The modern Bulgarians are descendants of many different ancient peoples, says Ivo Kremenski Professor Ivo Kremenski is a person who knows a lot about the genes of the Bulgarian people. He heads the National Laboratory of Genetics, where recently an international team has discovered the reason for the hereditary atrophy of the peripheral nervous system. We asked Prof. Kremenski questions about the genetically predetermined diseases, about the orig...
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London Museum apologizes to Bulgaria for the blunder with the "Macedonian" inscription  British Museum officials apologized to the Bulgarian Embassy in London and changed the scandalous inscription under the Tetraevalgelia of VidinPhoto: Archives of StandartDo you remember how grandfather Liben, the character of Bulgarian writer Lyuben Karavelov, takes the mickey out of the citizens of the British Islands: "These are the oddest people on earth. I ...
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| | | | December 22, 2006
Name day of everyone named Anastasia, Asya, Natasha. St. Anastasia was a Roman lady of noble descent. Her father was an opulent and noble pagan; but her mother, who was a Christian, caused her to be baptized in her infancy, and secretly reared her in sentiments of Christian piety, in which she made great progress. St. Anastasia had been married to a noble Roman, named Publius, who was a pagan; he loved his wife much, but havin... |
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November 30, 2006 Name day of everyone named Andrey, Andriana (the name has the meaning "masculine", therefore "strong"). The Holy Apostle Andrew, the First-Called, was the first of the Apostles to follow Christ, and he later brought his own brother, the holy Apostle Peter, to Christ. The future apostle was from Bethsaida, and from the time of his youth he turned with all his soul to God. He did ...
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 The Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy God's Mother, according to Holy Tradition, this took place in the following manner: the parents of the Virgin Mary, Righteous Joachim and Anna, praying for an end to their childlessness, vowed that if a child were born to them, they would dedicate it to the service of God. When the Most Holy Virgin reached the age of three, the holy parents decided to fulfill their vow. They gathered together their relat...
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Name day of everyone named Matey. St. Matthew (meaning "gift of God") was identified as a tax collector, and was of Jewish race. In the other accounts of his meeting with Jesus, he is called Levi. This use of two different names has led some scholars to argue for two different persons, due to the absence of Levi from the apostolic lists. Others, however, have argued that Matthew had a double name, because the Jews frequently carried two names - ... |
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 November 15th, 2006, starts the 40-day Christmas Fasting, introduced by the Church later than the Holy Fasting for Easter. In 1166 the Patriarch of Constantinople, Luke Chrysoberges, defined the Christmas Fasting Days to be exactly 40. The celebrations of the Holy Nativity feast became popular around the year of 350 AD in the western Europe, while in Eastern Europe they were first introduced by St Gregorii Bogoslov (i.e. St Gregory the Theologian...
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Name day of everyone named Angel, Angelina, Mihaill, Gavrail, Radka, Radko, Raina, Ognian, Plamen, Emilia, Emil. Ceremonial table: Rite bread, red wine, lamb. The Christian holiday Council of St. Archangel Mikhail, called by the people in Bulgaria Rangel`s day or Hrangel`s day is celebrated in November because it is the ninth month since the creation of the world. The church honors that day because of the existing idea of the nine angels? ranks, c...
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Bulgaria was founded in the year 681, but now is not the time to discuss its Medieval history. Later we will also speak of the ancient Thracian, Greek, and Roman civilizations which each left their mark on these Bulgarian lands. At this moment, we must concern ourselves with understanding the nature of Bulgaria today and will quickly summarize key events of more recent times. In the 14th century Bulgaria was captured and brutally ...
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