Saint Basil of Caesarea holds a very important place in the history of Christian liturgy, coming as he did at the end of the age of persecution. Basil's liturgical influence is well attested in early ...
Basil was born into the wealthy family of Basil the Elder, a famous rhetor, and Emmelia of Caesarea, in Pontus, around 330. His parents were renowned for their piety. His maternal grandfather was a Ch ...
Theophrastus introduced his Physics with the proof that all natural existence, being corporeal and composite, requires principles, and first and foremost, motion, as the basis of all change. Denying t ...
Most of the biographical information we have of Theophrastus was provided by Diogenes La?rtius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written more than four hundred years after Theophrastus' ti ...
Jacob of Edessa was born in Aindaba near Aleppo, around 640. He studied at the famous monastery of Qinnasrin (on the left bank of the Euphrates, opposite Jergbis) and later at Alexandria.On his return ...
In the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, bishops are administrative superintendents of the church; they are elected by "delegate" votes for as many years deemed until the age ...
Bishops in all of these communions are ordained by other bishops through the laying on of hands. While traditional teaching maintains that any bishop with apostolic succession can validly perform the ...
The term epískopos meaning bishop in Greek, the early language of the Christian Church, was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presb?teros (literally: "elder" or "senior ...
The Fra Mauro map was made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about 2 meters in diameter. The original wor ...
Babylonian Imago Mundi (c. 600 BCE) Main article: Babylonian Map of the WorldImago Mundi Babylonian map, the oldest known world map, 6th century BCE Babylonia.A Babylonian world map, known as the Imag ...
The Christian Topography (original Greek title Χριστιανικ? Τοπογραφ?α, Latin title Topographia Christiana) is a 6th-century work, one of the earliest essays in scientific geograph ...
There are five levels of education in Eritrea: pre-primary, primary, middle, secondary, and post-secondary. There are nearly 238,000 students in the primary, middle, and secondary levels of education. ...
Eritrea's relationship with the Italian Republic and the European Union are still both reasonably strong and do not seem to be as strained as is the country's relationship with the United States. On 2 ...
Eritrea is the Greek form ?ρυθρα?α (Eruthros or Ereythreus), and its derived Latin form Erythr?a. This name relates to that of the Red Sea, then called the "Erythr?an Sea". On January 1, 189 ...
The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse, with each of the country's 80 ethnic groups being associated with unique sounds. Ethiopian music uses a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with chara ...
