St. Basil (1469 – 1522) – Simpleton Moscow. The memory is celebrated on August 2.

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Luke – the patriarch. In 1160 wrote a letter to Prince Andrew Bogoliubsky in response to his message.

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Ephraim (Metropolitan of Kiev). About Metropolitan Ephraim of information preserved a little. It is known that he was Greek by origin. Mention of it relates to 1055.

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Sublevels Timothy (died 01/10/1775) – captain Orenburg Cossack army, which was chosen in 1767 as a deputy in Catherine's Commission on the composition of the New Code. Join the opinions of MPs, objecting to the harassment of merchants to ban the production of trade is not all belonging to a merchant class that such a [...]

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John Gold (Eli) (died 02.1870) – Archimandrite, died in February 1870 Born in Great Russian, received his early education in the military branch of Kazan orphanage. In 1810 he entered the lines on military service in Vitebsk Infantry Regiment, participated in the 1811 and 1812 years. in the war against the Turks and the French, [...]

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Gregory the Theologian Haziancky (328 – 390), was born in 328 in Kappadoki, near Nazianzus. Piety was learned in his mother Nonnoyu. Secular sciences studied first at home, at his uncle, a teacher of rhetoric Amphilochius, and then in Caesarea in Cappadocia, Caesarea in Palestine, Adeksandrii in Athens, where he lived with his famous friend, [...]

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Paul (Obnorsky) (1317 – 10/01/1429) – Rev. Obnorsky, rarely called Komel (from rivers Obnory and Comely), the ascetic and hermit XIV-XV centuries. He was born in Moscow in 1317, the prince of Moscow Yuri Danilovich, died on the river Obnore in 1429, 10 January, when, and celebrated his memory. The rich-born, well educated, he from [...]

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Kronos (KronoV) – in the Greek myths the youngest son of Uranus and Gaea, a Titan. Castrated and overthrown from the throne of his father, he married the sister of his Reeyu, who gave birth to Hestia, Demeter and Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus, by Hesiod, in K. there was a golden age. When it [...]

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Mary Magdalene – one of the Myrrh-Bearers, devotion to Christ follower IM, once healed of the terrible disease ("seven demons"). She came from the town of Magdala (teper. Medzhdel), led a dissolute life, and under the influence of AI Christ resurrected to new life, became a model of deep repentance and sincere appeal to faith [...]

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Beloborodov Ivan Naumovich (died 05 (16) .09.1774), an active member of the Peasants' War, led by EI Pugacheva. Place of the bonded to the plants of the peasants in the Urals. In 1759-1766 was a soldier. In January 1774, together with a detachment of the Bashkir joined the revolt. Establish close links with Salavat Yulayev, [...]

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