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Cincizecimea (Pogorârea Sfântului Duh)

Βασιλεῦ οὐράνιε Παράκλητε τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας ὁ πανταχοῦ παρὼν καὶ τὰ πάντα πληρῶν ὁ θησαυρός τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ ζωῆς χορηγός, ἐλθὲ καὶ σκήνωσον ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ καθάρισον ἡμᾶς ἀπὸπάσης κ ηλῖδος καὶ σῶσον ἀγαθέ, τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν.

St Benedict’s relics discovered at the British Museum (The Guardian)

The new medieval gallery at the British Museum is full of beautiful images of saints in ivory, stone, gold and wood – but invisible to visitors, it also holds the bones of 39 real saints, whose discovery came as a shock to their curator. The relics, packed in tiny bundles of cloth including one scrap of fabric over 1,000 years old, were found when a 12th-century German portable altar was opened for the first time since it came into the British Museum collection in 1902. It was in for a… Read more St Benedict’s relics discovered at the British Museum (The Guardian)