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  2. Sviatohirsk Lavra - Wikipedia

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    The lavra's main Dormition Cathedral was designed by Alexey Gornostaev, who included a traditional Byzantine tower. From 1917 onward, the Bolsheviks plundered and desecrated the monastery on numerous occasions, beating and murdering many monks and in 1922, they shut the monastery down completely, setting up a Sanatorium for the Donbas workers ...

  3. La Dormition des amants - Wikipedia

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    La Dormition des amants is a Belgian novel written by Jacqueline Harpman. It was first published through Éditions Grasset in 2002. It won the Prix triennal du roman of the French Community of Belgium in 2003.

  4. The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin (Moskos)

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    [1] [2] The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin was a popular theme painted by both Greek and Italian artists since the dawn of the new religion. The chronology of the New Testament states that Mary lived for 11 years after the death of Jesus, dying in AD 41 according to Hippolytus of Thebes. The sanhedrin feared that her body would disappear.

  5. Gospels of Otto III - Wikipedia

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    Clm. 4453) [1] is considered a superb example of Ottonian art because of the scope, planning, and execution of the work. [2] The book has 276 parchment pages (334 by 242 mm, 13.1 by 9.5 inches) and has twelve canon tables , a double page portrait of Otto III , portraits of the four evangelists, and 29 full page miniatures illustrating scenes ...

  6. Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery - Wikipedia

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    The monastery was founded in 1397 on the bank of Lake Siverskoye, to the south of the town of Beloozero, in the present-day Vologda Oblast.Its founder, St. Cyril or Kirill of Beloozero, following the advice of his teacher, St. Sergius of Radonezh, first dug a cave here, then built a wooden Dormition chapel and a loghouse for other monks.

  7. Holy day of obligation - Wikipedia

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    The Dormition of Holy Mary, the Mother of God The CCEO provides that only the " supreme authority " of the Church can "establish, transfer or suppress feast days and days of penance which are common to all of the Eastern Churches," although the particular law of a sui juris Church can suppress one of these days or transfer it to Sunday ...

  8. Dormition of the Mother of God - Wikipedia

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    The Dormition of the Mother of God is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches (except the East Syriac churches). It celebrates the "falling asleep" (death) of Mary the Theotokos ("Mother of God", literally translated as God-bearer), and her being taken up into heaven.

  9. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    coupe de glace de la glace au chocolat/à la fraise, etc. An ice cream stand is known as a bar laitier or Crèmerie (in France, a glacier) Croche: Crooked; strange, dishonest Eighth note curieux / bizarre / étrange: Crème glacée: Ice cream de la glace: An ice cream stand is known as a bar laitier or Crèmerie (in France, a glacier ...