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Q&A - Newly Canonized and Newly Discovered Saints of the Kyivan Church: An Overview, Alexander Roman
Question and answer session: Dr. Alexander Roman on Newly Canonized and Newly Discovered Saints of the Kyivan Church: An Overview, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 27 February 2018.
- Question #1: Where exactly are the Kyiv Zvirynetsky caves?
- 0:05 Answer #1: They are beside the Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas not far from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- 1:02 Question #2: Has the community venerated any particular monk for sainthood at that particular site?
- 1:14 Answer #2: Yes, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate has glorified all of them, 17 are known. Saint Leonty of Rostov, Saint Menas, Bishop of Polotsk and others were trained there. The Tatars, when they were still pagan, attacked and destroyed it. Saint Sergius and Herman of Valaam monastery in Finland
- 1:59 Question #3: What do you see as the role of critical historiography? How does that intersect with hagiography?
- 1:59 Answer #3: A book has been written on this. The ecumenical breadth of the Kyivan church is interesting, not only sending missionaries throughout the world - China, Alaska, Serbia
- 5:54 Coptic tradition of reciting twelve psalms, troparia and kontakia
- 7:07 The archeologists involved are pious people but work in tandem with the church who help them identify artifacts. For many acheologists trained under the Soviet system, religious artifacts are foreign, so the archeologists directly involve the priests and the church
- 7:52 Saint Clement's body was enshrined in a submerged Greek city. To this day, Orthodox priests don scuba gear to dive with archeologists and pray
- 8:42 Two Greek Corinthian pillars were recovered and enshrined at Anglo-Catholic Church in Philadelphia of Saint Clement.
- 13:42 Saint Job of Pochayiv (Йов Почаївський), Saint Methodius. Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv (Амфілохій Почаївський) was an ethnic Ukrainian would helped members of the underground, Ukrainian Insurgent Army
- 14:42 Amphilochius of Pochayiv was arrested, placed in an insane asylum/prison
- 15:18 One night a woman came to the prison with a letter for the warden. After reading the letter, the warden ordered Amphilochius to be released. The woman was the daughter of Joseph Stalin who experienced a healing at his prayers. These snippets from their lives show the power of the Holy Spirit
- 15:51 Holy Fathers and elders knew the human condition and could prescribe careful spiritual medicine for people
- 18:05 Miracles by Eric Metaxas
- 19:06 Question #4: Can you tell us more about Our Lady of Vladimir, Theotokos of Vladimir (Вишгородська ікона Божої Матері) and can you tell us about how the Soviets approached the head of Saint Clement, how did it survive during the Soviet period?
- 20:00 Answer #4: The Soviet attitude toward relics was that of the Protestant reformation toward Saint relics in England and elsewhere
- 21:19 What the Moscow Scientific Journal did with the relics of Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernihiv. Relics would be handled with liturgical gloves. The Soviets were amazed at what they saw. This converted Soviets who became underground Orthodox Christians and later were martyred for that
- 22:03 Story about how a Russian Communist pilot was about to machine gun monks in the Caucasus. The pilot saw the monks walk on air from one precipice to another and escape. The pilot then flew to Germany, escaped to the United States and wrote about it
- 26:45 Church of the Tithes (Десятинна церква, або Церква Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці)
- 27:15 Miraculous icon of Saint Nicholas the Drensht was kept in Vyshhorod, Ukraine
- 29:09 Question #5: Are these things/events a sign of overzealous attempt to add Saints to miracles without discernment, are we erecting alters to unknown Gods?
- 31:01 Answer #5: That would comprise half of hagiography. The work of the Bollandists debunking so many miracles
- 31:47 All of the Saints of Ukraine are known as Russian saints. In actual fact the Saints of Russia are saints of Ukraine. Why does the church of Russia shave off so many Ukrainian Saints and include them into their calendar? Certainly, Ukrainian Saints would have seen Russia as part of their mission field. They built churches in Russia. The three bar cross is the cross of Kyiv, Ukraine. Many Ukrainians have forgotten about these things and think they are foreign elements. The Russian church uses these traditions and call them Russian. But that doesn't mean that they are in the Muscovite sense
- 37:55 Question #6: How to pray?
- 38:11 Answer #6: We have been cutting down on the amount and quality of our prayer life. Fast (Піст) is not just about not eating, it is about prayer, scriptural reading, meditation, forgiveness, etc.
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies
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The Christianization of Kievan Rus' took place in several stages. In early 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople announced to other Orthodox patriarchs that the Rus', baptised by his bishop, took to Christianity with particular enthusiasm. Photius's attempts at Christianizing the country seem to have entailed no lasting consequences, since the Primary Chronicle and other Slavonic sources describe the tenth-century Rus' as firmly entrenched in paganism. Following the Primary Chronicle, the definitive Christianization of Kievan Rus' dates from the year 988 (the year is disputed), when Vladimir the Great was baptized in Chersonesus and proceeded to baptize his family and people in Kiev. The latter events are traditionally referred to as baptism of Rus' (Russian: Крещение Руси, Ukrainian: Хрещення Русі) in Russian and Ukrainian literature.
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Kievan Rus' (Old East Slavic: Рѹ́сь (Rus' ), Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ (Rus'skaya zemlya), Latin: Rus(s)ia, Ruscia, Ruzzia, Rut(h)enia) was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty. The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors, with Belarus and Russia deriving their names from it.
At its greatest extent, in the mid-11th century, it stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south and from the headwaters of the Vistula in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east, uniting the majority of East Slavic tribes.According to Russian historiography, the first ruler to start uniting East Slavic lands into what has become known as Kievan Rus' was Prince Oleg (882–912). He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east, and he moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Sviatoslav I (died 972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazars. Vladimir the Great (980–1015) introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, extended it to all inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death.The state declined beginning in the late 11th century and during the 12th century, disintegrating into various rival regional powers. It was further weakened by economic factors, such as the collapse of Rus' commercial ties to the Byzantine Empire due to the decline of Constantinople and the accompanying diminution of trade routes through its territory. The state finally fell to the Mongol invasion of the 1240s.
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00:02:10 1 Name
00:03:55 2 History
00:04:04 2.1 Origin
00:07:56 2.2 Invitation of the Varangians
00:10:55 2.3 Foundation of the Kievan state
00:13:19 2.4 Early foreign relations
00:13:28 2.4.1 Volatile steppe politics
00:17:43 2.4.2 Rus'–Byzantine relations
00:23:37 2.4.3 Sviatoslav
00:24:47 2.5 Reign of Vladimir and Christianisation
00:29:09 2.6 Golden age
00:31:17 2.7 Fragmentation and decline
00:36:25 2.7.1 Novgorod Republic
00:37:34 2.7.2 Northeast
00:38:46 2.7.3 Southwest
00:40:59 2.8 Final disintegration
00:42:35 3 Economy
00:43:10 4 Society
00:45:46 5 Historical assessment
00:47:50 6 Foreign relations
00:48:00 6.1 Turco-Mongols
00:50:15 6.2 Byzantine Empire
00:51:22 6.3 Military campaigns
00:51:45 7 Administrative divisions
00:53:27 8 Principal cities
00:54:28 9 Religion
00:57:30 10 See also
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Kievan Rus' (Old East Slavic: Рѹ́сь (Rus' ), Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ (Rus'skaya zemlya), Latin: Rus(s)ia, Ruscia, Ruzzia, Rut(h)enia) was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty. The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors, with Belarus and Russia deriving their names from it.
At its greatest extent, in the mid-11th century, it stretched from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south and from the headwaters of the Vistula in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east, uniting the majority of East Slavic tribes.According to Russian historiography, the first ruler to start uniting East Slavic lands into what has become known as Kievan Rus' was Prince Oleg (882–912). He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east, and he moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Sviatoslav I (died 972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazars. Vladimir the Great (980–1015) introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, extended it to all inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death.The state declined beginning in the late 11th century and during the 12th century, disintegrating into various rival regional powers. It was further weakened by economic factors, such as the collapse of Rus' commercial ties to the Byzantine Empire due to the decline of Constantinople and the accompanying diminution of trade routes through its territory. The state finally fell to the Mongol invasion of the 1240s.
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SUMMARY
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Kievan Rus' (Old East Slavic: Рѹ́сь (Rus' ), Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ (Rus'skaya zemlya), Latin: Rus(s)ia, Ruscia, Ruzzia, Rut(h)enia) was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finnic peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty. The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors, with Belarus and Russia deriving their names from it.
At its greatest extent, in the mid-11th century, it stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south and from the headwaters of the Vistula in the west to the Taman Peninsula in the east, uniting the majority of East Slavic tribes.According to Russian historiography, the first ruler to start uniting East Slavic lands into what has become known as Kievan Rus' was Prince Oleg (882–912). He extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east, and he moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev. Sviatoslav I (died 972) achieved the first major expansion of Kievan Rus' territorial control, fighting a war of conquest against the Khazars. Vladimir the Great (980–1015) introduced Christianity with his own baptism and, by decree, extended it to all inhabitants of Kiev and beyond. Kievan Rus' reached its greatest extent under Yaroslav the Wise (1019–1054); his sons assembled and issued its first written legal code, the Rus' Justice, shortly after his death.The state declined beginning in the late 11th century and during the 12th century, disintegrating into various rival regional powers. It was further weakened by economic factors, such as the collapse of Rus' commercial ties to the Byzantine Empire due to the decline of Constantinople and the accompanying diminution of trade routes through its territory. The state finally fell to the Mongol invasion of the 1240s.