghardavank (Մաղարդավանք), is an Armenian monastery located about 15 km northwest of the city of Julfa in the province of East Azarbaijan, northwestern Iran. It is situated in a deep c…[Read more]

Saint Stephen’s Purse (Latin: Sacculum idem Sanctus Stephanus, German: Stephansbursa or Stephansburse) is a rectangular gold 9th century reliquary studded with gem stones that is part of the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire. It consists of a purse containing soil that is claimed to be soaked with the blood of St. Stephen.[1] It is held in…[Read more]

Church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura in Rome – Holy Relics of Saint Stephan kept in there together with Saint Lawrence

San Lorenzo fuori le mura – Wikipedia

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The Basilica Papale di San Lorenzo fuori le mura (Papal Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls)…

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Beit Jimal – Beit Jimal (or Beit Jamal; Hebrew: בית ג’מאל; Arabic: بيت جمال / الحكمة), Beit el Jemâl, meaning “The house of the camel”[1] is a Catholic monastery run by Salesian priests and brothers near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The Christian tradition identifies the site with the Roman- and Byzantine-era Jewish village of Caphargamala (כפר גמ…[Read more]

Saint Stephen – Stephen (Greek: Στέφανος Stéphanos, meaning “wreath, crown” and by extension “reward, honor, renown, fame”, often given as a title rather than as a name; Hebrew: סטפנוס הקדוש, Stephanos HaQadosh; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity,[1] was, according to the Acts of the Apost…[Read more]

Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Perpetual virginity of Mary – Wikipedia

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The perpetual virginity of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church,[2] and states that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a virgin ante partum, in partu, et post…

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Замъчи се Божа Майка – Българска Народна Коледна ( Коледарска ) песен

Рождество Христово! Честит Празник

професор Иван Гълъбов

Черноризец Храбър
(IX – X век)

Кратко животоописание
Черноризец Храбър – един от блестящите представители на старобългарската литература от т. нар. Златен век, е обект на множество хипотези. Спори се дали ХРАБЪР е истинското име или е псевдоним. Правени са опити за идентифициране с известни исторически личности: с Константин-Кирил Философ,…[Read more]

Йоан Екзарх
Joan Ekzarh

IX век

“Шестоднев” от Йоан Екзарх Български. Препис от ХV в. Съхранява се в библиотеката на Рилския манастир.

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Йоан Екзарх като книжовник и учен Цветана Чолова
Ватикански открития за “Черноризец Храбър” Трендафил Кръстанов
Из “Похвала за Йоан Богослов” Йоан Екзарх
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Константин Преславски
Konstantin Preslavsky (Constantine Preslavsky)
Константин Преславский

IX – X век

Историкии за Бога, съдържащи накратко годините от Адам до Пришествието Христово и пак от Христос до сегашния 12-ти индик
Константин Преславски

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“Княз Борис І”. Миниатюра в Учително евангелие на Константин Пре…[Read more]

Св. Наум Преславско-Охридски бележит просветител
Иван Грудев

Братя, нека да не остане без помен и
презвитер Наум, този брат, другар и
състрадалец на блажения Климент…
Из Най-старото житие на св. Наум, първа четвърт на X в.

Св. Наум Охридски. Щампа на Х. Жефарович, 1743 г.Навършват се 1150 години от рождението на презвитер Наум, ученика,…[Read more]

Тропар на св. Порфирй Кавсокаливит гл.1

Тропар на преп. Наум Охридски

Tre Fontane Abbey

Tre Fontane Abbey – Wikipedia

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Tre Fontane Abbey (English: Three Fountains Abbey; Latin: Abbatia trium fontium ad Aquas Salvias), or the Abbey of Saints Vincent and Anastasius, is a Roman Catholic abbey in Rome, held by monks of the Cistercian Order…

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Saint Anastasius of Persia (whose given name was Magundat), was originally a Zoroastrian soldier in the Sasanian army. He later became a convert to Christianity and was martyred in 628.

Biography
Anastasius was born in the city of Ray. He was the son of a Magian named Bau. He had a brother whose name is unknown. He was a cavalryman in the army of…[Read more]