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The first nun the Bolsheviks threw into the abandoned mineshaft was best known as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Russian Empress Alexandra. After the 1905 assassination of her Grand Duke husband, Elizabeth became an Orthodox nun, giving away her wealth to build hospitals and orphanages. She was executed in 1918, along with others linked to her doomed brother-in-law, Tsar Nicholas II. When the nuns didn’t drown, a soldier used a grenade. He later testified, “we heard talking and a barely audible groan. I threw another grenade. And what do you think — f...

Prince Philip and his search for his orthodox roots | Terry Mattingly Terry Mattingly The first nun the Bolsheviks threw into the abandoned mineshaft was best known as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Russian Empress Alexandra. After the 1905 assassination of her Grand Duke husband, Elizabeth became an Orthodox nun, giving away her wealth to build hospitals and orphanages. She was executed in 1918, along with others linked to her doomed brother-in-law, Tsar Nicholas II. When the nuns didn't drown, a soldier used a grenade. He later testified, "we heard talking and a b...

How the Mount Athos monasteries prospered for centuries By Alice Isabella Sullivan Mount Athos—the peninsula in Greece that is home to one of the oldest Eastern Christian monastic communities—has received support from an array of patrons over the course of its long history. This patronage of Athos ensured the autonomous continuity and prosperity of the monasteries and accorded with the royal aspirations of those rulers who extended the gifts and donations. From the Middle Ages to the present, monastic life on Mount Athos has unfolded in 20 main monasteries, some with a history that dates ...

You tell us if anything of substance came from the meetings so far today? >> well, all indications is that there is an agreement reached by secretary of state john kerry along with the israeli prime n minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian and the jordanian officials. and now the focus of these talk s were around the old city, and particularly the access of what the jews accept the most sacred as the holy mount or the omar, and so the reason it is the subject of the talks is because of the recent flare ups, and according to the united states, there are new measures to be put in place ...

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