I learned that the Orthodox Church places a greater emphasis on the preservation of human remains than most other religions. The soul supposedly does not depart the body until 45 days after clinical death. Easter celebration includes visiting the remains of one's ancestors. Under communism, however...
It is, however, faithfully ob- served by the Orthodox Churches of the Byzantine tradition. We have al- ready seen how important the break- ing of the bread is in the celebration of the Eucharist. It goes back to our Jewish beginnings and represents the truth that we are all partakers of...
it represented the contempt, willingness to insult all Christians, and specifically the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Rites in union with Rome. It also represented the stupidity of
Six million Polish inhabitants Poland was granted full NATO membership, denomination, adhered to by more than 80% of Polish flavour into 19 entury Italian opera died during WWII (including the country’s and it joined the EU in May 2004. Poles. The Orthodox church’s followers consti- music...
²⁶ In 2001, a partici-pant in a symposium marking the tenth anniversary of the setting up of Roma-nia’s most conclusive exemplification of a radical continuity party—the Greater Romania Party (PRM)—proposed that Antonescu be canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church.²⁷“Mainstream...
Sacred material, in an Orthodox context, does not simply make the holy 'near', but, as my informants stress, the holy 'is at hand'. Take this technological rupture back into the context of temporality. Hann and Goltz are interested in the continuity of Eastern Christianities on the large...
(14th century Brick Tower and 16th century Round tower). Lower town has old gates (Lutsk Gate and Tatar Gate) whileMezhyrich monastery(built in 1612) stands at the suburbs. Constructed by Jonušas Ostrogiškis (Polish: Janusz Ostrogski) for Franciscans, currently it houses an Orthodox ...
“It would make sense for me to go back to our origins: to the water we’re made of and the swirling currents of the underwater epic.” The recurring eruption of violence into the text is at times viscerally disturbing: “Beneath my balcony lay a town that I still couldn’t feel was...