 That day the Church commemorates an important event in the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ. Forty days after His birth, the God-Infant was taken to the Jerusalem Temple, the center of the nation's religious life. According to the Law of Moses, a woman who gave birth to a male child was forbidden to enter the Temple of God for forty days. At the end of this time the mother came to the Temple with the child, to offer a young lamb or pigeon ...
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 A new detailed masterplan of the Beklemeto tourist complex, in the Balkan Range, has been drafted and can be contested before the local government in Troyan within the next month. Once that window closes, the masterplan will be reviewed by the Troyan municipal council. The masterplan maps out the future development of the complex on a territory of 27 ha. The list of facilities that will be constructed includes retail outlets, medical units, tou...
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 European colleges compete for Bulgarian gifted students, teachers are trained abroad
Elite colleges in Europe and the USA compete for Bulgarian young talents. Private secondary schools offer scholarships and other preferential rights to Bulgarian schoolboys and girls. Representatives of schools from all over the world arrive tomorrow in Bulgaria and will organize interviews for higher and school students who want to study abroad. Prestigious Broo...
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The biosphere reserve Steneto is located in the Troyan mountain, in the upper stream of the Cherni Osam river. It was proclaimed as a natural reserve on April 5 1979. It was established to preserve the nature in the majestic gorge Steneto and is included in UNESCO’s “Man and Biosphere” programme. The reserve is a home of the greatest variety of forest and rock birds on the Balkans. Steneto is also the area most densely inhabited by brown bears i...
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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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 The mild weather around Europe seems to have sent many a skiers to Bulgaria's resorts. Borovets, one of the top three winter resorts in the country, offered this weekend good skiing opportunities for its guests, mostly Russians and Britons. The resort has three runs open. Skiers will find functional runs in Vitosha mountain, Bansko and Pamporovo. Meanwhile experts commented that northern Europe could reap big benefits from global warming. "The Medi...
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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 ot... |
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