Jonah – Bishop of Chernigov and Bryansk. Reference was made bishop of Chernigov and Bryansk in 1499-1500, respectively.

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Epiphanius the Wise (d. 1420) (not canonized saint) – Lives of the originator, a student teacher. Sergei Radonezhsky. He lived in the late XIV and XV in the beginning., Traveled to the East, was in Constantinople on Mount Athos, in Jerusalem, and died about 1420, in the dignity of priesthood and the spiritual father of [...]

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The Apostle Paul – the greatest preacher of Christianity in the I. among the Gentiles, thus called "Gentiles". P. – son of wealthy Jewish parents who belonged to the party of strict adherents of the Mosaic law – the Pharisees (Acts XXIII, 6). In his youth he received a good education at a famous school [...]

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Litwin, SK (also S. Efron) – the author of slanderous works against their coreligionists. Placed in "Sunrise" (1895, Bk. V, VI), signed "S. Efron, heat to write the story" My uncle, Reb Shebsel-Eiser, LA at the same time, published under the pseudonyms of anti-Semitic publications of short stories, full of malicious fabrications, stories, not excluding [...]

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Asmodeus (actually Ashmeday, that is, the tempter) – angry, voluptuous demon mentioned in the later Jewish literature. In the book of Tobias A. kills out of jealousy, one after another seven husbands of Sarah, in the Talmud it is called the prince of demons, that is Satan cast out of King Solomon from his kingdom. [...]

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Pashkovsky John Prokopievich – a priest from the Little Russian territory, in 1697 – 1699 was accompanied by the boyar Boris Sheremetev on island of Malta, and there is every reason to think that he was the author of "Adventures in the Maltese island of boyar Boris Sheremetev. Suspect that Pashkovskiœ was the author of [...]

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (10/02/1869 – 01/30/1948), one of the leaders of the national liberation movement of India, the founder of the doctrine, known as Gandhism. He was born in Porbandar Gujarat principality. Gandhi's father was a minister in several principalities Peninsula Kathiyavar. Gandhi grew up in a family where strictly adhered to Hindu traditions that [...]

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Gregory I (540) – a saint, is of an importance of history, a title of Great, we are usually called: Dvoeslov or Beclovnik, red for the sake of his conversations, "as defined by the origin of the name of our mine. Born in Rome around 540 BC, a wealthy and distinguished piety: the mother and [...]

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Sora Neal (about 1433) – the famous figure of the Russian Church. Information about him are scarce and fragmentary. Born around 1433, belonged to a peasant family, his nickname was Mike. Prior to joining the monastic NA engaged in copying books, was "skoropistsem. More precise information is already caught N. monk. Haircut in Cyril N. [...]

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Girolamo Savonarola (1452 – 23/05/1498) – the famous Italian preacher and social reformer, was born in 1452, came from the old Padua name. His grandfather, Michael S., was a famous physician. Father S. was preparing his son to a medical career and tried to give him a thorough education. In thoughtful silence the boy soon [...]

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