Great Consecration of St. Olga's Church - Вел. Освящение Ольгинского храма
Великое освящение Ольгинского храма - Джексон, шт. Нью-Джерси США
In 2013, the Eastern American Diocese commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of St. Vladimir Memorial Church in Jackson, NJ. The church was founded in 1938, with the laying of the cornerstone taking place in 1940. Throughout the long years, during which the majestic Memorial Church was being built, the divine serves were held in the relatively humble lower church named in honor of the Holy Equal-of-the-Apostles Grand Princess Olga -- foremother of the Russian princes and the first among them to accept Orthodoxy. This year, in honor of the Memorial Church's jubilee, as well as the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, gave his blessing to perform the Great Consecration of the lower church.
On Tuesday the 23rd and Wednesday the 24th of July, on the very feast day of St. Olga, Metropolitan Hilarion visited Jackson and led the divine services (Metropolitan Hilarion is also the rector of the Memorial Church.) On Wednesday morning, after the greeting of the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God -- Protectress of the Russian Diaspora -- the rite of the Great Consecration was performed, followed by the Divine Liturgy.
Rodion Shchedrin: Dead Souls - Opera in three acts (HD 1080p)
From the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg (2012)
Orchestra and Choir of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev - musical director and conductor
Vasily Barkhatov - stage director
Sergei Romanov - Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov
Sergei Semishkur - Nozdryov
Larisa Diadkova - Korobochka
Sergei Aleksashkin - Sobakevich
Svetlana Volkova - Plyushkin
Alexander Timchenko - Manilov
Karina Chepurnova - Lizanka Manilova
Andrei Popov - Selifan
Andrei Serov - Mizhuev
Tatiana Kravtsova - Anna Griegorievna
Varvara Solovyova - Sofia Ivanovna
Vladimir Felyauer - Governor
Lyudmila Kanunnikova - The Governor’s wife
Yekaterina Devitchinskaya - The Governor’s daughter
Alexander Gerasimov - Procurator
Yvgeny Ulanov - Chief of Police
Vitaly Ishutin - Postmaster
Dmitry Koleushko - President oft he Court
Nikita Gribanov - Priest
Nikolai Kamensky - Captain Ispravnik
Dmitry Turchaninov - Porfiry
Oleg Losev - Pavlushka
Rodion Shchedrin: Dead Souls - Opera in three acts after a novel by Nikolai Gogol
Music and libretto by Rodion Shchedrin
01:37 First Act
54:06 Second Act
1:38:57 Third Act
St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre has staged the opera Dead Souls to the music by Rodion Shchedrin, who turns 80 in 2012. One of the indisputable operatic masterpieces of the 20th century will appear in the brand new, bright, expressive staged version, more than 30 years later, again at the Mariinsky Theatre. The premiere of the production took place on March 18. It is the first Russian production since its 1977 premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Zinovy Margolin - set designer
Maria Danilova - costume designer
Damir Ismagilov - lighting designer
Marina Mishuk - musical preperation
Andrei Petrenko - principal chorus master
Зачатьевский ставропигиальный женский монастырь.
It is the oldest convent in Moscow. It was founded by St. Alexis Metropolitan of Moscow in the third quarter of the 14th century (according to other sources - in 1360). The first residents of the Convent were sisters of St. Alexis, St. Juliana (Mother Superior) and Eupraxia. The first wooden church of the Convent in honour of the Conception of the Holy Mary by St. Anna was built on St. Alexis' money. In the beginning of the 16th century in the place of that church Grand Prince Basil the Third ordered to build the stone church in honour of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ with the side-chapel of St. Alexis the man of God. It was rebuilt in 1547. After the fire in 1547 the convent was moved from Ostozhie to Chertolie where it existed named as of St. Alexis (Alexeevsky) until 1837 when in that place the construction of the Church of Christ the Saviour began and the Convent was moved to Krasnoe (Red) Village.
In the original place only small Convent of the Conception remained but soon it was ruined. It was restored in 1584 by the tsar Fedor Ivanovich and tsarina Irina Fedorovna who built in the Convent the new church of the Conception with the side-chapels of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates and St. Irina and the refectory Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin.
In 1612 the convent was ruined by Polish soldiers. In 1623 it was restored. In 1804 - 07 in the place of the demolished church dated back to the 16th century under the design of the architect M.F. Kazakov the majestic Cathedral was built in honour of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin with the side-chapels of the Conception of the Holy Mary by St. Anna, the Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates, St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow (1799) and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (1887). The capacity of the new Cathedral included fully (in the Kazan side-chapel in 1887) the church in honour of the Icon of the Mother of God The Unburnt Bush (1766) located over the place of burial of the sisters of St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow. In 1812 the Convent was ruined by Napoleon's army (the residents of the Convent were under protection of the enemy officer Baron Taulet for three days) but it was restored quickly. In 1844 - 50 the building of the alms-house with the church was built in honour of the Advent (1846 - 58; architect - M.D. Bykovsky). The intensive construction took place on the border of the 19th -- 20th centuries.
In November in 1917 the Convent was in the area of violent battles (the Red Army men stormed the headquarters of the Moscow Military District in the Vsevolzhsky Lane). On the 16th of March in 1925, 9 days before his death St. Tikhon the Patriarch of All Russia served his last Liturgy.
The Convent was closed in 1927. The cathedral continued to serve for some time and was destroyed in the 1930-ies. In that place the building of the secondary school was built. After the Convent was closed the venerable Icon of the Mother of God The Merciful and some other sacred things were kept in the Church of Elijah the Prophet in the Obydensky Lane. Nowadays the Icon of the Mother of God was given back to the Convent.
The Convent was revived on the 5th of May in 1995.
A part of the fence, cell houses (the 19th -- 20th centuries) are extant. Under the control of the Convent the alms-house, publishing house, sewing and iconography workshops and bakery operate.
Churches
Over-the gates church in honour of the Icon of Christ Not Made With Hands (1696 over the northern Holy Gate of the Convent) was built on the money of A.L. Rimsky-Korsakov the Stolnik of Peter the Great in the style of Moscow baroque. It is the only surviving church of the churches of the ancient cloister. It was recorded as parish (people were baptized and married in the Church but in other churches of the Convent it was not allowed). It is small, single-domed quadrangular with the octagonal crown. It is surrounded from the south and west with the open ambulatories. The entrance to the ambulatories is from the external side of the fence because until 1744 the church was a house church of the Rimsky-Korsakov family. Divine services were resumed in 1993.
Under the over-the-gates Church there is the Chapel of St. Alexis the Metropolitan of Moscow. The Church of the Conception of the Holy Mary by St. Anna was arranged after the convent reviving in one of the premises of the refectory.
Since 2001 the Church of the Advent has been under restoration.
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The purpose of this timeline is to give a detailed account of Christianity from the beginning of the current era (AD) to the present. Question marks ('?') on dates indicate approximate dates.
The year one is the first year in the Christian calendar (there is no year zero), which is the calendar presently used (in unison with the Gregorian calendar) almost everywhere in the world. Traditionally, this was held to be the year Jesus was born; however, most modern scholars argue for an earlier or later date, the most agreed upon being between 6 BC and 4 BC.
6 Herod Archelaus deposed by Augustus; Samaria, Judea and Idumea annexed as Iudaea Province under direct Roman administration, capital at Caesarea, Quirinius became Legate (Governor) of Syria, conducted Census of Quirinius, opposed by Zealots (JA18, Luke 2:1–3, Acts 5:37)
7-26 Brief period of peace, relatively free of revolt and bloodshed in Iudaea & Galilee
9 Pharisee leader Hillel the Elder dies, temporary rise of Shammai
14-37 Tiberius, Roman Emperor
18-36 Caiaphas, appointed High Priest of Herod's Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus, deposed by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius
19 Jews, Jewish proselytes, astrologers, expelled from Rome
26-36 Pontius Pilate, Prefect (governor) of Iudaea, recalled to Rome by Syrian Legate Vitellius on complaints of excess violence (JA18.4.2)
28 or 29 John the Baptist begins his ministry in the 15th year of Tiberius (Luke 3:1–2), saying: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near (Matthew 3:1–2), a relative of Jesus (Luke 1:36), a Nazirite (Luke 1:15), baptized Jesus (Mark 1:4–11), later arrested and beheaded by Herod Antipas (Luke 3:19–20), it's possible that, according to Josephus' chronology, John was not killed until 36 (JA18.5.2)Jesus begins his ministry after his baptism by John and during the rule of Pilate, preaching: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near (Matthew 4:12–17). While the historicity of the gospel accounts is questioned to some extent by some critical scholars and non-Christians, the traditional view states the following chronology for his ministry: Temptation, Sermon on the Mount, Appointment of the Twelve, Miracles, Temple Money Changers, Last Supper, Arrest, Trial, Passion, Crucifixion on Nisan 14th (John 19:14,Mark 14:2, Gospel of Peter) or Nisan 15th (Synoptic Gospels), entombment by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, Resurrection by God and Resurrection appearances of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and other women (Mark 16:9, John 20:10–18), Simon Peter (Luke 24:34), and others, (1Cor.15:3–9), Great Commission, Ascension, Second Coming Prophecy to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, and establishment of the Kingdom of God and the Messianic Age.