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The Monks Simeon, Fool-for-Christ, and his Fellow-Ascetic John were Syrians, and they lived in the sixth century at the city of Edessa. From childhood they were bound by close ties of friendship. The older of them, Simeon, was unmarried and lived with his aged mother. John, however, although he was married, lived with his father …

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Every year on 29 May we remember the glory of Byzantium and millennial, because on this day in 1453, it fell under Ottoman Constantinople, capital of the empire known in history as the “Byzantine”. Byzantine culture and civilization continued after the fall of Constantinople in the Orthodox space, as Byzantium after Byzantium concept formulated by …

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