Constantine XI (1449-1453) and the capture of Constantinople by the Turks Territories recognize the authority of the last Byzantine emperor in Constantinople were reduced, with its immediate surroundings in Thrace, and most of the Peloponnesus or Morea, at some distance from the capital, governed by brothers king. Honesty, nobility, power, manhood and patriotism were the …
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The fundamental assertion “believe in God”, although seemingly simple in its essentiality, is a reality that opens to the world the infinite mystery of communion with God and His dispensation. Act of faith means letting ourselves be gripped by the truth that is God, a truth that is Love, Jesus Christ, who emptied the sky …
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Duminica 1 Mai – Vecernia Luminata (citirea Evangheliei in mai multe limbi straine) – 12pm – 2pm; Luni 2 – A doua zi de Pasti: Sf. Liturghie: 10am – 12pm; Marti 3 – A treia zi de Pasti: Sf. Liturghie: 10am – 12pm; Vineri 6 – Izvorul Tamaduirii: Sfintirea Apei: 7pm – 9pm; Sambata 7 …
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DIVINE CHANT Author: Milena Munteanu Published in literary confluences Issue no. 1949 of May 2, 2016 Byzantine Choir of Toronto has kept his word, returning the day of Saint George in front of a broad audience, as it promised to do, to support another one of thematic concerts according to the liturgical season of the …
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On February 20 marks 160 years since the abolition of slavery in the Romanian principalities time. After five centuries of the Middle Ages difficult in 1856, Roma were free men, without a master. „Musă ce lui Omir odinioară/ Cântaşi Vatrahomiomahia,/ Cântă şi mie, fii bunişoară,/ Toate câte făcu ţigănia,/ Când Vlad Vodă îi dede slobozie,/ …
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Constantin Brancusi was born on 19 February 1876 in Hobiţa, a small village from Peştişani, Gorj County, at the foot of the Carpathians. It is the fifth child of Mary and Radu Nicolae Brancusi. Although came from a family of wealthy peasants, Brancusi lead a modest life, but one who had to pick the landmarks …
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“Πόλις αρχαιοτάτη και τωνγε εν τη εώα πασών αρίστη” Ioánnis Evghenikós Trebizond is the end of the most difficult and less hospitable sea routes on the southern shore of Pontus: a line laced beginning of the exit of the Bosphorus – the most beautiful piece of land in the world – and goes to Colchis, …
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Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, “the Church’s far-gleaming beacon,” lived during the ninth century, and came from a family of zealous Christians. His father Sergius died as a martyr in defense of holy icons. St Photius received an excellent education and, since his family was related to the imperial house, he occupied the position of …
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