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Despot Stefan Lazarević ordered Grigorije to transcribe the "Paralipomenon" (Books of Chronicles) of Joannes Zonaras the Byzantine writer of the 12th-century who mentions Serbs and which was an important source of knowledge and one of the sources of historical and national consciousness in Serbia during the 14th and 15th century.
In the New Testament, the Greek word for angels (άγγελος) is not only used for heavenly angels, but also used for human messengers, such as John the Baptist (Matthew 11:10, Mark 1:2, Luke 7:27) and God's prophets (Revelation 22:8–9) [20] C.I. Scofield has noted that "The natural explanation of the 'messengers' is that they were men ...
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The concept of Seven Archangels is found in some works of early Jewish literature and in Christianity. [1] In those texts, they are referenced as the angels who serve God directly. The Catholic Church venerates seven archangels: in Latin Christianity , three are invoked by name ( Michael , Gabriel , and Raphael ) while the Eastern Catholic ...
Epiphanius was either born into a Romaniote Christian family or became a Christian in his youth. Either way, he was a Romaniote Jew who was born in the small settlement of Besanduk, near Eleutheropolis (modern-day Beit Guvrin in Israel), and lived as a monk in Egypt, where he was educated and came into contact with Valentinian groups.
The first such case is with John II Mavrocordatos, who called himself Io Ioan in the 1740s, at a time when, as historian Petre P. Panaitescu writes, the memory of Io ' s origin had faded in Moldavia. [40] Another early case was an anonymous manuscript in 1780s Moldavia, which retrospectively refers to a Io Ioan Grigore voievod. [67]
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, [a] and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749.