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	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		Sainted Sophronios, Patriarch of Jerusalem, was born in Damascus.
		Saint Evthymii, quite up in age, was troubled in soul that the actions of Shemyaka might cast a pall over his relations with the church primate he so deeply revered, and he dispatched a letter to Saint Jona.
		Highly revering the saint, the monks of the Vyazhitsk monastery in gratitude erected a church in honour of Saint Evthymii, which was noted in the census of 1500.
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		Cathedral of the Annunciation, (Kremlin, Moscow) 1484-89, 1560s-70s.
		"Jerusalem" Ciborium [for Cathedral of the Dormition], 1486.
		Cathedral of the Dormition, Trinity Saint Sergius Monastery (Sergiyev Posad [Zagorsk]0, 1559-85.
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	Nordic Travel. Novgorod :: Sights
		Sophia Cathedral has always been considered to be the heart of the Kremlin.
		The cathedral was consecrated in honour of Saint Sophia the Wisdom of God in 1052 by the Archbishop Luka.
		The height of the cathedral is 38 meters.
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	St. Sophia Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sophia Cathedral - one of the most ancient Russian stone constructions - was founded by prince Yaroslav the Wise, his son Vladimir and the archbishop Luka, as a public place of worship.
		This explains the fact that the church was dedicated to Sophia, meaning the Lord's Wisdom, the immensity of its size, and also the use of its southern gallery as a burial place of outstanding Novgorod citizens such as princes, archbishops and posadniks.
		A well-known saying went "Where there is St. Sophia, there is Novgorod." Such an attitude received further development in the beginning of the 15th century when the central dome was gilded, and a leaden pigeon, personifying the Sacred Spirit, was fixed on the central cross.
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	Sacred Sites of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Novgorod, one of the oldest cities in Russia, was founded in the 5th century AD on the shore of the Volkhov River.
		Scholars interpret the dedication of Novgorod’s cathedral to St. Sophia (as also occurred with the great cathedrals in Kiev and Polotsk) as a continuation of a cult of the Great Goddess that was widely practiced in these regions since archaic times.
		During the Soviet period and the German occupation of 1941-44, the city of Novgorod was severely damaged and the cathedral was pillaged, bombed and left to deteriorate.
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		It is one of the earliest stone structures of northern Russia, a senior contemporary of Notre Dame in Paris, and the cathedrals of Rheims, Amiens, Bamberg and Naumburg.
		The cathedral was built by Prince Vladimir, the son of Yaroslav the Wise, grand duke of Kiev, and until the 1130s this principal church of the city also served as the sepulchre of Novgorodian princes.
		The cathedral exterior is striking in its majesty and epic splendour evoking the memories of Novgorod's glorious past and invincible might.
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	History of Art: Byzantine Art
		Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod (1044-52), on the other hand, is a purely Russian structure.
		The Saint Sophia Cathedral was built in 11 century.
		The figure of the Mother of God, the gospel narrative, the figures of the warrior saints (favourite of all imperial Byzantine art subjects), and significant prophets, patriarchs, holy bishops, and monks are all recurring images.
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	Rus'-Byzantine War (1043) Encyclopedia @ Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Under the terms of the peace settlement, Yaroslav's son Massacre of Novgorod married a daughter of Emperor monoxylae.
		The cathedral formerly boasted the so-called Korsun Treasure, which was reportedly brought to Novgorod by Prince Vladimir (usually identified by medieval authors with Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod).
		Among foreign authors, Portals and Anatolian rela te that the copper Korsun Gate of the cathedral was seized by the Novgorodians in Theotokos, where it had been used as a city gate.
	216.92.11.22 /encyclopedia/Rus'-Byzantine_War_(1043) (834 words)

	Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev (Ukrainian: Собор Святої Софії, Sobor Svyatoyi Sofiyi or Софійський собор, Sofiys'kyi sobor, Russian: Собор Святой Софии, Sobor Svyatoi Sofii or Софийский собор, Sofiyskiy sobor) is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'.
		Originally the cathedral was a burial place of the Kievan rulers including Vladimir Monomakh, Vsevolod Yaroslavich and of course the cathedral's founder Yaroslav I the Wise.
		Nevertheless in 1934 the structure was confiscated by the Soviets and designated an architectural and historical museum/reserve, including the surrounding architectural ensemble of the seventeenth–eighteenth century.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Saint_Sophia_Cathedral_in_Kiev (465 words)

	Vologda
		It was not until 1412, when the area was ceded by Novgorod Republic to Muscovy, that the town acquired any measure of importance.
		It was at that time that Ivan the Terrible ordered the town's cathedral, named after Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, to be rebuilt in stone.
		Vologda's Saint Sophia, consecrated in 1570, was one of the largest cathedrals built in Russia up to that time.
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		Another great example of an early church of Kievan Rus' was the thirteen-domed Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev (1037-1054), built by Yaroslav the Wise.
		Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod (1044-1052) on the other hand, displayed a new style that exerted a strong influence on Russian church architecture, with its austere thick walls, small narrow windows, and helmeted cupolas.
		A further departure from Byzantine models is evident in subsequent cathedrals at Novgorod, such as St Nicholas's (1113), St Anthony's (1117-1119), and St George's (1119).
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	Novgorod, Russia, Pictures
		Novgorod retains examples of early Russian architecture, including a kremlin (citadel) and the Cathedral of Saint Sophia (both 11th century).
		One of the oldest cities in Russia, Novgorod was founded as early as the 5th or 6th century.
		In the 13th and 14th centuries, Novgorod flourished as a trade outpost of the Hanseatic League and was a major cultural center.
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	Architecture of Rus - ArchitectureofRus
		Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod (1044-52), on the other hand, expressed a new style that exerted a strong influence on Russian church architecture.
		The churches of Novgorod, such as the Saviour-on-the-Ilyina-Street (1374), are steep-roofed and carved in a rough manner.
		These ambitious Kremlin cathedrals-the Dormition Cathedral, the Archangel Cathedral, and the Annunciation Cathedral-were imitated throughout Russia during the sixteenth century, with new edifices tending to be larger and more ornate than their predecessors (for example, the Hodegetria Cathedral of Novodevichy Convent, 1520s).
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	Resources on Saint-Sophia Cathedral academic institutions
		Russian Orthodoxy: The elaborateness of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia could not be duplicated everywhere in Rus', and the typical model for future churches in Russia's middle...
		Venetos was the dean of Saint Sophia Cathedral from 1975 to 1987.
		Russia, 2001: Sophiaâs Cathedral is the oldest in Russia).
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	A History of the Russian Church
		It was the young prince of Novgorod, Alexander Nevsky, that organized the defence of the Russian lands against the Western invaders, the most spectacular battle being fought and won by Alexander at Lake Chud on 5 April 1242.
		The greatest saint of this age was Seraphim of Sarov.
		The monumental Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow (built to commemorate the defeat of Napoleon in 1812), the monasteries of the Kremlin, and the numerous parish churches of the Russian capital (said to number forty times forty) fell victim to the communists' enthusiasm for the use of dynamite on objects of beauty.
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	Selected
		The wise Sophia was left a widow and, as a Christian, steeped herself and her daughters in the Christian faith.
		Sophia took the dead bodies of her daughters out of the town and buried them, and stayed by their grave in prayer for three days and nights, then gave her soul to God, hastening to the heavenly company where the blessed souls of her daughters awaited her.
		Blessed Sophia found her body and buried it, and Anastasia was crowned with the wreath of martyrdom under the Emperor Decius (249-251).
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	Saint Sophia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev - Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev (,) is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'.
		Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod - The Cathedral of St.Â Sophia in Novgorod (the Holy Wisdom of God) was constructed from 1045 to 1052 and is the oldest church building in Russia.
		Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom - Princess Augusta Sophia of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick and LÃ¼neburg was born on November 8, 1768 at Buckingham House, Saint James's Park, London and died on September 22, 1840 at Clarence House, St. James, London.
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	Selected lives of Saints. July - August
		The saints, finding themselves on earth, penetrated the higher world with their spirit, and some saw hosts of angels, others earned the right to see the image of God (Isaiah, Ezekiel), others were transported to the third Heaven and heard secret indescribable words there, for example, the Apostle Paul.
		Saint Gleb is considered to be an educator of the Murom-Riazan region, where from those ancient times up to now he is remembered as the first Christian evangelist and protector of the country.
		Saint Basil was buried in Moscow in the church of the Protection of the Most Holly Theotokos that is usually referred to as the Cathedral of St. Basil, fool-for-Christ-sake.
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	Kievan Rus Database (Church: Saint Sophia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the Saint Sofia Cathedral in Kiev, in the chapel of Saint Vladimir at the angle of the south wall is a marbled sarcophagus of Greek workmanship -- it is the tomb of Yaroslav.
		Circa 1045-62: A Saint Sophia church was built by Yaroslav or Vladimir Yaroslavich to replace the one that had burned.
		Sofian: Literally St. Sophia's man, that is, one connected with the cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod; a squire in the service of the Archbishop of Novgorod.
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	Alexander Palace Time Machine - Feodorovsky Imperial Cathedral
		The Fyodorovsky Cathedral was constructed simultaneously with the establishment of the temporary church in the battalion house.
		It was decided that it was more appropriate that the new cathedral in the Tsar's residence should imitate the style of the Annunciation Church in Moscow on the Kremlin grounds which had been the personal home church of the first Romanovs.
		Among them there was the ikon of Nicholas the Miracle Worker, from ancient Novgorod, a carved ikon of Saint Nickolas from the 17th century, a 17th century ikon of the Assumption of the Virgin, an ikon of the Resurrection and an ikon of Saint Aleksey.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/fsobor.html (2855 words)

	Masterpieces of Ancient Russia.
		Novgorod - one of the most ancient cities of Russia located in its North-West, near the site where the Volkhov river takes its waters from Lake Ilmen, emerged as a political center of Slavic and Fino-Ugric tribes in the mid-9th century, while as a town it was formed in the middle of the 10th century.
		The efforts of Novgorod Bishops in spreading and promoting the Orthodoxy were given high credit in the mid-12th century when they were elevated to the ranks of Archbishops which made the Bishops Chair of Novgorod most powerful in the Russian Orthodoxy.
		Novgorod is the cradle of Russian republican and democratic traditions.
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	AllRefer.com - Novgorod (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Novgorod's industries produce chemicals, fertilizer, and wood and food products.
		The magnificent architectural monuments of Novgorod earned it the name the "museum city" until World War II, when it was held by the Germans (1941–44) and suffered great damage.
		Chief among the losses was the 12th-century kremlin, on the left river bank, containing the Cathedral of St. Sophia (founded 1045).
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	Kievan Rus\' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There, they were so astounded by the beauty of the cathedral of Hagia Sophia and the liturgical service held there, that they had made up their minds there and then about the faith they would like to follow.
		In the north, the Republic of Novgorod prospered as part of Kievan Rus′ because it controlled trade routes from the Volga River to the Baltic Sea.
		In its political structure and mercantile activities, Novgorod resembled the north European towns of the Hanseatic League, the prosperous alliance that dominated the commercial activity of the Baltic region between the 13th century and the 17th century, more than the other principalities of Kievan Rus′.
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	SaintSophia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I spent January of 2002 in Novgorod, Russia.
		Being one of the most picturesque and oldest cities of Russia, dating back to the 9th century, Novgorod has the advantage over other Russian towns of having not suffered the full weight of the Mongol-Tatars invasion.
		One such monument, the main sight in Novgorod's Kremlin, is St. Sophia's cathedral, built in early 11th century to imitate the famous St. Sophia in Kiev.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
		Traditionally, they were said to be brought to Novgorod by Saint Vladimir from Korsun in Crimea as part of the so-called Korsun Treasure.
		While some icons from the Korsun Treasure may still be seen in the cathedral, the original gate has been replaced on several occasions.
		The gate donated to the cathedral in 1335 by Archbishop Basil was transferred at the behest of Ivan III to his residence in Alexandrov near Moscow, where they still may be seen.
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	NOVGOROD SCHOOL
		Novgorod was a republic (it called itself Lord Novgorod the Great), governed by the veche, a democratic assembly of all citizens, roughly resembling a parliament.
		Among the saints most beloved and popular in Novgorod are Saint Nicholas, St.
		Most of these saints were particularly venerated because their celebrations fell on the days important for the peasant's agricultural calendar or because they were connected to the ancient Slavic pagan gods (Saint Nicholas to Veles, St. George to Dazhbog, Elijah to Perun, Paraskeva to Mokosh, and Cosmas and Damianos to Svarog).
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	Amazon.com: "Cathedral of Saint Sophia": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THE MYSTIC ROSE 99 was held in the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, and thousands attended." She did not look at him when she spoke, but kept her eyes on the road...
		In any case, Sophia, particularly revered as Holy Wisdom by Eastern Christianity, as indicated by the great cathedral of Saint Sophia in ancient Con- stantinople, was never a sexual being.
		Saint Sophia Hotels -- Hotels near Saint Sophia.
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