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The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet is the Cyrillic alphabet that was used to write the Romanian language & Church Slavonic until the 1860s, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based Romanian alphabet. [citation needed] Cyrillic remained in occasional use until the 1920s, mostly in Russian-ruled Bessarabia. [1]
In 3rd century Roman Egypt, the Coptic Rite Desert Fathers in Scetes carried pebbles in pouches to count their praying of the Psalms. [3] The Pater Noster Cord, however, originated in the 8th century Celtic Church in Gaelic Ireland as a means to count the recitation of the one hundred and fifty Psalms in the Christian Bible, which are incorporated into the fixed prayer times of Christianity. [5]
The definitive version of the Euchologion used in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was prepared by Peter Mogila, and published in 1646 (republished in Paris, 1988). This edition contains some 20 rituals that were of local origin and are not performed in other Eastern churches (e.g., services for the uncovering of holy relics and for the blessing ...
Until the 19th century, Romanian was usually written using a local variant of the Cyrillic alphabet.A variant based on the reformed Russian civil script, first introduced in the late 18th century, became widespread in Bessarabia after its annexation to the Russian Empire, while the rest of the Principality of Moldavia gradually switched to a Latin-based alphabet, adopted officially after its ...
Coresi, the printer of the first Romanian-language book, saw in 1564 no good in the usage of Church Slavonic as a liturgical language, as the priests speak to the people in a foreign language, arguing that all the other peoples have the word of God in their language, except for the Romanians. [3]
The Romani language has for most of its history been an entirely oral language, with no written form in common use. Although the first example of written Romani dates from 1542, [1] it is not until the twentieth century that vernacular writing by native Romani people arose.
On this account the prayer is sometimes referred to as the Aspirations of St. Ignatius Loyola. [1] However, the prayer actually dates to the early 14th century and was possibly written by Pope John XXII, but its authorship remains uncertain. It has been found in a number of prayer books printed during the youth of Ignatius and is in manuscripts ...