Lets start our acquaintance with the city with a place that many consider it the embodiment of absolute harmony and spiritual perfection from the monastery of st. Ifrosyne of polotsk. The transfiguration church, built in the 19th century, is a unique creation of the architecture of ancient polotsk. Its hard to believe, but the talented star ioan erected the shrine in just 30 weeks. And according to legend, more. More than once he heard a voice commanding him o john, get up and go to the work of the almighty savior. the name of this temple is associated with many events in the life of the ancient city, its history and culture. However, even today the walls of the shrine, literally every day they give out sensation after sensation. Personal seals of the outstanding enlightener euphrossinia. Part of a construction drawing from the 19th12th centuries on plinthos. Who knows, maybe we are standing on the threshold of another miraculous discovery, the return of the sacred shrine of the cross
Walls. And we are in a rebuilt church of the 16th century. If you are in sofia, be sure to go down to the lower hall of the museum, here you can see details of byzantine, and to be precise, constantinople masonry. With a hidden, or as it is also called, recessed next to it. The surface has a picturesque, striped structure. And these are the autographs left for us by the ancient masters, david, tuma, mikula. Kopys, peter, and varishka wrote the last name most likely means a native of the varangian. In ancient times the cathedral was not only a religious center. Here they received ambassadors, made peace, declared war, kept princely jewelry, the library founded by prince jazislav, signed numerous trade agreements and even imprisoned princes. To the throne in the 16th century, the temple was blown up, according to one version, this was the work of peter ii, according to another, an explosion in a gunpowder warehouse was a tragic accident, but to tell the truth, i believe much more in the
Retired pope Benedict XVI has admitted to making “errors,” or mistakes, in dealing with clergy sex abuse cases when he was Archbishop of Munich in Germany. The former leader of the Roman Catholic Church has asked for forgiveness. At the same time, his lawyers denied any wrongdoing on his part.