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Bachkovo Мonastery // Plovdiv Area // Bulgaria

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Η μονή της Αγίας Παρασκευής,κοντά στο Νεραϊδοχώρι,Τρικάλων

Το μοναστήρι της αγίας Παρασκευής κτίστηκε το 1792 απ' το Γιώργο ή Γούσιο Χατζηπέτρο δίπλα στο εκκλησάκι της Μεταμόρφωσης του Σωτήρα, που πιθανότατα ήταν κτισμένο πριν απ' το 1792. Είναι βασιλικού ρυθμού με τρούλο.

Το μοναστήρι είχε πρόβατα, γίδια, γελάδια και χωράφια. Τα χωράφια καλλιεργούσαν κοληγάδες (δηλ. άτομα που έπαιρναν το 1/2 ή το 1/3 της παραγωγής, μισακάρηδες ή τριτάρηδες). Την επίβλεψη έκαναν οι ηγούμενοι και οι καλόγηροι που έμεναν στα κελιά του μοναστηριού και ξεπερνούσαν τα 30 άτομα. Ώς ηγούμενοι αναφέρονται ο Δαμασκηνός, ο Ευλόγιος, Κήριλος και ο Χριστόφορος. Ώς καλόγηροι αναφέρονται ο Γεννάδιος και ο Νεόφυτος το 1911. Η διαμόρφωση του χώρου του μοναστηριού έγινε το 1977 με δωρεά του Κλέαρχου Δημητρίου και η πέτρινη βρύση κτίστηκε το 1980 με τη φροντίδα του παπα-Χρήστου.

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[sunn-mechanic]

[ID in alt]

Then & Now

HAPPY 14TH ANNIVERSARY NINJAGO HRHGHGHHHH

[ouidamforeman]

I keep remembering various DW expanded universe material where time lords are compared to Christian priests in different ways and it’s like ????? That is Always on my mind. Always. Time Lordism as religion. As asceticism. As being pure and holier than thou and strict and adherent. As puritanism. As deprivation and isolation and devotion. I am Thinking about it!!!!!!

[blueiscoool]

1,500-Year-Old Skeleton Found in Chains in Jerusalem was a Female 'Extreme Ascetic'

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had practiced religious bodily punishment was female.

Excavations of a series of crypts at the Byzantine monastery at Khirbat el-Masani, about 1.9 miles (3 kilometers) northwest of the Old City of Jerusalem, revealed the skeletons of several men, women and children. One tomb contained the poorly preserved bones of an individual wrapped in chains. The corpse was not constrained for nefarious reasons, archaeologists suggested. Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle. Initially, the Israel Antiquities Authority, which oversaw the dig, reported that this individual was male.

After Christianity became the main religion of the Roman Empire in A.D. 380, there was a surge of new monasteries and asceticism, in which monks abstained from worldly pleasures for spiritual purposes. A common practice of asceticism involved living at the top of a pillar while preaching and praying, often with heavy chains worn around the body.

In a study published in the April issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, researchers studied the bones in the chain-filled burial with the goal of confirming the person was male. But they got a big surprise: the person was probably female.

"The use of chains by male ascetics is widely documented," study co-author Elisabetta Boaretto, an archaeologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, told Live Science in an email, but "it's much rarer to find accounts of women using chains in the same way."

The person appeared to be between 30 and 60 years old at the time of death, but the bones were poorly preserved. So the researchers analyzed peptides — short chains of amino acids — in the person's tooth enamel to figure out their sex.

They found the presence of AMELX, an X-chromosome gene involved in enamel development, but no evidence of AMELY, the Y-chromosome gene that codes for the same thing. This meant the person very likely had two X chromosomes and was female.

"It is important to note that our results only show biological sex identification and not gender preference," the researchers wrote in the study.

Female ascetics are known from historical records, the study authors said, particularly among nobility starting in the fourth century. However, women in ascetic communities tended to pursue their spiritual paths in different ways that were generally less extreme than those practiced by men, Boaretto said. Prayer, fasting and meditation were more likely to be integral to women's spiritual journeys.

As physical restraints, chains were a more extreme way to practice asceticism, Boaretto said, as they were meant to keep the body in check and the spirit focused. "By restricting their physical movements, they created space for their minds and hearts to turn solely to God," she said.

Although other chained burials of ascetics have been discovered in the past, the identification of a woman buried in this way is highly unusual.

"The chains were likely viewed as integral to her identity as an ascetic," Boaretto said, and her burial "may have served to honor her ascetic life and ensure that her spiritual commitment continued to be recognized even after death."

By Kristina Killgrove.

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I find little Machete being happy over bread baking to be so endearing, especially because I can imagine a world in which helping with baking was one of the few childhood joys he had (due to the lack of art of him happy as a pup), and then remembering the art you did months back of modern Machete making a souffle, I can see reincarnated Machete being drawn towards baking in his free time due to those residual feelings from his past life.

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[polish-spirit]

Mężczyzna nad rzeką Osławą w pobliżu ruin klasztoru Karmelitów bosych w Zagórzu (1936).

[orthodoxadventure]

The Transfiguration Basilica of the Sinai Monastery with the Burning Bush

[travelingare]

📍Old Kardamyli Peloponnese Greece 🇬🇷

“Am I dreaming? No. I’m living in my dream”.

Wandering through Old Kardamyli feels like stepping into a timeless reverie, where ancient stone towers whisper tales of bygone eras and Byzantine churches stand as guardians of history.

Did you know?

Kardamyli’s roots trace back to Homer’s ‘Iliad.’

Here, every corner is a blend of myth and reality, a dance of shadows and light.

Come, lose yourself in its enchanting embrace.

@newsfromthevillage

Καλημέρα Ελλάδα!!

#oldkardamyli #timelessbeauty #travel #travelingare #peloponnese #greece #kalimera #ellada

[autistic-yuri]

I think we, as a fandom, should run with the joke and pretend that we spent an entire season with the random characters

[epestrefe]

Ι. Μ. Αγίου Δημητρίου Κρυονερίων

Το μοναστήρι του Αγίου Δημητρίου βρίσκεται στην τοποθεσία «Σέλπερη» νοτίως των Κρυονερίων Ορεινής Ναυπακτίας, είναι στην μέση περίπου της πλαγιάς Αετοράχης σε μέρος ομαλό και με μικρή κλίση προς τα ανατολικά.

Κτίστηκε το 1805 όταν ο τριανταπεντάχρονος τότε τσοπάνης Δημήτρης Τσουνόπουλοςή Τσώνης, από τα Κουτλίστια (σημερινά Κρυονέρια) ονειρεύτηκε ότι υπάρχει μία ιερή εικόνα στο πατρικό του χωράφι κοντά στο χωριό του και είδε επίσης τον Άγιο Δημήτριο να τον υποχρεώνει να κτίσει εκεί μια εκκλησία και να αφιερωθεί τόσο αυτός όσο και η οικογένειά του.

Ξύπνησε, πήγε στο χωράφι του, έσκαψε και βρήκε την εικόνα. Προσπάθησε να πείσει τους συγχωριανούς του αλλά δυστυχώς για αυτόν, δεν βρήκε την ανταπόκριση που ήθελε.

Τότε απευθύνθηκε στον Αλί Πασά και ζήτησε οικονομική ενίσχυση και την άδεια να κάνει εράνους στην περιοχή για να αναγείρει την εκκλησία.

Πηγή και περισσότερα στο:https://www.agriniopress.gr/dimitrioy-kryonerion/

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Monastery of Saint Nicholas of Sintza, Leonidio, Greece

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Cathedral Notre Dame of Lyon, France

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Minecraft Dark Old Mythical Town

[blueiscoool]

Rare Portrait of the Last Byzantine Emperor Discovered in Greece

The image of Constantine XI Palaiologos was probably painted from life.

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery in Aigialeia in the Achaea region of Western Greece.

Constantine XI Palaiologos ruled the Byzantine Empire for a short period between January 6, 1449 and May 29, 1453, dying in battle during the fall of Constantinople, when the capital was captured by the Ottomans. The Byzantine Empire had been steadily losing land since the 7th century and vanished entirely after the battle in 1453. The painting is the last known portrait of any Byzantine emperor created during their reign.

In the portrait, the emperor appears wearing regalia adorned with crowned double-headed eagles. These were symbols of the Palaiologos dynasty, which was the longest-ruling of the Byzantine Empire. It produced emperors and leaders for just shy of 200 years, between the 13th and 15th centuries.

He is also wearing a bejeweled crown and holding a cruciform scepter. His purple cloak would have been dyed from the liquid produced from the glands of the Bolinus brandaris sea snail, which was incredibly expensive and so was reserved for use only by royalty (said to be “born in purple”) during the Byzantine Empire. Following the fall of Constantinople, the harvesting farms of the snails were destroyed by the Ottoman Turks, but the association of purple with royalty lives on.

The fresco is believed to be the work of an artist from Mystras, a town south of the Aigialeian monastery, where a young Constantine lived and ruled for five years before his ascension to emperor. The Holy Monastery of Pammegiston Taxiarchon had once been the recipient of significant financial donations from Constantine’s brothers. It was during recent restoration of the monastery that the fresco containing the portrait of the Byzantine emperor was discovered.

The Greek Minister for Culture, Lina Mendoni, called the portrait “the only known depiction” of Constantine XI Palaiologos “created during his lifetime.” His short rule meant that few portraits of him have been discovered. Mendoni added that “the artist likely painted the emperor’s features from direct observation, rather than relying on an official imperial portrait, as was customary.”

In a statement, the Greek Ministry of Culture referenced the “authenticity” of the portrait, which “accurately renders the physiognomic features of the last Byzantine emperor.” It describes the likeness, calling the portrait a depiction of “an earthly figure, a mature man, with a delicate face and individualized features, who exudes calm and nobility.”

By Verity Babbs.