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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_virginity_of_Mary

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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Кратко животоописание
Йоан Екзарх като книжовник и учен Цветана Чолова
Ватикански открития за “Черноризец Храбър” Трендафил Кръстанов
Из “Похвала за Йоан Богослов” Йоан Екзарх
Из творчеството на…[Read more]

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

По-долу: Бележки от издателя

“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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Fontane_Abbey

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]

Kassia famous byzantine Hymnographer
Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced [kasia’ni]; c. 810 – before 865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet.[1] She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy.[2] Approximately fifty of her…[Read more]

San Crisogono, Rome /b> – San Crisogono is a church in Rome (rione Trastevere) dedicated to the martyr Saint Chrysogonus. It was one of the tituli, the first parish churches of Rome, and was probably built in the 4th century under Pope Sylvester I (314–335), rebuilt in the 12th century by John of Crema, and again by Giovanni Battista Soria, f…[Read more]

Palmaria is an Italian island situated in the Ligurian Sea, at the westernmost end of the Gulf of La Spezia. Measuring 1.6 square kilometres (0.6 sq mi), it is the largest island of an archipelago of three closely spaced islands jutting out south from the mainland at Portovenere. The other islands, Tino, and the tiny Tinetto lie further south.

In…[Read more]

The Menologion of Basil II (also called Menologium of Basil II, Menology of Basil II) is an illuminated manuscript designed as a church calendar or Eastern Orthodox Church service book (menologion) that was compiled c. 1000 AD, for the Byzantine Emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025). It contains a synaxarion, a short collection of saints’ lives, c…[Read more]

Stefano Antonio Morcelli – Stefano Antonio Morcelli (17 January 1737 – 1 January 1822) was an Italian Jesuit scholar, known as an epigraphist. His work De stilo Latinarum inscriptionum libri III, published in three volumes in 1781, which shows a rigorous method, a novelty and originality of approach, as well as a solid preparation, gave him his E…[Read more]

Saint Zoilus (died 304 AD) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Christian tradition states that he was a young man martyred with nineteen others at Córdoba, Spain under Diocletian.

Cordoba, Ermita de San Zoilo, statue of the Saint over the portal
Died 304AD
Venerated in Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine San…[Read more]