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  Chapter 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The archimandrite of the Transfiguration Monastery of Kazan', 60 rubles; the cellarer, 40 rubles; the treasurer, 30 rubles; the cathedral elders, 15 rubles apiece.
The archimandrite of the Epiphany Monastery of Rostov, 40 rubles; the cellarer, 20 rubles; the treasurer, 15 rubles; the cathedral elders, 10 rubles apiece.
The hegumen of the Epiphany Monastery of Kostroma, 40 rubles; the cellarer, 20 rubles; the treasurer, 15 rubles; the cathedral elders, 10 rubles apiece.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Epiphany Monastery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1680-1687, the Epiphany monastery was home to a school of the Likhud brothers, which would later be transferred to the Zaikonospassky monastery and transformed into the famous Slavic Greek Latin Academy.
The now-existing Epiphany cathedral was consecrated in 1696.
In 1788, the Epiphany monastery was proclaimed a residence of the vicarian bishop of the Moscow bishopric.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Epiphany_Monastery   (511 words)

  
 Kostroma. Tour to Kostroma, Russia
The crowning glory of the Ipatiev Monastery ensemble is the five-dome Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
The Epiphany Monastery (founded in the first quarter of the XV century), residence of the present Archbishop of Kostroma, is in the center of the city and accommodates a seminary, workshops for making church clothes, icons, as well as a printing house for publishing a newspaper.
Exhibitions housed in the Ipatiev monastery include the "Sacristy of the Trinity Cathedral" (donations of boyar and tsar families), "History of the Kostroma Region from Ancient Times to the End of the XIX Century", "Church Antiquities of the XIV-XIX centuries", "The Boyars Romanos` Chambers", "Natural History of the Kostroma Region".
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 Athena Review, 3,4: Excavations in Moscow Monasteries
In rare cases, when a monastery was to be used for military purposes, an additional fortified gate was erected in front of the “Holy Gate,” and additional platforms for cannons were constructed on the walls and towers.
The monasteries appeared as soon as the territories were settled, as witnessed by the map of the early 15th century.
Monasteries built like mighty fortresses appeared in the 16th and 17th centuries, when wooden fences were gradually replaced by brick walls with towers.
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 Small Towns of Russia > Small Towns > Soligalich
The prince generously presented the grounds to the monastery, and gave two third of the lake Chudskoje (Chuhklomskoje) and a quarter of Galichskoje lake in monastery usage, and he permitted fishing in all rivers.
The monastery cells and the fencing are not survived, only the century-old birches surround the place of the former monastery.
Near the Voskresensky monastery closer to the trading square the temples of the Rozhdestvensky nunnery began to be under construction in 1668, and in 1805 the construction was terminated.
www.towns.ru /towns/soligalich_e.html   (1468 words)

  
 Consistency List - CHURCHES (Soloviev)
Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra - Kiev monastery of the Caves 24
Nativity of the Virgin monastery (Vladimir) - bogoroditsy rozhdestva 14 1598-1606
New Jerusalem monastery - Novoierusalimskii monastyr' 48 1772-1774
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 BLOCKADE OF MONASTERY
The monks of Esphigmenou, the most populous monastery on the remote Greek peninsula Mount Athos, disagree with the politicizing of their faith by patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople (Istanbul), and as a result, are once again under siege.
Epiphany commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by St. John the Baptist.
Of all the observances of Epiphany (Theophany- manifestation of God) throughout the world, this is known to be exceedingly rich in religious tradition and significance and astonishingly festive within the Greek Orthodox Church.
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 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
To the monastery, too, came many of the youth of Serbian heritage, to be taught and eventually to become priests of the church.
Following this, he was appointed Superior of the Monastery of Studenitza, instructing and training many of the monks to become Serbian priests and teachers, and in addition, assisting his brother Stefan, in affairs of state, counselling him wisely at all times.
Monasteries in that time served as schools, in which the Serbian youth were taught to read and write.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Martin Luther
On Epiphany (6 January, 1505), he was advanced to the master's degree, being second among seventeen applicants.
A book that helped to depopulate the sanctuary and monastery in Germany, one that Luther himself confessed to be his most unassailable pronouncement, one that Melancthon hailed as a work of rare learning, and which many Reformation specialists pronounce, both as to contents and results, his most important work, had its origin in the Wartburg.
More than 1000 monasteries and castles were levelled to the ground, hundreds of villages were laid in ashes, the harvests of the nation were destroyed, and 100,000 killed.
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That was the promise he had given: to establish a monastery in honor of Smolenskaya icon of the Virgin on condition that Smolensk was freed from the Lithuanians.
In different epochs different parts of the Monastery were erected: majestic walls and towers in the times of Boris Godunov, the Pokrova of the Virgin Church and Uspensky Cathedral - at the end of the XVII century.
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the monastery and its founder for the history of Russia.
www.meteo.ru /wccc2003/excr.htm   (1472 words)

  
 WayToRussia.Net Guide to Russia / The Golden Ring / Kostroma Sightseeing
Nowadays this monastery is the residence of the archbishop of Kostroma.
The main church in the monastery is Epiphany cathedral (Bogoyavlensky cathedral) built in 1559-1565, which is the first building made of stone in Kostroma.
The monastery was making some money on the land, on peasants, on taxes, on navigating along the Volga river, so it could afford itself to build the impressive Trinity cathedral (Troitsky cathedral - Троицкий собор), richly decorated buildings, and stone walls around the territory of the monastery.
www.waytorussia.net /GoldenRing/Kostroma/Sightseeing.html   (1119 words)

  
 Epiphany at the Jordan River
The Monastery of St. John the Baptist next to the Jordan River is usually flocked with pilgrims but yesterday it was suffering to even have local Palestinian Orthodox Christians attend the service with the strict roadblocks and closures of towns and villages.
This usually inaccessible monastery is in the worst shape from any of the Holy sites because it stands in what is considered "no man's land." The property is really in such terrible and appalling condition.
All of the windows and doors are broken, parts of the ceiling are caving in, the walls are peeling and the monastery has not been maintained whatsoever because the Greek patriarch who is technically responsible cannot have access to it.
www.lpj.org /Nonviolence/Maria/Story31.htm   (545 words)

  
 Moscow - Excursions
The most notable structures in the large Monastery complex are the Trinity Cathedral, constructed in 1423 with icons by Andrew Rublev and his contemporaries, and the Dukhovskaya Church, or the Church of the Holy Spirit, which was built in 1476.
Among the largest architectural monuments in the monastery are the Pyatnitskaya Church, or the Friday Church, the Introduction Church, the Assumption Cathedral and the Saint Sergius Church, which is known for the largest hall built in the 17th century.
Architecture from the 16-19th centuries is widely represented by such buildings as the Redemption Monastery, the Monastery of the Intercession of the Virgin, the Monastery of Saint Basil, the Monastery of the Deposition of the Virgin's Robe and the Saint Alexander Monastery.
www.vgp.com /moscow/excursions.html   (1715 words)

  
 Kaftoun's Theotokos
Entrance of the Theotokos Monastery, Kaftoun, Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon.
The locality and the monastery of Kaftoun are cited by the historians of the 9
Until 1972 the icon was affixed to the iconostasis of the monastery's chapel where it was venerated by pilgrims.
www.ortmtlb.org.lb /theotokos.htm   (366 words)

  
 Orthodox Epiphany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The great wooden doors of the monastery church creaked menacingly as their hinges were forced back.
Raifa monastery in Kazan in the republic of Tartarstan is one of them.
Last week its 50 monks, who adhere to the old pre-Gregorian calendar, were celebrating Epiphany which in the Eastern church commemorates the baptism of the adult Christ.
www.mirabilis.ca /archives/001459.html   (446 words)

  
 Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
On the eve of Epiphany Eve, the Deputy Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, Heguman Andronik, Abbess Moisseia and Abbess Elizabeth along with 24 nuns from Gethsemane Convent made the traditional Christmas visit to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Eirinaios.
The holiday of the Epiphany of the Lord is marked in the Holy Land very solemnly.
A white dove is brought from the Monastery of St. Gerasim, which they release to everyone’s great delight during the blessing of the waters.
www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws /english/pages/news/eirinaios.html   (650 words)

  
 Sadlier We Believe
To recognize Epiphany as a special time to support the work of the missions and to name a specific way to bring this supportive response into action.
At Epiphany the Church celebrates the manifestation of the Son of God as the Savior and Messiah.
At the third of his epiphanies, Jesus Christ was manifested as the Son of God at the wedding feast at Cana.
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Epiphany in Alexandria: ---------------------- HH celebrated the Epiphany Mass at St Mark Cathedral in Alexandria.
Participated in the prayer, HG Abba Macarius the Eritrian, HG Abba Joannes, Hegumen Sharobeem El-Pachomy (The Patriarchate deputy) and the church priests, Hegumen Ibrahim F Nawar, Fr Georgius, Fr Morcos and Fr Johanna.
This is the third meeting in the dialog, as the first was held at St Bishoy monastery and was headed by HH Pope Shenouda III and the second was held in the Netherlands and HH gave a speech there.
www.coptic.net /public/news/1997-01-31.txt   (1385 words)

  
 Kostroma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The oldest building in the town is the cathedral of the former Epiphany Monastery (1565).
The Monastery itself was founded in the fourteenth century by the Zernov family of feudal lords, who were the forebears of the Godunovs.
In the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century the walls of the Ipatyevsky Monastery were flened by the smoke of gun-fire, the ground soaked in blood.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Prague   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was his intention to make use of the Benedictine monastery of Sazawa, founded in 1037, with a Greek-Slavonic liturgy, as a national church; he appointed St. Procopius the first abbot of this monastery.
Nicholas II granted the duke the honour of "the mitre" (a cloak) for an annual payment of one hundred marks; this honour was regarded as a sign of royal dignity.
One good measure of the emperor was, that he formed a fund for the maintenance of religion from the property of the suppressed monasteries and used it to increase the number of parishes.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12338a.htm   (4721 words)

  
 Newsletter, July 2005 - Monasteries in social service
The Monastery of the Epiphany was founded in 1426 by St. Nikita of Kostroma, a disciple and relative of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
In 1863, the monastery, destroyed by a fire in 1847 and desolated, merged with St. Anastasia's Convent of the Elevation of the Cross and was transformed into a convent named St. Anastasia's of the Epiphany.
In 1924 St. Anastasia's Cathedral of the Epiphany was allocated for the regional archives.
www.rondtb.msk.ru /newslet/en/58_1_en.htm   (3313 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | January 6 Part 1 | Epiphany Twelfth Night 12th night Magi ...
Epiphany was first observed as a separate religious feast in 813.
As an Epiphany celebration, a mass is held at the Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas and a solemn procession is made to the banks of the local bayou.
Richard was born on Epiphany, and because of this, and that there were three kings present at his birth, came a legend that, despite being a second son, he was destined for great things.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jan6.html   (4365 words)

  
 Golden Ring, Russia
The Trinity Cathedral of the Dormition Monastery (1513) - a palace church of the Tsar residence is the most grandiose and majestic structure of Alexandrova Sloboda and the oldest church on the monastery grounds.
The Monastery of the Trinity and St. Nicolas with its remarkable Cathedral of the Trinity and St. Nicolas was founded during the reign of Tsar Mikhail Romanov (17th c.), the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty.
The Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour was founded in the 12th century, and became one of Russia's richest and most fortified monasteries by the 1500's.
www.travelmake.com /golden_ring.html   (6619 words)

  
 Epiphany Monastery Encyclopedia Articles @ MetalworkArt.com (Metalwork Art)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Epiphany Monastery Encyclopedia Articles @ MetalworkArt.com (Metalwork Art)
The Epiphany Monastery (Bogoyavlensky monastery, Богоявленский монастырь in Russian) is the oldest male monastery in Moscow, situated in the Kitai gorod, just one block away from the Moscow Kremlin.
It was also receiving an allowance of 1245 rubles from the state treasury.
www.metalworkart.com /encyclopedia/Epiphany_Monastery   (642 words)

  
 Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexius, whose real name was Elephtherios, was a son of Theodore Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family.
He took monastic vows at the Epiphany Monastery of Moscow around 1313.
In 1360s, Alexius founded the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, Andronikov, Chudov, and Alekseyevsky monasteries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexius,_Metropolitan_of_Moscow   (296 words)

  
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The archimandrite of the Nativity Monastery of Vladimir, 90 rubles; the cellarer, 70 rubles; the treasurer, 60 rubles; the cathedral elders, 20 rubles apiece.
The hegumen of the Epiphany Monastery of the Old Clothing Shop District, 40 rubles; the cellarer, 20 rubles; the treasurer, 15 rubles; the cathedral elders, 10 rubles apiece.
Concerning those monasteries which are not inscribed in the official ladder [of monasteries], after trial prescribe [the following compensation] for dishonor to them: archimandrites, 10 rubles apiece; hegumens, 8 rubles apiece; cellarers and treasurers, 6 rubles apiece.
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 Kostroma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The oldest building in the town is the cathedral of the Monastery of Epiphany and was built in 1565.
The pride of Kostroma is the museum at the former Ipatyevsky Monastery which played a part in almost every important event of the town's history.
Not far from Ipatyevsky Monastery is a reconstructed wooden village depicting the life of old rural Russia.
www.firebirdtravel.com /kostroma.htm   (233 words)

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