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For the week of 18 February 2019

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Aquaman #45 gives us a new creation story with Father Sea and Mother Salt. It’s interesting world-building for what’s going on on this island. Robson Rocha, Daniel Henriques, and Sunny Gho seem to level up on their art again. This book is gorgeous.

| Published by DC Comics

Avengers #15 continues the vampire civil war, with the Shadow Colonel basically kidnapping Ghost Rider. Jason Aaron is definitely taking this series in weird places, but it remains highly entertaining. Especially with collaborators like David Marquez and Erick Arciniega who deliver some incredible artwork.

| Published by Marvel

Avengers: No Road Home #2 reveals how Nyx and her family took Olympus. There’s also a neat parallel narration for Hawkeye explaining how the guy with just a bow and arrows can take on gods and monsters. The art from Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco, and Jesus Aburtov is gorgeous, they really seem to pushing themselves with their storytelling. It’s just a shame that none of the artists are credited on the cover.

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Barbarella/Dejah Thoris #2 is ridiculously impressive. Leah Williams, Germán García, Addison Duke, and Crank! are delivering an intelligent, humorous, and compelling adventure tale here that reminds me a lot of some of what Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse did in Tom Strong. It’s incredibly inventive and the artwork is amazing. Highly recommended.

| Published by Dynamite

Batman #65 gives us the penultimate chapter of “The Price”, featuring an all out battle between Flash, Gotham Girl, and Gotham. The artwork from Guillem March and Tomeu Morey is stunning, with some incredible layouts as the action continues.

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Black Widow #2 is fairly bloody and violent as Natasha racks up a body count tracking down the people running “No Restraints Play”, a site that specializes in depravity. Flaviano’s line art seems scratchier than the first issue, but it works for the violent tone of story.

| Published by Marvel

Bloodborne #9 begins the third arc, “A Song of Crows”, as Aleš Kot, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson, Aditya Bidikar, and Jim Campbell spotlight Eileen the Crow. This is a bit of return to the kind of abstract storytelling and embrace of oblique existentialism of the first arc as Eileen investigates the ritual murder of a hunter, but is confounded by time and holes in the narrative.

| Published by Titan

Catwoman #8 is ostensibly the “conclusion” to “Something Smells Fishy”, but it doesn’t actually end the story in any way and leaves the reader at a cliffhanger of continuing elements. That being said, it’s still an entertaining issue from Joëlle Jones, Elena Casagrande, Fernando Blanco, John Kalisz, and Josh Reed. Wonderful action sequences, and more questions as to the nature of a reliquary that seems to contain resurrective powers.

| Published by DC Comics

Delver #1 begins a new Comixology Original series from MK Reed, C. Spike Trotman, Clive Hawken, Maarta Laiho, and Ed Dukeshire. It’s a very intriguing and unique take on the fantasy gaming theme of a dungeon full of treasure and monsters with delvers working to plumb the depths. But it’s from the perspective of the townsfolk whose land the door to the dungeon appears in and how it changes and impacts their lives.

| Published by Iron Circus Comics

Doctor Strange #11 concludes the battle with Dormammu and the Faltine, for now at least, from Mark Waid, Jesús Saiz, Javier Pina, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Cory Petit. Some very nice art as usual from Saiz, Pina, and Rosenberg.

| Published by Marvel

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3 continues “Mother of Exiles” from Tom Taylor, Juann Cabal, Nolan Woodard, and Travis Lanham as Peter finds out a bit about the rumours regarding his neighbour and Under York, another duplicate New York City under New York City, that oddly isn’t the Monster Metropolis. Great humour from Taylor in the dialogue.

| Published by Marvel

Guardians of the Galaxy #2 takes a somewhat different approach as Peter Quill drunk dials Kitty as he tries to make sense of what’s going on with Thanos, Gamora, everyone who’s dead, and the current state of the Guardians. Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, Marte Gracia, and Cory Petit are really taking this series into interesting offbeat territory, while still delivering some excellent humour and an ominous feel to Starfox’s new band of “guardians”.

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Incursion #1 begins a new mini picking up on where the Eternal Warrior and Geomancer are since Harbinger Wars 2 and Ninja-K, and pit them against Imperatrix Virago, a cosmic villain that is devouring worlds (kind of like if Galactus were pestilence), from Andy Diggle, Alex Paknadel, Doug Braithwaite, José Villarrubia, Diego Rodriguez, and Marshall Dillon. The art is incredible, the stakes seem pretty high, and the outlook after this first issue look pretty grim for Earth.

| Published by Valiant

James Bond 007 #4 sees Stephen Mooney join Greg Pak, Tríona Farrell, and Ariana Maher for the art chores for three issues, continuing the tale of Bond and “Oddjob”’s team-up. Like Marc Laming, Mooney seems to be born to draw Bond and espionage themed stories.

| Published by Dynamite

Judge Dredd: Toxic #4 concludes what has been an excellent series dealing with xenophobia and hateful rhetoric from Paul Jenkins, Marco Castiello, Vincenzo Acunzo, Jason Millet, Shawn Lee, and Robbie Robbins. I’ve always found non 2000 AD Judge Dredd stories to be a bit of crapshoot, but IDW have been delivering well with the past two mini-series, this and Under Siege.

| Published by IDW

Justice League #18 is the latest excursion into the Legion of Doom territory from James Tynion IV, Pasqual Ferry, Hi-Fi, and Tom Napolitano. It works with some of the revelations from last issue regarding Martian Manhunter and builds a new narrative for Lionel Luthor’s past and his work with Vandal Savage. It’s interesting to see Tynion working with variations on discarded continuities in this way, building a new past that synthesizes pre-Flashpoint ideas with the current batch of backstories.

| Published by DC Comics

Middlewest #4 only seems to be getting better and better as more of this world and how it seems to work get fleshed out by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona, Jean-Francois Beaulieu, and Nate Piekos. There’s something incredibly magical and special about this series that taps into the feeling of some of the best coming-of-age fantasies as it blends Ray Bradbury, JM Barrie, and Carlo Collodi into this magical realist adventure.

| Published by Image

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #3 concludes the opening arc from Saladin Ahmed, Javier Garrón, David Curiel, and Cory Petit by adding Captain America to Miles & Rhino’s team-up. This has been a very entertaining start to the series, with a nice mix of Miles’ personal life and superheroics.

| Published by Marvel

Naomi #2 reasserts that Jamal Campbell is a powerhouse of an artist and one of the best kept secrets of the past few years who really should have a higher profile. His art is amazing. It also helps that the story he, Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker, and Carlos M. Mangual are telling is as compelling as this, as Naomi confronts Dee as she tries to learn about the day of her adoption. It’s very widescreen and epic as it hints at the broader DC Universe, but at the same time this is very deeply personal.

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Old Man Quill #2 gives the Guardians a taste of the depravity and despair that Earth has fallen to in this post-superhero world. Ethan Sacks shows there’s still a bit of humour left, though, in that Piledriver’s descendent thinks that Piledriver was one of the all-time greats. Also the art from Robert Gill and Andres Mossa gives a wonderful amount of detail to the wastelands.

| Published by Marvel

Relay #4 returns after a delay with new artist Dalibor Talajić (I believe Andy Clarke had to bow out due to illness, but I’m not 100% sure on that). Talajić’s art style is not as bright and clean as Clarke’s, giving a darker, shadowy approach that results in the bleak, horror elements of the story coming further into focus.

| Published by AfterShock

Seven to Eternity #13 returns from its own lengthy delay to conclude the arc in Skod, with the revelation of part of Adam’s choice to save the Mud King. It reiterates the theme since the beginning that there seem to be no good choices in this world, that everything tainted, despite Adam’s father believing the world black and white. While we are going into another trade break, Rick Remender, Jerome Opeña, Matt Hollingsworth, and Rus Wooton consistently make this worth the wait.

| Published by Image / Giant Generator

Sharkey: The Bounty Hunter #1 is the latest of Mark Millar’s Netflix feeder series, after The Magic Order and Prodigy, with Simone Bianchi and Peter Doherty rounding out the team. This one feels a bit like if Warren Ellis were writing Strontium Dog, and it works. The artwork from Bianchi is worth it on its own. Gorgeous character designs.

| Published by Image

Venom #11 is another holy crap issue from Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, Joshua Cassara, JP Mayer, Frank Martin, and Clayton Cowles. There are some really big revelations about Eddie and his family that really need to be read firsthand. Amazing work.

| Published by Marvel

X-O Manowar #24 reminds us again just how good of an artist and storyteller Tomás Giorello is. The action sequences and battle between Aric and Hesnid is incredible, with fairly inventive layouts that just elevate the overall impact of the pages. Giorello and Diego Rodriguez really make this something joyous to behold.

| Published by Valiant

Other Highlights: American Carnage #4, Bitter Root #4, Black Badge #7, The Black Order #4, Breakneck #3, Coda #9, Death Orb #5, DuckTales #18, East of West #41, Evolution #14, Exorsisters #5, Go Bots #4, Grumble #4, High Level #1, Hot Lunch Special #5, Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter #2, Jim Henson’s Beneath the Dark Crystal #5, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Discovery Adventure, Jughead: The Hunger #12, Lightstep #4, The Lone Ranger #5, Lucifer #5, Lumberjanes #59, Mars Attacks #5, Monstress #20, Outpost Zero #7, Rainbow Brite #4, Shuri #5, Solo: A Star Wars Story #5, Star Wars Adventures #18, Starcraft: Soldiers #2, Stronghold #1, Sukeban Turbo #4, Superb #17, TMNT: Urban Legends #10, Teen Titans #27, Turok #2, The Unstoppable Wasp #5, The Witcher: Of Flesh and Flame #3

Recommended Collections: Amazing Spider-Man - Volume 2: Friends & Foes, Bedtime Games, The Beauty - Volume 5, Black Lightning: Brick City Blues, Captain America - Volume 1: Winter in America, Days of Hate - Volume 2, High Crimes, Infinity 8 - Volume 3: The Gospel According to Emma, Old Man Hawkeye - Volume 2: The Whole World Blind, The Punisher - Volume 1: World War Frank, West Coast Avengers - Volume 1: Best Coast

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Russia and plague

The Russian Church during the epidemic: a historical outline

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The article by Priest Iliya Pismenyuk, a lecturer at the Department of Church History of the Moscow Theological Academy , a cleric of the Church of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in Moscow, Priest Ilya Pismenyuk, describes the epidemics that took place in Russia and the quarantine measures related to them that extended to the Russian Orthodox Church.

In connection with the spread of coronavirus infection in 2020 by the Hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, a number of measures were introduced to counteract the threat of infection of the population, as well as the call of the Holy Patriarch to believers to temporarily refrain from visiting churches was voiced.

These measures may seem new to a modern person from a developed country, accustomed to the fact that most contagious diseases are under the control of the health care system. However, for our ancestors in Russia and the Russian Empire, the epidemics were quite regular and truly terrible scourge, which gradually led to the development of both epidemiological science and quarantine measures, many of which, albeit in a slightly changed form, remain relevant to this day. day. These measures could not circumvent the order of church life, coupled with the presence in the temple space of a large number of people, as well as personal interaction between the shepherd and the spiritual child. In this article, which is only a brief outline of the history of the issue, we will try to draw attention to specific events of the past, when the church and civic leaders jointly tried to stop the spread of dangerous diseases.Russia before 1800’sIn the pre-Petrine period, medicine and, especially, epidemiological representations in Russia were rather poorly developed. The main form of healing in the public was healers, foreign doctors appeared only at the royal courts. The most dangerous diseases, such as the plague, have long been perceived by the population not as a contagious infection, but “in the form of heavenly punishment for the sins of the people” 1 . It got to the point that in the chronicle descriptions of the epidemics, which, it is worth noting, were made with amazing scrupulousness, you can find treatment as an attempt to counter God’s will 2 . In turn, the latter led to the fact that Christian Sacraments and rituals were perceived not so much as a healing of the soul, but as the main or even the only form of bodily healing. Here it is worth paying attention to the fact that for the Christian tradition of the past and the present, the spiritual perception of the disease and the connection between the soul and body of a person is quite natural and correct. However, the latter does not negate the need for treatment, entrusting oneself with the grace of God, as well as discovering the natural causes of diseases and their infectivity. Therefore, our ancestors could not ignore the facts that they had to deal with, and first of all, the contagiousness of the disease from person to person, from village to village, etc. In turn, this reinforced the view of the infectious nature of many diseases and laid the foundation for quarantine measures, which in the XV-XVI centuries. more and more consistently begin to be introduced into public life 3 .Mentions about the prevention of diseases in Russia can be found in the previously mentioned centuries. For example:In the annals of the plague of 1092 it says that “don’t people dare to come out of homes” This is indicated in the annals and during the plague of 1128 in Novgorod 4 . In the XV century. when the plague spreads, the first measure appears that indirectly affects the Church, namely, a ban on the funeral of a deceased from an illness in church cemeteries in the city’s fence. 5 This measure caused opposition from the population, as “In the eyes of an Orthodox person of that time, being buried outside a church cemetery meant the impossibility of getting into a really better world after death” 6 . Relatives of the deceased tried with all their might to circumvent this ban up to the concealment of the fact of the disease. Another way to stop the spread of infection in the XV century was the setting of outposts on roads that prevented sick people from crossing established quarantine borders 7 .In the 16th century, quarantine measures began to include a ban on leaving the house in which the sick person was at the time of the epidemic. This had a flip side, namely in the 16th century. there are references to the prohibition of priests during the “pestilence” to come to a sick person 8 . The first mention of this prohibition is in the correspondence of the Pskov diacon Munekhin and the elder Filofei from Eliazarov monastery, dating between 1510 and 1519. In particular, the elder writes to the clerk: “… now you are to block the way, you are to seal houses, you are forbidden to come to sick people, you will remove dead bodies far from the city” 9 . [ht] («…Вы ныне пути заграждаете, домы печатлеете, попом запрещаете к болящим приходити, мертвых телеса далеко от града измещете»9.)During the Novgorod plague of 1572, a severe ban was completely made, according to which a priest who violated the prohibition of confessing sick people should have been burned as a punishment [ht] (!): “… on the month of October 29, on Monday, in Novgorod, people that are marked with a flag as deadly infected, should not be buried on church cemeteries, but be taken outside the city of Novgorod (…) homes with sick people were locked and the food was passed on to them from the street, and the spiritual fathers are not permitted to hear their confessions, neither the boyars (nobles), and if they did, they are to be burned with those sick” 10 [ht]. [«…Месяца октября 29, в понедельник, в Новегороде которые люди есть на них знамя смертоносное, у церквей погребати не велели, и велели их из Новагорода выносити вон за город (…) в которой улице человек умрет знаменем и те дворы запирали и людьми и кормили тех людей улицею, и отцом духовным покаивати тех людей знаменных не велели, а учнет который священник тех людей каяти, бояр не доложа, ино тех священников велели жещи с теми же людми з больными»10]It is clear that this terrible measure adopted by the Orthodox Novgorodians was nevertheless the result of despair, although the morals of the population of that time often left much to be desired. On the other hand, the burning of a person who violated the quarantine or attempted to illegally cross the quarantine outpost was previously used as a punitive measure in the history of the fight against epidemics. Chronicles only say that, for some reason, in Novgorod this measure was extended to priests.In principle, already in the XV-XVI centuries. it is possible to detect a twofold relationship to epidemics. On the one hand, “the severity of punishment for quarantine violation did not stop even before the Chalice with the Gifts”, on the other hand, the traditional way of life often led to the fact that during epidemics “it was freely allowed to generalize for religious processions, prayers and other church services, as a result of which the infection spread with increased speed ” 11 .The spiritual causes of diseases were also graded in two opposite positions: “God’s punishment for sins” or evil eye, magic and other actions of evil power.A turning point in the views on the origin of the “pestilence” occurred approximately in the middle of the 17th century after the terrible plague in Moscow in 1654-1655. The number of victims during this epidemic was so great that there were no people left to keep special guards who did not allow the infection to spread outside the city. Information about how things were with the churches during this plague is rather stingy, but sad: “After the death of priests, almost all churches stood without service and people died without communion.” 12 Only after the end of this scourge the anti-epidemic measures in the Russian state began to receive systemic development 13 .Plague in Moscow 1770-1772The emergence of domestic epidemiological science was associated with one of the most terrible outbreaks of plague in Russian history that occurred in 1770-1772. The plague penetrated the country in 1769 from Turkey, with which there was another war in those days. Despite the news that the disease was approaching the city, the Moscow administration and medical officials showed negligence, because of which “the time for anti-epidemic measures was irretrievably lost and the epidemic began to take on an unprecedented scale” 14 .When the disease already spread to Moscow in 1771, the State Council, by personal decree of Catherine II, compiled a list of preventive measures to prevent the spread of the disease into St. Petersburg and other cities of the empire. A separate paragraph dealt with the Church: “The Moscow bishop was charged with the obligation to instruct the churches to compose prayers compiled by the Synod, as well as the manifesto on an adherent disease and the points attached by the Senate which should be taken with caution.” The State Council, however, attached prayers to prayers not so much religious as sanitary-educational significance: “So that the people would be most wary of danger.” The same order was given by the Vladimir, Pereslavl, Tver and Krutitsk dioceses 15 .In Moscow itself, meanwhile, in a number of monasteries (Nikolo-Ugreshsky, Simonov and Danilov), plague hospitals were established. Archbishop Ambrose of Moscow took a number of measures against the spread of the infection: “Archbishop Ambrose ordered the priests, when confessing and receiving communion, to perform these sacraments through doors or windows, without touching the sick; when baptizing children, do not pick them up; do not do burial the dead from the plague, but send them directly to the cemetery. ” 16 Unfortunately, despite all the measures taken, “the people continued to disbelieve the danger, and, according to the previous opinion of some doctors, considered the disease not contagious” 17 . Even more, the mob rebelled after the Church, following the city authorities, took quarantine measures. As often happens during disaster days, various “prophets” appeared among the people, who through their sermons strengthened the panic mood and fear of the superstitious crowd. 18One factory worker began to tell the people about the alleged occurrence of the Virgin Mary that told him that the three-month pestilence was a punishment for disregarding the Bogolyubsky image of the Blessed Virgin, hanging at the Barbarian Gate. After that, a huge crowd of people began to gather at the icon and perform prayer songs there, which contributed to the spread of infection 19 . After prayers, the people made generous donations for the Virgin. Realizing that this spiritual temptation would only aggravate the sanitary situation, Vladyka Ambrose “wanted to order the image to be transferred to the nearest church of Kir-John, but not daring to do so, they limited themselves to ordering them to take the money collected and use it for a charitable cause.” 20When the guard with officials approached the icon of the Virgin Mary on September 15, the alarm was struck, and the crowd, persuaded by evil people, began a riot. The first goal of the rebels was Archbishop Ambrose himself. On the first day, the rebels plundered the Miracles Monastery, and did not stop and scolded the church and altars, but Vladyka managed to hide in the Donskoy Monastery. The next day, a drunken crowd broke into this monastery, where they killed the unfortunate bishop, after which she rushed to break down the quarantine barriers and catch the hated doctors. 21 Only decisive action taken in the coming days Eropkin, who had custody of the city during the plague infection, was allowed to suppress the “plague riot.”The sad events mentioned above clearly demonstrated to the government that it is necessary to actively involve the Church in order to influence the minds and lifestyle of ordinary Muscovites. At the end of September 1771 P.D. Eropkin ordered to print 200 copies of the instructions made by the doctors on the fight against plague for distribution among the parishioners, as “The common people are more obedient to the priests than others, which is very laudable.” In addition, the Synod ordered the clergy to read the instructions against the “pestilence” before the Divine Liturgy. Starting next month, these instructions began to be read in all the churches and monasteries of the city twice a day: before and after the Liturgy 22 .A special role in the final victory over the plague in Moscow was played by the doctor D.S. Samoilovich, who, despite his young age (27 years), showed exceptional abilities: “D.S. Samoilovich was convinced that the success of the elimination of the epidemic was based on strict isolation from healthy people of the sick and dying, as well as those who had any contact with the sick. ” 23Plague in Tiflis 1811In 1811, a plague appeared in Tiflis (Georgia), where it was most likely brought by soldiers returning from under Akhaltsikhe. In the Caucasus, when dangerous diseases appeared, it was traditional to leave cities and leave for the surrounding areas or on a hill, which was done by about 10 thousand people. Almost all public institutions of the city were closed, and churches were turned into warehouses for household property and goods of people who left the city.In October of that year, on the occasion of the approaching winter and economic decline, it was necessary to allow residents of the city to return to their homes. To do this, the Commander-in-Chief in Georgia, Marquis Philippe Osipovich Paulucci, on October 12 ordered a series of quarantine measures, including a temporary ban on gathering in churches: “All gatherings in churches and bathhouses should be banned for the time needed to cleanse the city” 24 .The mentioned restrictions were lifted only almost two months later. On December 3, the Committee on the Preservation of the Health of Residents decided to open those temples in which no goods remained. Nevertheless, even in open churches, safeguards remained: do not squeeze, stand at a distance from each other, use disinfectants. Let’s give a verbatim order made: “… to the church, in which there is no goods, to unlock for worship and during that time to gather there people without burkas and not to be crowded, but they should stand apart from each other, and the church elder should receive all alms vinegar ” 25 .Plague in Odessa 1812The following year, the plague came to Odessa. The mayor of the city at that time was Duke Arman Emmanuel du Plessis Richelieu – a Frenchman in the service of the Russian crown. With the spread of the disease, Richelieu created a special Committee, which included both members of the administration and representatives of citizens in order to jointly counter the disease. At the same time, the Council of Odessa Doctors ordered to close all meeting places of people, including churches 26 .Cholera 1830-1833About cholera that befell Russia in 1830-1833 and the role that the Russian Church played in the fight against it, a lot is known from the acts of the Moscow Metropolitan and St. Philaret (Drozdov). Therefore, in this essay an attempt will be made to draw attention to other aspects of the issue.Initially, I would like to note that cholera was a new disease for the Russian Empire. The first decades after the onset of cholera epidemics in Russia, five of which in the XIX century. covered the whole country, there was a lot of debate about the contagiousness of this disease. In any case, at the first stage, cholera was considered non-contagious, which led to significant casualties 27 .In August 1829, after the caravan of Bukhara merchants arrived in Orenburg, the second large-scale cholera epidemic began. His Grace Arkady, in connection with the spread of the disease, stopped studying at the Orenburg seminary and the work of the spiritual consistory (diocesan administration). At the same time, Vladyka attracted the clergy to educate parishioners and the local population about the need to comply with sanitary measures. Also, the clergy were to report on the places where epidemics were detected 28 . When cholera spread in Ufa, Bishop Arkady ordered that hieromonk Levky and the clerk Alekseev, who go to church daily, go to the wards and support spiritually ill people, settle in the city hospital.Opinions about the imaginary nature of the disease, its artificiality (poison) and other superstitious views began to spread among the people, which required expanding the ways of enlightening the Church: “Parish priests again, in addition to their direct responsibility to admonish the sick, were obligated to speak the relevant teachings in the church, as equally, and in all possible cases, to reveal to the people the falsity of superstitious views on cholera, which is supposedly given by doctors ” 30 .In Kazan, St. Filaret (Amphitheaters) also ordered to stop training at the seminary, and he locked himself in the Voskresensky monastery, where he performed daily services: “Seeing the imminent danger for Kazan, I ordered the seminarians to be sent home, who had arrived from the vaccination — and I had delayed the arrival of those who had not arrived. have a good time ” 31 .Further advancement of the disease inland led to measures of a national nature, among which a separate place was given to the Russian Church. On September 15, 1830, by decree of Emperor Nicholas I, the Most Holy Governing Synod made a decree “On the universal performance of liturgies for the deliverance from cholera” 32 . This prayer service was compiled by His Grace Filaret, Archbishop of Kazan, and a separate synodal order of September 19 was printed and sent to the diocese in which the disease was raging. 33However, on September 18, a new order was issued, which clarified the procedure for performing prayers, taking into account the epidemiological situation. According to him, the prayer follow-up “was not otherwise accomplished (…), as according to the preliminary intercourse of the Diocesan Bishops with the local civil authorities, so that the latter could take for its part all necessary precautionary measures in this case, to avert the harmful consequences that could occur when confluence in churches of the people from people infected with cholera. ” That is, the organization of the service was to be decided jointly by secular and ecclesiastical authorities to exclude the possibility of the spread of the disease among believers 34 .There is evidence of how in practice the above regulations were applied locally. For example, in the Tula province, as in other areas of the empire during the cholera epidemic, one of the primary measures was to limit the number of public contacts. In this regard, it was decided, according to the decree of the Holy Synod, to reduce the obligatory prayers against cholera, and when committed, they should be allowed to attend them only by church officials and senior officials: “It was for this reason that the prayer written by Archbishop Filaret to avert cholera was accepted participation only church officials and senior officials ” 35 .In the next 1831, the Holy Synod himself ordered that prayers against cholera be performed outdoors during the Kursk Root Fair and with “some precautions” 36 . However, the panic of the population, faced with a huge number of victims of cholera, forced the Holy Synod to make a separate decree on August 19, commanding the clergy to preach to stop the riots, declare the real danger of cholera, refute ridiculous rumors and persuade to obey medical instructions 37 .Plague in Odessa 1837One of the last major outbreaks of plague in the XIX century. occurred in Odessa in 1837. Odessa, like many other port and border cities, by that time already had a relatively built quarantine system. No less, and maybe even a key role was also played by the fact that the Governor-General of the city, Count M.S. Vorontsov had previously encountered plague outbreaks and had a good idea of both their danger and the measures that needed to be taken under the prevailing conditions. Therefore, the very next day after medical workers reported the dangers of spreading the plague, Odessa was locked away from the rest of Russia, and Count Vorontsov urgently took the most decisive actions to fight the infection, including a ban on numerous gatherings of the people, including Christian worship: “Theaters, all educational institutions, churches, public places, drinking houses and all shops except for those who sold food were immediately closed.” 38October 27, a plague was discovered at the daughter of a priest of the Intercession Church of Alexandra. The next day, Alexandra’s grandmother, Daria Sapozhnikova, also fell ill. This circumstance had a key influence on the decision to close the city churches: “Count M.S. Vorontsov still hesitated to give his opinion on such an important subject, and still hoped that, with some caution, it would be possible to allow worship; but the last incident and the apprehension that arose between many persons of the clergy convinced him of the need for strict measures. ” 39 In this regard, Count Vorontsov requested the archbishop of Kherson and Tauride Gabriel “to immediately close all the churches in the city and stop the service” 40 . The Archbishop was sympathetic to the request of the Governor General, having issued a very warm lecture on this subject for the flock and prescribed special rules of conduct for the clergy during the epidemic 41 .By agreement between Count Vorontsov and Archbishop Gabriel, a special mobile church was established at the Transfiguration Cathedral, in which it was possible, if urgently needed, to proceed to the sacraments and demands. However, this relief was fraught with certain precautions: “Those leaving for this purpose (participation in the Sacrament or treba – approx. Author ) did not come from the house in a crowd, but in a limited number, having previously notified the commissioners who could attest about the doubtfulness of their situation ” 42 .The service was resumed two months later, on December 9 of the same year, and only in unconnected churches, i.e. in those temples where no plague disease was found. However, by order of the city and church authorities, precautionary measures were introduced:Pre-verified the space and capacity of the temples.In accordance with paragraph 1, the police allowed only a certain number of worshipers into the temples.To listen to the Liturgy was possible only without touching each other.The priest blessed the people from afar and did not allow the kissing of the cross and the gospel.At the time, the bell ringing was canceled 43 .The measures applied by Vorontsov in Odessa might seem excessive, but it was thanks to them that “not only was it possible to prevent the plague from Odessa, but in December it stopped in the city itself (…) but out of 60,000 inhabitants only 108 died” 44 .Plague in Akhaltsikhe 1838In the same year as in Odessa, a plague for independent reasons also appeared in Georgia. In the summer of 1838 it spread to Akhaltsikhe. The Tiflis military governor instructed the “Committee on the Prevention of the Transcaucasian Territory from Plague Infection”, as well as local authorities to take measures against the further development of the disease. Among the latter there was also the closure of churches: “Churches, bathhouses and“ all public places ”were closed, all kinds of gatherings were banned.” 45 The cordon of the city was removed only in December of that year.* * *The result of the ongoing development of epidemiology and improvement of the practice of applying quarantine measures was the appearance in the 19th century. special normative acts – quarantine charters. By the middle of the century, a clause (No. 1378) was added to the section on private measures cited “for guidance in contaminated places, generally and mainly in cities”, which made it possible to prohibit public gatherings, including worship: “When the plague occurs, all places of public assembly, not excluding public places, schools and all such institutions, at the discretion of the main local authorities, are closed. (…) services during an observation or during quarantine, and sometimes without quarantine, at the discretion of the main local authorities, are closed and again, at the discretion of this, with some precautions allowed; in particular, it should be observed that those who come to the hearing of worship avoid any communication between themselves ” 46 .As shown above, the Russian Orthodox Church was gradually included in general quarantine measures as epidemiological science developed and the belief that diseases were contagious and could seriously harm the Russian population.Unfortunately, in the middle of the XIX century. and even at the beginning of the 20th century, skepticism about illnesses remained among some residents of the country. Despite the explicit instructions of doctors that mass religious events during epidemics can contribute to the spread of infection, some of the population even at the end of the XIX century. still looked at illnesses solely from the point of view of the punishment of God, opposing any therapeutic and epidemiological measures. For example, in Orenburg in the middle of the XIX century. and even at the beginning of the 20th century, some residents considered drugs to be “filthy and unclean,” and in the midst of epidemics, physicians were hostile 47 . As for the vaccination against smallpox that appeared at that time, which saved thousands of people from ugliness and death, there is evidence of a related superstitious fear: “… smallpox is vaccinated almost by force, it is called the anti-Christ seal”; the population even learned “to soon, upon inculcation, suck out the matter, or wash it off in the bathhouse” 48 .Nevertheless, the Hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church and its clergy everywhere played a crucial role in the medical and epidemiological education of the common people, which saved thousands of human lives, although they occasionally encountered resistance, the cause of which was not so much maliciousness, but rather poor education and the spread of superstitious ideas among the peasantry. Despite all the difficulties, the Russian Church shared with her flock the trials that fell to her lot, tried to alleviate the suffering of the sick and support the measures used to defeat the terrible epidemics.

1 Markovnikov V. The appearance of the plague in Russia and the means to protect itself from it, with a brief indication of the methods of disinfection (disinfection). M. 1879. S. 5; Novgorod 3rd chronicle. PSRL. T. III. SPb. 1841.S. 223.

2 Bear A.N. Disease and patients in Ancient Russia: from “rudemet” to “dohtura”. A view from the perspective of historical anthropology. SPb. 2017.S. 53.

3 Lakhtin M. Fighting epidemics in pre-Petrine Rus. M. 1909.P. 8.

4 Supotnitsky M.V., Supotnitskaya N.S. Essays on the history of the plague: in 2 books. Prince 1: Plague of pre-bacteriological period. M. 2006.S. 74.

5 Bear A.N. Disease and patients in Ancient Russia: from “rudemet” to “dohtura”. A view from the perspective of historical anthropology. SPb. 2017.S. 56.

6 Ibid. S. 65.

7 Vasiliev K.G., Segal A.E. The history of epidemics in Russia. M. 1960.S. 47-48.

8 Ibid. S. 49.

9 Addition to Historical Acts. T. I. St. Petersburg. 1846.S. 20.

10 Novgorod 3rd chronicle. PSRL. T. III. SPb. 1841.S. 169.

11 Novombergsiy N. Fundamentals of the fight against epidemics in pre-Petrine Russia. SPB 1906.P. 3.

12 Markovnikov V. The appearance of the plague in Russia and the means to protect itself from it, with a brief indication of the methods of disinfection (disinfection). M. 1879.S. 5.

13 Vasiliev K.G. Segal A.E. The history of epidemics in Russia. M. 1960.S. 65.

14 Paleev F.N. Onoprienko G.A. Molochkov A.V. The epidemic of the plague of the XVIII century and the development of health care in Moscow // Almanac of clinical medicine. M. 2015. March, 37.S. 7.

15 Vasiliev K.G. Segal A.E. The history of epidemics in Russia. M. 1960.S. 135.

16 Markovnikov V. The appearance of the plague in Russia and the means to protect itself from it, with a brief indication of the methods of disinfection (disinfection). M. 1879.S. 16.

17 Ibid. S. 12-13.

18 Ibid. S. 16.

19 Simonenko V.B., Abashin V.G., Dulin P.A. The epidemic of plague in Moscow (1770-1772) // Klin. honey. 2018.96 (1): S. 88-94.

20 Markovnikov V. The appearance of the plague in Russia and the means to protect itself from it, with a brief indication of the methods of disinfection (disinfection). M. 1879.S. 17.

21 Ibid.

22 Sirotkin A.S. Plague in Moscow in 1770-1772 and sanitary measures of the government and Moscow authorities. Bulletin of the Russian State Humanitarian University. Series: Literary Studies. Linguistics. Culturology. M. 2014.S. 137-138.

23 Paleev F.N., Onoprienko G.A., Molochkov A.V. The epidemic of the plague of the XVIII century and the development of health care in Moscow // Almanac of clinical medicine. M. 2015. March, 37.S. 7.

24 Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission. Volume 5. Tiflis. 1873.S. 30.

25 Ibid. S. 34.

26 Supotnitsky M.V., Supotnitskaya N.S. Essays on the history of the plague: in 2 books. Prince 1: Plague of pre-bacteriological period. M. 2006.S. 351.

27 Vasiliev K.G., Segal A.E. The history of epidemics in Russia. M. 1960.S. 251.

28 Chernavsky N. Orenburg diocese in the past and present. Second release. Proceedings of the Orenburg Scientific Archival Commission. Vol. X. Orenburg. 1901-1902. S. 323-324.

29 Popov A.V. Cholera 1829–1833 in the Orenburg region // Tr. Orenb. scientists archive. commission. Vol. 21. Orenburg. 1910.S. 244.

30 Chernavsky N. Orenburg diocese in its past and present. Second release. Proceedings of the Orenburg Scientific Archival Commission. Vol. X. Orenburg. 1901-1902. S. 324.

31 Letters from His Eminence Filaret, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia, to Cyril, Archbishop of Podolsky. Materials for the History of the Russian Church. Kazan. 1876.S. 46; De Poule M.F. Father and son. The experience of cultural and biographical chronicles // Russian Bulletin. T. 118. No. 7-8. S. 601.

32 Complete collection of decrees and orders for the Department of Orthodox Confession of the Russian Empire. The reign of Emperor Nicholas I. Volume 1. 1825-1835. SPb. 1915.S. 459.

33 Ibid. S. 460.

34 Ibid. S. 460-461.

35 Baibakova A.I. The cholera epidemic in the Tula province in 1830-1831. // Tula local history almanac. Vol. No. 15. Tula. 2018.S. 79.

36 Complete collection of decrees and orders for the Department of Orthodox Confession of the Russian Empire. The reign of Emperor Nicholas I. Volume 1. 1825-1835. SPb. 1915.S. 526.

37 Ibid. S. 534-535.

38 Markovnikov V. The appearance of the plague in Russia and the means to protect itself from it, with a brief indication of the methods of disinfection (disinfection). M. 1879. S. 20-21; On the closure of churches, see also: Andreevsky E. About the plague that befell Odessa in 1837. Odessa. 1838.S. 15; Vasiliev K.G., Segal A.E. The history of epidemics in Russia. M. 1960.S. 238.

39 Andreevsky E. On the plague that befell Odessa in 1837. Odessa. 1838.S. 22-23.

40 Supotnitsky M.V., Supotnitskaya N.S. Essays on the history of the plague: in 2 books. Prince 1: Plague of pre-bacteriological period. M. 2006.S. 375.

41 Ibid.

42 Andreevsky E. On the plague that befell Odessa in 1837. Odessa. 1838.S. 22-23.

43 Andreevsky E. On the plague that befell Odessa in 1837. Odessa. 1838. S. 62; Supotnitsky M.V., Supotnitskaya N.S. Essays on the history of the plague: in 2 books. Prince 1: Plague of pre-bacteriological period. M. 2006.S. 378.

44 Markovnikov V. The appearance of the plague in Russia and the means to protect itself from it, with a brief indication of the methods of disinfection (disinfection). M. 1879.S. 22.

45 Supotnitsky M.V., Supotnitskaya N.S. Essays on the history of the plague: in 2 books. Prince 1: Plague of pre-bacteriological period. M. 2006.S. 383.

46 Charter on quarantines (drawn up according to the Code of Laws ed. 1857 and the Continuation of 1876). M. 1879. S. 42 .; Code of laws of the Russian Empire. T. 13. Charters on national food, public charity and medical. SPb. 1857.S. 235.

47 Popov A.V. Cholera 1829-1833 in the Orenburg region // Tr. Orenb. scientists archive. commission. Vol. 21. Orenburg. 1910.S. 56-57.

48 Ibid. S. 58.

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1. What is Rudram ?

Śrī Rudram, also known as Śrī Rudrapraśnaḥ, is a hymn offered to the all pervading Brahman, designated as Rudra-Śiva, present in auspicious, benign forms as well as terrible forms which He assumes at the time of the dissolution and the destruction of the cosmos. It occurs in the Taittirīya Saṁhitā of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda in the 4th kāṇda (chapter), 5th praśna (topic) and it is considered as one of 108 Upaniṣads. It is also known as Namakam because of the repeated word namaḥ in it.

Śrī Rudram is divided into 11 anuvākas (passages) and consists of 37 ṛks (verses) in various Vedic chandas (meters) in anuvāka 1, 10 and 11. Anuvākas 2 to 9 and the last line of anuvāka 11 consist of 130 yajus (sacrificial formulas).

2. Who is Rudra ?

Rudra is a mythological god of the Vedic Aryans. He finds mention in the Rig Veda but there is a detailed section in praise of Rudra in the Yajur Veda. Rudra has two forms, ghora or terrible form and śiva or auspicious form. Hence Rudra is one side and Śiva the other side of the same coin. They are not two, but one. The Brāhmaṇa text which interprets the Rudram states: “Rudra is verily this fire. He has two forms; one terrible, the other auspicious. If a man does sacrifice to Him by chanting the Rudram, that man pacifies the terrible form”.

The word Rudra has 4 root meanings: (a) dreadful, terrific, angry; (b) great or large; (c) driving away evil; (d) fit to be praised. Another explanation derived from the meaning of its roots is also; “ru”, to cry or to teach, “rud”, to make a person weep, and “dra” to flow. HenceRudra is considered as a deity who teaches the supreme knowledge to all and whose energy flows in everything

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3. What is the significance of Sri Rudram ?

The purpose of this magnificent hymn is to set aside once and for all, the extra-cosmic notion of God that people sometimes entertain in their religious fervour, and to instil into the minds of people the greater, profounder knowledge of the fact that God is not merely the creative extra-cosmic Parent of the Universe, but He is also immanent in every particle, in every speck of space, in every unit of time, in every nook and corner, in every particle of creation.

A very intriguing aspect of God present in this wondrous hymn is that God is existing in both the aspects; the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the right and the wrong, the positive and the negative, the high and the low, the conceivable and the inconceivable, mortality and immortality, existence and non-existence.

It is considered as the only hymn of its kind in the religious literature of the entire world which focuses on the idea of God, not only associated with the ideas of pleasant and good, but also with the idea of dreadful and destructive; that the God permeates everything in manifestation, including aspects deemed not ethical by the purists and fault-finders.

4. Why Chant Rudram ?

It is said: “By reciting Veda once, he becomes pure on that day, but by reciting Rudram the very next moment he gets purified.” Yet another verse declares: “Where a devout reciter of the Rudram lives, be it in a village or town, that place will be free from disease, drought, thefts, and other ills.”

Śiva Purāṇa further explains: “By chanting Rudram, one gains both worldly pleasures and liberation.” The Jābāla Upaniṣad5 states: “Once the students of sacred knowledge asked sage Yājñavalkya: Can we gain eternal life by repetition of mantras? Yājñavalkya said: By the repetition of śatarudrīya6 a man becomes immortal, for the names of God therein are nectarine.” Kaivalya Upaniṣad7 also declares: “Whoever reads śatarudrīya becomes pure as fire, becomes pure as air”.

5. What is Chamakam ?

Chamakam, occurs in the Taittirīya Saṁhitā of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda in the 4th kāṇda, 7th praśna. It is so called on account of the recurrence of the word ca me directly translated as “and me”. After praying and identifying Rudra with everything in the Namakam, Camakam is usually recited immediately after, in which the devotee asks Him to give him everything, 347 things to be precise, coupled with the article ca (and) and the verb me kalpatām (be granted unto me). Camakam furnishes completely the idea of human happiness and defines in the highest degree the desires to be asked or to be granted. Camakam roots are firmly implanted in the worldly desires ultimately leading to the divine fulfilment

6. How much time does it take to Chant the Rudram ? And why are there 11 priests involved in the chanting ?

The typical time to chant the Sri Rudram (both Namakam and Chamakam) is about 40 mins.

Rudram is the most sacred means of worshipping Lord Siva. Sage Satapatha in his treatise “Maharnava Karma Vipaka” listed 4 types of procedures to propitiate Lord Siva, Ekadasa Rudram, Maha Rudram and Athi Rudram; each has greater significance than its preceding one. ‘Athi’ means “ultimate”. Therefore, Athirudram is the highest form of worship of Lord Shiva. Athirudram is a destroyer of all sorrows and the provider of ‘Kshema’.

The Sri Rudram has 11 anuvakas of Namakam and 11 anuvakas of Chamakam. After Each chanting of One round of Rudram one Anuvaka Each of Chamakam is chanted. Eleven recitations of Rudram followed by one recitation of Chamakam is called Ekadasa Rudram. This constitutes one unit of Rudra Homam. Eleven rounds of Ekadasa Rudram makes one Laghu Rudram. Eleven Laghu Rudra chartings make one Maharudram and eleven Maharudram recitations is the Athirudram. In a “AtiRudram yagna” Everyday One Maharudram is completed and in eleven days an Athirudra Mahayagnam is completed. Thus in the Athirudra Mahayagnam, the Srirudram hymn is chanted in all 14,641 times by 121 Ritwiks in 11 days with the performance of 1331 rudra Homams simultaneously.

The number 11 has a big significance in propitiating Lord Siva. The 11 priests are involved/required in the chanting to meet the specific number of recitations prescribed by the procedures.

7. Why is Rudram Chanted at Sathabhishekam functions ?

Man, according to Vedaantha and Yoga philosophies, is charged with a spark of the universal soul. Therefore, such functions are conducted to worship the atman residing in him so that he can unite with it ultimately. This uniting with the “Atman” is the sole purpose of human life and confers on the devotee the highest boon of immortality, i.e. liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Lord Shiva who is easy to please is also the embodiment of time and Rudram is chanted as an expression of gratitude for the long life granted and also to seek the ultimate boon of immortality.

8. What is the benefit of listening to Rudram Chamakam ?

A devout listener and seeker of Rudram Chamakam is blessed with both worldly and spiritual benefits such as good health, peace of mind and pure joy. Slowly and steadily it draws the listener to spirituality in the quest of the truth behind human existence.

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Japan gaming: More virtual than reality?

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Andrew House, the top of Sony’s Video games division, says large Japanese publishers have gravitated towards VR extra quickly than their western opposite numbers. “There may be a broader amusement interest in VR in Japan that may additionally facilitate the japanese publishers delivering extra quickly on this medium than possibly some place else,” he says. One massive mission with VR is to discover a way to save you players feeling unwell or bowled over By way of the shiny photos © Bloomberg

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