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perhaps st. joseph and his followers were foreseeing a danger that could also spread to russia if it were not stopped. and this is probably how the conflict of the possessors and non - possessors became relevant in the struggle against heresy in the still relatively isolated northern realm. st. nilus’s disciple, vassian kosoi, came out for the confiscation of church properties and distribution of them to the people, something that prince ivan iii was inclined to support. the possessors, with st. joseph of volokolamsk at the head, stood for the principle of the immunity of church and monastery properties. they considered that church piety and tradition should have the first place, and confirmed the divine origin of princely authority and its priority in secular and ecclesiastical affairs, which ultimately assured their victory. the possessors convinced ivan iii to refuse support to the non - possessors as opponents of the strengthening of governmental authority. the council of 1503 condemned the non - possessors and supported the preservation of church landowning with the subjection of the church itself to the moscow princes. but it was not until the council of 1531 that the non - possessors suffered their final defeat .
this is a drawing of all the main characters from' the possessors saga' which is a six story series that i wrote. the supreme trinity are from these stories as well .
can extend spirits similar to astral forms and possess humans. however, should the human is using his own astral form, then the possessors cannot possess an
empty shell
. they have other mental powers .
the main ecclesiastical figures grappling with this problem in rus’ were: st. nilus of sora, the leader of the so - called “non - possessors”, and st. joseph of volokolamsk, the leader of the “possessors”, also called the “josephites”. it would be wrong to say that either of them set out to start conflicting movements. each was rather living out his own monastic life to the best of his ability, and in accordance with the specific needs of their respective monastic communities and the lay communities around them .
the church has not answered our question, and yet it has. nilus of sora, maxim the greek, and joseph of volokolamsk have all been canonized saints. furthermore, both spiritual leaders—st. joseph of volokolamsk, of the “possessors”, and st. nilus of sora of the “non - possessors”, left their own spiritual, social, and monastic legacies in russian orthodox church tradition. st. joseph’s most well known disciples were also canonized: st. macarius, metropolitan of moscow ,
a few skeletons in the closets of a fictional
first family of france
are given a perfunctory rattling in
the possessors ,
a dignified french film, directed by denys de la patelliere, which came to the paris on monday. view full article in timesmachine »
the protestant reformation with its both anti - hesychastic and anti - monastery vein would have essentially affected both the possessors and the non - possessors had it taken root in russia. it is possible to talk to (or persecute) a heretic if he openly admits his beliefs. but if he is bent on taking control of an orthodox country by pretending to be orthodox, he becomes a slippery contingent, a fifth column. while the inquisition against the “judaizers” in spain was bound up with jews who had not sincerely but rather by coercion converted to christianity, the “judaizer” heresy in russia had little to do with actual ethnic jews .
i first read the possessors in august, 1980 and i really enjoyed rereading it now. it takes place at an alpine skiing chalet, an isolated hotel run by an english couple. an avalanche cuts the chalet off from the surrounding world and the completely isolated guests must endure a nightmare. one by one they become something inhuman and menacing .
the ahrc - funded research project ’prominent possessors’ is housed in the linguistics department at soas under the direction of professor irina nikolaeva as principal investigator. the project will run from october 2015 to september 2018 and include a post - doctoral research fellow andrás bárány and co - investigators at the university of surrey, professor greville corbett and dr. oliver bond (project page at the university of surrey) .
the persecuted church produced many martyrs, and separated the wheat from the chaff .
of the country first occupied by the europeans in this portion of the continent .
okay, so it' s a well - worn scenario. trapped (in this case by an avalanche) and facing something nasty which picks off the group one by one. john christopher has always been a favourite sci - fi author of mine and i think this book illustrates why. as the situation develops the realisation amongst the protagonists that something dangerous is unfolding lags tantalisingly behind the reality that the human race is truly under threat. small talk, flirting, alcohol, disputes - all the minutiae of human interaction continue almost to the end and in the meantime the possessors draw their plans to infect the rest. i have two minor disappointments. first, the denouement is a slight fizzle - out. it could have been drawn right to the wire. the second is that i do seriously think that this book would work better if we were not told by the narrator about the origin of the possessors, but were left to work it out for ourselves, in the way the characters trapped by the avalanche have to. but an excellent read !
ο τζον κρίστοφερ, συγγραφέας του βιβλίου, είναι κυρίως γνωστός στο εξωτερικό για τα βιβλία της εφηβικής σειράς επιστημονικής φαντασίας the tripods (η τριλογία έχει μεταφραστεί στα ελληνικά), της εφηβικής σειράς φαντασίας the sword of the spirits και του δυστοπικού / μετά - αποκαλυπτικού the death of grass, που είναι από τα κλασικότερα βιβλία της κατηγορίας του. το οι δαίμονες, που ο τίτλος στο πρωτότυπο είναι the possessors και όχι the devils, όπως λανθασμένα αναφέρεται στην έκδοση του κάκτου, δεν ε
at the council in moscow in 1503, st. nilus insisted that monasteries should limit themselves to their own necessities and not acquire large agricultural territories with villages and peasants. (this was during the time of serfdom in russia, when peasants were unpaid workers attached to the land .) the example of st. sergius and many other ancient russian ascetics spoke in favor of this. the “non - possessors” highly valued christian education and preserved fidelity to the ancient christian and byzantine heritage and the spirituality of st. sergius better than the josephites .
the non - possessors’ inward - looking asceticism naturally set them against any violent means of dealing with sectarians, and they favored education and enlightenment. they insisted that heretics must not be tortured or executed but rather persuaded by knowledge and example to come to the true faith. but when the “judaizer” heresy began to penetrate the prince’s court and threatened to influence policy, st. joseph’s followers took a more head - on approach .
the principle of the possessors prevailed in russia until the time of empress catherine the great, who reigned from 1762–1796. although the german - born empress catherine accepted orthodoxy as required, her mentality concerning monasteries remained decidedly western and protestant, or more precisely, irreligious. under her leadership, the church’s lands were confiscated, and the budget of both monasteries and bishoprics were taken under government control. endowments from the government replaced income from privately held lands. the endowments were often much less than the original intended amount. she closed 569 out of 954 monasteries and only 161 got government money. only 400, 000 rubles of church wealth was paid back .
i’ve read a number of john christopher’s works over the years; apart from the wonderful tripod series of books, i have thoroughly enjoyed a wrinkle in the skin, and the death of grass. i was delighted to get hold of a copy of this book, the possessors. first published in 1964 this book is, like all christopher’s works, classic sci - fi. it’s about people and their reactions to circumstances beyond the norm, and the breakdown of individuals and society, and the ‘human’ response to ‘alien’ influences of whatever kind. this book takes a great perspective on the story, with chapters being written from the perspective of an individual character in the story. as the cast of the story is small, this allows the reader to ‘see’ the action through the characters and emotional and logical responses of individuals who are being directly affected. the story is set high in the swiss mountains. after a prologue about “the possessors” we move directly to earth, where a group is gathered for a skiing holiday at a privately owned lodge. the two owners and their guests are the only characters in the book. when a tragic accident appears to befall one of the guests, they are all shocked and horrified. but a snowstorm has blocked them off from the outside world, and it may be several days before they can get assistance or make any contact with anybody else. and in the meantime, something doesn’t feel right about the guest’s death … classic, spooky, edge of the seat psychological stuff, this is a great read, and thoroughly recommended to anyone who enjoys christopher’s works, or just likes classic sci - fi .
the possessors were an alien race from another dimension discovered by dr. strange. they had possessed parts of the population of a village in the bavarian alps. when they discovered that strange could expose them, one of them tried to possess him, but he was not able to control strange' s body. capturing the alien, strange learned that they had entered the village as a test to see if the could take control of the entire planet. after strange defeated their leader in a contest of mental strength, they returned to their own dimension; then strange blocked their access to earth. [ 1 ]
† december 31, 1563. st. macarius of moscow presided over a great number of important decisions concerning russian ecclesiastical practice, and authored numerous important works. the stoglav council was called during his time as metropolitan. st. macarius sided with the possessors in council debates on the subject, but was himself known by all to be a great ascetic. he also goes down in history as the spiritual father of ivan the terrible in the latter' s early, pious days. it is recorded that st. macarius foresaw tsar ivan vasileivich’s victory in kazan, but also the terrible bloodshed to come in his reign—the oprichnina formed after st. macarius’s death .
the demon legion possessed the body of katy milner and attacked the ghost rider. it was defeated by the ghost rider and daimon hellstrom. [ 2 ]
also supporting the non - possessors was st. maxim the greek (1480 - 1556), who was invited to moscow from vatopedi monastery on mt. athos to translate and correct ecclesiasticl texts. maxim the greek (michael tivoulis in the world) was a learned monk who received his education from the italian humanists, and became friends with the scholastic girolamo savonarola, a dominican friar. the dominicans, like the franciscans, were also trying at that time to reform the church in the west with a return the gospel poverty. savonarola was a vocal critic of the excesses of the clergy at the time, and was eventually put to death. michael became an ascetic under his influence, then left italy for mt. athos, where he was given the monastic name maxim. maxim’s formation made him naturally lean toward st. nilus’s school. he also suffered persecution for his convictions, and was imprisoned at volokolamsk monastery, where he nevertheless fruitfully produced many instructive texts .
the possessor lord showed the ability to create a personal shield around his body .
do you absolutely love that feeling that you have found an undiscovered gem? john christopher is just such a writer, and a british one at that, a diamond in the rough. at first his writing seems ordinary and unimpressive, but within three pages you are hooked. the possessors isn' t the best of his books and deals with what is now an old idea - an alien being infecting and controlling people - but as the book progresses and the people staying in the snowbound holiday chalet in switzerland start getting picked off one by one you can' t help but listen to the howling of the wind outside, or look out the window to see if a face with dead eyes is staring back in at you. draw the curtains, extinguish all the lights except one reading lamp and delight in this good old fashion chiller .
the french writer was one of the last links with de gaulle' s government of exiled fugitives from the vichy administration .
well - written sci - fi potboilers by authors like john christopher, john wyndham or stephen king are my literary comfort food. sometimes you’ve had enough of multi - generational american family sagas or wwii - set booker nominees. sometimes you’re a bit overstuffed with beautiful prose that effortlessly reveals deep aspects of the human condition. sometimes you just want to read an old paperback thriller about an isolated group of people facing an alien threat. the possessors is set in a british - run ho
these secular reforms also had far - reaching effects, and inexorably led to the one of the cruelest persecutions of all times against the church—the bolshevik revolution and its ideology of militant atheism, because the constructive interrelationship between clergy and the laity had been undermined .
the st. nilus of sora hermitage - - made a psychiatric institution by the communists .
he reasoned that in order to do this, the monasteries must be strong and wealthy, that their lands should be vast and in excellent condition, so that the suffering population would always find in these monasteries both spiritual support and material help. for their tenacious and systematic work for the creation of wealthy and strong monasteries, st. joseph and his followers received the name, “possessors” (or more accurately, “acquirers”). in the life of st. joseph we read, for example, that during a famine his monastery fed up to seven thousand of the needy. st. joseph himself cherished the opportunity to relieve the suffering of the poor, and considered that god visited his monastery in the guise of the needy. he rebuked any monks who feared for themselves and who thought that the monastery would soon lack what it needed to feed its own monks. st. joseph founded schools for homeless children, almshouses for the aged, shelters and hospitals for the sick and impoverished. he was stern and authoritative with regard to secular landowners who did not help the poor during a famine that threatened their very lives, and he exhorted the prince to live in accordance with god’s will and keep the benefit of all his subjects, from the little to the great, first in mind. st. joseph and his disciples therefore earned respect and trust from all different levels of russian society. he taught that the country’s leader commits a grave sin if he does not think about the good of the church and the welfare of the people .
as head of the academie francaise, the sacred custodian of the french language, he approved the passage of scores of english words - - such as
tweed
and the golf term
birdie
- - into french .
les rois maudits (the accursed kings) was one of the few works of contemporary western literature to be published in russian in the soviet union in the 1960s. thus, the playful, arch - conservative maurice druon, not the dour and radical jean - paul sartre or albert camus, became the voice of france to russian bibliophiles, including the young vladimir putin .
a growing body of evidence demonstrates that in some languages the possessor which remains internal to the possessive construction has a greater deal of syntactic' prominence' than typically encountered. contrary to what is usually expected, when both possessor and possessed are part of the same syntactic phrase, the grammatical properties of the possessor (and not the possessed item) are relevant for syntactic processes such as agreement with the verb. another relevant syntactic process is switch - reference: a special type of marking indicating that the subjects of the two clauses refer to the same entity. it typically targets the head of the possessive phrase, but in some languages switch - reference marking indicates that the possessor within the subject phrase of one clause is interpreted as referring to the same entity as the subject of the second clause .
it is clear that st. nilus of sora and the non - possessors were the more crystal - pure examples of gospel guilelessness, monastic dispassion and poverty. his diligent labors in the field of orthodox literature were necessary and of enduring value. but it is also clear that st. nilus would not have been able to counteract this new, covertly - spreading tendency from his enclosure in northern wilds of sora. st. joseph of volokolamsk, located not far from moscow, was in the right position to play this decisive role in russian history. some say that st. joseph’s view of the untouchable authority of princes may have led to the excesses of ivan the terrible and his “ophrichnina”, but this is hard if not impossible to prove. ivan the terrible was a sick man, and he is not the only tyrant in history, before or after st. joseph of volokolamsk .
although a passionate conservative, obsessed with the dangers of cultural decline, druon was not utterly blind to modernity. he praised the
poetry
of the french rapper mc solaar and created an internet site for the académie, the institution which has defended the french language, and its own prerogatives, since the late - 17th century .
historians diverge on how far the song ever became a popular ditty with the soldiers of the maquis, but the whispering of its first words
amis, entends - tu
became an unofficial password of the resistance in 1943 - 44 .
the closure of seminaries attached to monasteries made it very difficult to provide quality education to the clergy .
in southern france, the spread of catharism, which also had its roots in the bogomils, instigated the use of inquisition as a means of rooting out heresy. as we know, this escalated into the spanish inquisition, which took the practice to an infamous extreme .
in the 1930’s, the russian and ukrainian heartland was suffering a terrible famine; most evidence shows that it was man - made by the soviet government to force collectivization. church property, including communion chalices and other church utensils were confiscated under the pretext of relieving the famine. the church was already active in charitable assistance, but indeed feeding the people was not what the authorities were after. they needed to sell these sacred valuables to western buyers to finance communist policies. thus, government money gained from liquidated church assets rarely goes to the poor, and the church is a better distributor of these assets than the state .
as a successful post - war literary figure, druon' s best known work was the six volumes of les rois maudits, a saga of the poisonous, political and romantic intrigues at the french and english courts just before the hundred years' war. like the 19th century historical novelist alexandre dumas, druon was partially the author and partially the editor, using a
workshop
of writers to pen the mammoth series from 1955 to 1960. unlike dumas, druon gave generous credit to the others' efforts .
maurice druon' s best - known achievement for de gaulle' s free french was to have written in 1943, jointly with his uncle joseph kessel, the words of the
chant des partisans
, the would - be
la marseillaise
of the french resistance movement (
friend, do you hear the flight of the black crows over our plains ?
). the song was frequently broadcast to france by the bbc during the war and has been recorded since by, amongst others, johnny hallyday .
mr. druon remained a lifelong defender of all things british, in 1972 taking charge of the government campaign to persuade the french to let britain into the european economic community .
and a possessed (possessum, possessee), for the expression of which there is a diverse inventory of means in the language systems of the world (broschart 2001) .
archbishop gennady of novgorod set out to stop these intrigues that would be so damaging to the nation and the church if allowed to spread. he began sending letters to other hierarchs warning them of the danger, and finally succeeded in calling a council and having the novgorod judaizers condemned. russia did not take the lead of the spanish inquisitors at that time—the heretics were imprisoned and not executed. but the spread of the heresy to the prince’s court proved to be beyond archbishop gennady’s powers. his main argument was that schools should be opened in moscow to raise the education level of the faithful, for the learned foreigners were usually able to out - talk the simple orthodox believers who mainly followed their hearts, and thus succeeded in bringing some to doubt. but archbishop gennady was not successful in this endeavor, due to political inertia .
it began in novgorod, where some of the clergy had fallen under the influence of a doctor named zachary and his followers, two members of the court of the lithuanian - russian prince alexander olelkovina, who had arrived from the west. these new arrivals followed a modernized form of judaism, and were highly educated. flattered by the attention of erudite foreigners, and disillusioned by the ignorant state of much of the russian orthodox clergy at the time, an unorganized conspiracy arose in novgorod, which, although put down by prince ivan iii from moscow, continued to act through intrigue until it reached the kremlin. eventually two of the conspirators were able to gain favor with the prince by not revealing their entire abandonment of orthodoxy; they had in fact denied the divinity of jesus christ, blasphemed his name, mocked the veneration of the mother of god, christian spiritual practices, monasticism, and icons, and accused the orthodox hierarchs and monks of barbarity. joining them in moscow was the prince’s scribe, feodor kuritsyn, a foreign minister who had brought back from hungary a doctrine which denied the orthodox teaching on the holy trinity .
of real estate, personal property, affected by the implementation of the project
northern boulevard and rehabilitation of tirana river, phase i of
, in the municipality of tirana .
once the soviet government fell and the church was again free, believers rushed to rebuild what they had lost. had they not lost it, their resources could have gone to other charitable causes. that the people rushed to rebuild, first of all, their beloved churches can be taken as proof of christ’s words that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church, which ever exists in the hearts of the faithful .
in 1980, before he became the academy secretary, he fought a vituperative battle to prevent the novelist marguerite yourcenar from becoming the first woman to wear the traditional green uniform of france' s literary warriors. if she were elected, he claimed, the academy would fill up with women
doing their knitting
.
this isolated tale of an alien presence settling in among a group of snowbound travelers is notable for its setting and the unease that develops between the strangers trapped together. clearly an influence for the notably bad film
the crawling eye
, which borrows heavily from the book but replaces the body - hopping outsider with ridiculous eye monsters. a good escapist read with some strong characterisation .
therefore, the orthodox church apparently has not chosen one saint’s movement over the other, and some sources show that st. nilus and st. joseph held each other in the highest esteem .
the conservative newspaper le figaro devoted a two - page spread to the
lord of literature ,
and the liberal liberation painted him as an
old reactionary
redeemed by his youthful exploits .
after the war, he built a rich career as a writer of historical novels, including
les rois maudits ,
or
the accursed kings ,
and won france' s top literary prize, the goncourt, in 1948. he served as culture minister in the 1970s and as head of the prestigious academie francaise .
if the church had not accumulated wealth, there would have been no property to seize, and no stumbling block to the covetous .
of a sumptuous copy of the ancestral
poetical works
( printed at the family expense, and long ago withdrawn from an inhospitable market) was a rare frayser indeed, there was an illogical indisposition to honor the great deceased in the person of his spiritual successor .
a book i read sometime in the past 10 years. i' m adding it to goodreads to remember it. one of the scariest science fiction books i have ever read. the blurb for the book here in goodreads says it all. some of the scary stuff might be predictable, and then again, it might not be .
under the conditions existing in rus’ at the time, monasteries were often granted large agricultural territories, along with the peasants living on these lands, so that the monasteries could be self - sufficient. as a result, the monasteries came to possess such wealth as to exceed many times over what was reasonably necessary to the monks’ own life. this was happening already during the time of st. savva of storozhev and st. cyril of white lake, but these abbots were able to combine their own personal sanctity with the economic success of their monasteries. these capable economic administrators and strong organizers had the means to support the impoverished strata of the population, and they highly valued these possibilities. meanwhile, those who inclined more to the spirit of st. sergius’ poverty looked on in dismay, and preferred to refrain from any property ownership—individual or collective. a conflict arose between the two sides, which had far - reaching consequences for the entire russian church .
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in switzerland, too, monasteries came under threat. in 1523 the government of the city - state of zurich pressured nuns to leave their monasteries and marry, and followed up the next year by dissolving all monasteries in its territory, under the pretext of using their revenues to fund education and help the poor. the city of basel followed suit in 1529 and geneva adopted the same policy in 1530. an attempt was also made in 1530 to dissolve the famous abbey of st. gall, which was a state of the holy roman empire in its own right, but this failed, and st. gall has survived .
the lack of religious education did not eradicate religion, but it did enable the spread of anti - social religious movements—interest in the occult grew in the soviet union as people sought for something outside the material world. moral standards declined across society, and some problems that developed under communist rule have not been easy to solve, to put it mildly .
st. joseph of volokolamsk was the disciple of a disciple of st. sergius, st. paphnuty of borov (†1477). st. joseph was an austere and strict abbot, a warrior for the good of the church, the orthodox people, and the country. he was destined to labor during this complex time, when the spiritual foundations laid by st. sergius for the coenobitic monastic life had weakened. st. joseph opposed this tendency through strict discipline and order. his main written work ,
druon, the illegitimate son of a russian - jewish actor, was best known in his later years as a defender of the purity of the french language (amongst other lost causes). despite his vociferous defence of french, he kept from his wartime experiences on de gaulle' s staff in london an uncompromising love of britain and of the english language. in his 80s, he wrote essays arguing that the global spread of approximate english was not just a menace to the
language of molière
. it also threatened to destroy the beauty of the
language of shakespeare
.
the late fifteenth, early sixteenth centuries saw a conflict arise in russia that had some parallels to events and movements in western christianity of the time. as the spanish inquisition was in full swing against insincere converts to christianity, and the dissolution of monastery property was successfully killing catholic monasticism in some northern european countries, the existential question of “to have or not to have” was reaching like an aftershock the comparatively sheltered religious life of orthodox russia. those asking this question in the realm of rus’ found themselves also inescapably defending their own views on the problem of insincere christians and their role in politics .
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† december 4, 1563. st. gurius was a nobleman from radonezh, who became a monk in the monastery of volokolamsk and was eventually made its abbot. after his transfer to selizharov monastery he was appointed the archbishop of the newly - formed kazan diocese. st. gurius was very active there in the formation christian educational institutions. he raised the spiritual level of the orthodox, and brought many pagans to the faith. he was also successful in bringing a large number of local muslim tatars voluntarily into the orthodox church. in 1595, st. gurius’s relics were found exuding myrrh, and many miracles were wrought by them .
pugnacious, but charming, to the end, druon fought another high profile battle in 2003. he was determined to keep the former president valéry giscard d' estaing out of the academy. druon had never forgiven giscard, or jacques chirac, for destroying the old gaullist movement in 1974. he described giscard d' estaing as a
brutus, without the greatness, but with the vanity .
it was druon' s last battle and, needless to say, he lost it .
but her anti - monastic policies were not limited to material wealth—under catherine, orthodox religious education also suffered greatly. by 1786 catherine had excluded all religion and clerical studies programs from lay education. by separating the public interests from those of the church, catherine began a secularization of the day - to - day workings of russia. she transformed the clergy from a group that wielded great power over the russian government and its people to a segregated community forced to depend on the state for compensation .
it all started when a group of british vacations was cut off by an avalanche. the skiing chalet up in the mountains seemed a good place to hold out for a hwile, but then the little boy mysteriously died... or appeared to. and in the impenetrable swiss alps something alien stirred ...
a science fiction novel that is really frightening. first - rate entertainment .
—the spectat
it all started when a group of british vacations was cut off by an avalanche. the skiing chalet up in the mountains seemed a good place to hold out for a hwile, but then the little boy mysteriously died... or appeared to. and in the impenetrable swiss alps something alien stirred ...
a science fiction novel that is really frightening. first - rate entertainment .
—the spectator
it affected everyone from the queen mother to my chauffeur, who in the middle of an air raid would still stop at the traffic lights! one day my secretary came and said,' i' m sorry i am late. my house was bombed last night.' it was business as usual amid the rubble !
sam youd was born in huyton, lancashire in april 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm. as a boy, he was devoted to the newly emergent genre of science - fiction: ‘in the early thirties, ’ he later wrote, ‘we knew just enough about the solar system for its possibilities to be a magnet to the imagination. ’ over the following decades, his imagination flowed from science - fiction into general novels, cric
it all started when a group of british vacations was cut off by an avalanche. the skiing chalet up in the mountains seemed a good place to hold out for a hwile, but then the little boy mysteriously died... or appeared to. and in the impenetrable swiss alps something alien stirred ...
a science fiction novel that is really frightening. first - rate entertainment .
& # 151; the spectator
both of these schools of monastic practice lead us back to the work of the “abbot of all russia”, st. sergius of radonezh (†1392). st. sergius’ monastery grew around him, due to his hard - working, strict monastic discipline. this diligent spiritual and physical labor under severe conditions caused the monks to develop a well - functioning monastery economy in order to provide for the needs of a large brotherhood. the monks owned no property individually, but their collective labor, along with st. sergius’s own good reputation among the laity, built the foundation of what is now the great holy trinity - st. sergius lavra—a monastery incalculably dear to orthodox russian christians, and which still thrives today .
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is a bright testimony to his love of god and his most pure mother, and his zeal for the orthodox faith. he was a man of great administrative talent, but at the same time, a leader of a monastic army in an uncompromising spiritual battle with sin. this battle is not for the weak or disorganized, but for the resolute and courageous; for those who are ready to give all their time and energy to labor and prayer. the army of christ should be disciplined, prepared, decorous, well - equipped and provided with everything needed. it should, he considered, be a reliable support and protector of the struggling peasantry, and do everything it can to strengthen the sovereign authority in the country .
but we have no comment from st. maxim or st. nilus on the tendency taking hold at the time in northern europe and england to dissolve monasteries altogether and confiscate their property. there were many wars being fought in europe, and revenues needed to be found. an article in wikipedia on the dissolution of the monasteries in england and europe describes how this happened :
i lived the life of londoners - - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the british people. i do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal ,
he said .
ο τζον κρίστοφερ, συγγραφέας του βιβλίου, είναι κυρίως γνωστός στο εξωτερικό για τα βιβλία της εφηβικής σειράς επιστημονικής φαντασίας the tripods (η τριλογία έχει μεταφραστεί στα ελληνικά), της εφηβικής σειράς φαντασίας the sword of the spirits και του δυστοπικού / μετά - αποκαλυπτικού the death of grass, που είναι από τα κλασικότερα βιβλία της κατηγορίας του. το οι δαίμονες, που ο τίτλος στο πρωτότυπο είναι the possessors και όχι the devils, όπως λανθασμένα αναφέρεται στην έκδοση του κάκτου, δεν είναι ούτε από τα γνωστότερα ούτε από τα καλύτερά του βιβλία, παρόλ' αυτά εμένα με άφησε αρκετά ευχαριστημένο. σ' ένα μικρό ξενοδοχείο στις ελβετικές άλπεις, κάτι παράξενο συμβαίνει. μια μέρα ένα μικρό παιδί ανακαλύπτει μια παράξενη μικρή γαλάζια μπάλα και ξαφνικά πέφτει σε κώμα. και το ίδιο ξαφνικά, το βράδυ, ανακτά τις αισθήσεις του και εξαφανίζεται μες στο χιόνι. και μετά έρχεται σ' επαφή με την μητέρα του. τώρα οι δυο τους έχουν αλλάξει. και όποιος έρχεται σ' επαφή μαζί τους παθαίνει το ίδιο. ο αριθμός των
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ανθρώπων θ' αρχίσει να μεγαλώνει και οι εναπομείναντες φυσιολογικοί θα πρέπει να υπερασπιστούν τις ζωές τους με κάθε κόστος... μην περιμένετε σπλάτερ σκηνές και άφθονη δράση, να περιμένετε όμως μια αρκετά ενδιαφέρουσα ιστορία με καλή γραφή, κλειστοφοβική ατμόσφαιρα, αρκετό σασπένς και ένα όχι τόσο ευχάριστο τέλος. α, και δεν θα σας πάρει πολύ ώρα, είναι πολύ ευκολοδιάβαστο, εγώ μέσα σε τρεισήμισι συνεχόμενες ώρες το τελείωσα. η ελληνική μετάφραση μου φάνηκε ικανοποιητική, αν και έδειχνε βέβαια τα χρονάκια της .
as perpetual secretary of the académie française from 1985 to 1999, he was at the forefront of battles to save french from anglicism, neologisms and revised spelling. he also defended the académie' s tradition of interminable labour on its never - finished dictionary. asked in television interviews how the dictionary was going, he would say with a smile :
ça progresse, ça progresse
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, i set off at full speed to find a secure nook where i could throw myself down on the grass, and let loose the absurd laughter that was dangerously bottled up within me; but even before i do that it behoves me if possible to vindicate my sanity to the reader .
druon, who never married, lost the battle and even came to support other female candidates. he handed over the secretaryship to one of them, hélène carrère d' encausse, in 1999 .
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under the communists, not only the monasteries, but religion in general was liquidated. this harsh historical experience proved several things pertaining to our question, “to have, or not to have? ”
metropolitan daniel had been a monk of the monastery in volokolamsk. he was elected abbot by the brothers of that monastery after st. joseph’s repose, and later appointed metropolitan of moscow. his time as metropolitan is not favorably remembered: he is seen as overly ambitious and too quick to take up the methods of the spanish inquisition to deal with ideological opponents. however st. joseph may have dealt with heretics, he would hardly have approved of persecuting the non - possessor monks. metropolitan daniel rapidly lost popularity after this and other political moves, and was retired to the monastery of volokolamsk .
i really liked this book. the pace is good and once it gets going you' re kept in suspense right up until the end. i found it quite similar to the midwich cuckoos (not a bad thing) so if you liked that then you' ll probably enjoy this (and vice versa). i only regret not taking it with me to the alps to read on holiday !
news of these events did not take long to spread among protestant - minded (and acquisitive) rulers across europe, and some, particularly in scandinavia, moved very quickly. in sweden in 1527 king gustavus vasa secured an edict of the diet allowing him to confiscate any monastic lands he deemed necessary to increase royal revenues; and to force the return of donated properties to the descendants of those who had donated them. in one fell swoop, gustav gained large estates and a company of diehard supporters. the swedish monasteries and convents were simultaneously deprived of their livelihoods, with the result that some collapsed immediately, while others lingered on for a few decades before persecution and further confiscations finally caused them all to disappear by 1580. in denmark, king frederick i of denmark made his grab in 1528, confiscating 15 of the houses of the wealthiest monasteries and convents. further laws under his successor over the course of the 1530s banned the friars, and forced monks and nuns to transfer title to their houses to the crown, which passed them out to supportive nobles, who were soon found enjoying the fruits of former monastic lands. danish monastic life was to vanish in a way identical to that of sweden .
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i read this book as a teenager and was immediately hooked, love its old fashioned setting and even if the idea has been used a fair bit the book is paced well, beautifully written, great characters and there is a sense of fear and the possibility it might go wrong. i had empathy with the alien presence as well, its desperation for its species to survive informed all its action. i am rereading for the third time and recommend this and all his other books, i am definitely a fan .
thus, in russia two camps were forming—one more connected with the powerful of this world, poised to influence them for the greater good of an orthodox land, and the other more inward - looking, wary of owning any property at all—never mind peasants—as incompatible with monasticism, and loathe to get involved in politics .
a follower of st. joseph, would later persecute the non - possessor monasteries, even confiscating them—a rather ironic turn of events considering their extremes of non - possessiveness. however, for all the moral attractiveness of non - possessiveness it has to be admitted that if taken to an extreme it could threaten the normal functioning of the ecclesiastical and civil organism under real - life historical conditions. land holdings allowed the monasteries to conduct broad pastoral, charitable, and enlightenment activities, and were a beneficial influence upon life in society .
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st. maxim the greek, a non - possessor. he was imprisoned in volokolamsk under metropolitan daniel .
furthermore, acquisitiveness can be a holy thing—it depends upon the acquisition. st. seraphim of sarov, for example, was a diligent acquirer of the holy spirit, and thousands have been saved because of it .
the song, which was dropped from allied aircraft during world war ii, passed secretly through occupied france, sung at resistance meetings and in nazi prison cells, was common knowledge by the time france was liberated in 1944 .
have superior chattel rights to those of the finder unless those rights were acquired illegally, such as by stealing .
possessor. he who holds, detains or enjoys a thing, either by himself or his agent, which he claims as his own. 2. in general the possessor of personal chattels is presumed to be the owner; and in case of real estate he has a right to receive the profits, until a title adverse to his possession has been established, leaving him subject to an action for the mesne profits. (q. v. )
in 1521, martin luther had published' de votis monasticis' (' on the monastic vows'), a treatise which declared that the monastic life had no scriptural basis, was pointless and also actively immoral in that it was not compatible with the true spirit of christianity. luther also declared that monastic vows were meaningless and that no one should feel bound by them. luther, a one - time augustinian friar, found some comfort when these views had a dramatic effect: a special meeting of the german province of his order held the same year accepted them and voted that henceforth every member of the regular clergy should be free to renounce their vows, resign their offices and get married. at luther' s home monastery in wittenberg all the friars, save one, did so .
quite old fashioned in execution but very contemporary in subject matter considering its similarities to the present day obsession with zombies and walking dead. a group of mainly english middle class professionals are trapped in a ski lodge. most of them have interesting back stories, but naturally the only working class character has a chip on his shoulder and not much in the way of a personal history, although his american wife has a very moving one. nonetheless, it' s very readable and still has the power to, if not scare you, certainly make you nervous about those odd noises you hear at night. once the story got going i was gripped to the end. i' ve read a few of john christopher' s books and although the characters in this one seem dated now (think jerry and margo from the good life) he' s a good enough writer for that not to matter. recommended .
of the once common but then abandoned names - - edith gladys theodora pearl khaki - wackies leotarded hipsters - - names given over to modest markers thousands of stone loaves splintering sunlight their chiseled dates spanning a century influenza polio hiv lynchings world wars the sputtering progress of democracy - - your true names waver like heat thumbing asphalt like history the lives of others.
the possessors ( french : les grandes familles ) is a 1958 french drama film directed by denys de la patellière , starring jean gabin , pierre brasseur , bernard blier , jean desailly , françoise christophe and annie ducaux . it tells the story of an industrial and newspaper tycoon and his sons . the screenplay is based on the novel les grandes familles by maurice druon , which won the prix goncourt in 1948 . the film recorded 4,042,041 admissions in france . gabin received the 1959 david di donatello for best foreign actor . 
the possessors (french: les grandes familles) is a 1958 french drama film directed by denys de la patellière, starring jean gabin, pierre brasseur, bernard blier, jean desailly, françoise christophe and annie ducaux. it tells the story of an industrial and newspaper tycoon and his sons. the screenplay is based on the novel les grandes familles by maurice druon, which won the prix goncourt in 1948. the film recorded 4,042,041 admissions in france. gabin received the 1959 david di donatello for best foreign actor.
the possessors (french: les grandes familles) is a 1958 french drama film directed by denys de la patellière, starring jean gabin, pierre brasseur, bernard blier, jean desailly, françoise christophe and annie ducaux. it tells the story of an industrial and newspaper tycoon and his sons. the screenplay is based on the novel les grandes familles by maurice druon, which won the prix goncourt in 1948. the film recorded 4,042,041 admissions in france. gabin received the 1959 david di donatello for best foreign actor.