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Margaret the Barefooted (1325–1395) was born into a poor family in San Severino, Italy. [1] She was abused by her husband for years because of her dedication to the church and to helping the poor and sick. She walked barefooted as a beggar to better associate herself with the poor. She died widowed in 1395 of natural causes. [2]
Serampore Missionary Press First Bengali New Testament. Nathaniel B. Halhead of the East India Company published a Bengali grammar for British officials in 1776 to aid interaction with the local Bengali population. [1] William Carey of Serampore translated the Bible into the Bengali language and published it in 1793 and 1801.
Bangladeshi Folk Literature (Bengali: বাংলাদেশী লোক সাহিত্য) constitutes a considerable portion of Bengali literature.Though it was created by illiterate communities and passed down orally from one generation to another it tends to flourish Bengali literature.
The church is dedicated to Saint Margaret of Scotland, an Anglo-Saxon princess who was born in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century and is the most famous Hungarian saint in the United Kingdom. Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile, and granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King of England. [2]
The church, St. Margaret's, was formally dedicated on 15 April 1880 by Rev. William Henry Elton. [ 1 ] The first district chaplain was Rev. John Kemp, who came to Ceylon from State of Sarawak in Borneo , where he had been a chaplain and a missionary under the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) for three years.
The Chandimangal (Bengali: চণ্ডীমঙ্গল) is an important subgenre of mangalkavya, the most significant genre of medieval Bengali literature. The texts belonging to this subgenre eulogize Chandi or Abhaya, primarily a folk goddess, but subsequently identified with Puranic goddess Chandi.
Bangla O Bangali (Bengali: বাংলা ও বাঙালী; English: "Bengal and Bengalees" ) is a Bengali-language historical book written by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was first published in 1988. [ 1 ]
Noni Bhoumik (Bangla: ননী ভৌমিক; 1921–1996) was a Bengali writer and translator, primarily known for his translations of Russian literature into Bengali.. He was born in Rangpur, Bengal Presidency, in British India, and studied in Rangpur and Pabna before moving to Birbhum.