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He is considered by adherents of Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a saint, confessor and venerable Elder. Karslidis' relics are kept in the Monastery of the Ascension of Christ, in Taxiarchis, Drama, [ 2 ] and he is one of the few saints known to bear an imprint of the sign of the cross on his skull.
Cato Maior de Senectute ("Cato the Elder on Old Age") is an essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death. To lend his reflections greater import, [ 1 ] Cicero wrote his essay such that the esteemed Cato the Elder was lecturing to Scipio Aemilianus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens .
Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, places Bethsaida on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee. [5] The historian Josephus says that the town of Bethsaida (at that time called Julia), was situated 120 stadia from the lake Semechonitis, not far from the Jordan River as it passes into the middle of the Sea of Galilee. [6]
R. Gamaliel depicted in a medieval miniature. Gamaliel the Elder (/ ɡ ə ˈ m eɪ l i əl,-ˈ m ɑː-, ˌ ɡ æ m ə ˈ l iː əl /; [1] also spelled Gamliel; Hebrew: רַבַּן גַּמְלִיאֵל הַזָּקֵן Rabban Gamlīʾēl hazZāqēn; Koinē Greek: Γαμαλιὴλ ὁ Πρεσβύτερος Gamaliēl ho Presbýteros), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the ...
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was an honorary elder. [25] Until her release from house arrest in 2010 the Elders kept an empty chair at each of their meetings, to mark their solidarity with Suu Kyi and Burma/Myanmar's other political prisoners. In line with the requirement that members of The Elders ...
A man in Michigan has been accused of killing his own mother before allegedly shooting his neighbor. Roger Schweda, 40, was arraigned on Monday, Dec. 9 of two counts of open murder and two counts ...
Bill Neidjie in 1989. Big Bill Neidjie OAM (c. 1913 – 23 May 2002), nicknamed "Kakadu Man", was the last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language, an Aboriginal Australian language from northern Kakadu, after which Kakadu National Park is named.
Bagoas is mentioned in three surviving sources and is distinct from Bagoas the Elder, who attempted to assassinate Darius III. [5] In Parallel Lives, he is only briefly mentioned during a dance competition, but in the Histories of Alexander the Great by Quintus Curtius Rufus he is given a more elaborate role in Alexander's court. [6]