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07 Works, Today, March 11th, is Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem’s Day, With Footnotes – #69

Mar 11, 2020

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St Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 638) was born in Damascus to an eminent family, and was well educated in his youth. Discontented with the wisdom of the world, he entered monastic life in the monastery of St Theodosius, where he became the lifelong friend and disciple of John Moschos. Together they visited the monasteries…
Théodore Chassériau, Ali-Ben-Hamet 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 73

Dec 12, 2019

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The Haraktas or Haractas are a group of Berber-speaking tribes living in the Wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi and Batna. During the Ottoman period , the tribe was the largest tribe in eastern Algeria. Constantine passed under Arab-Muslim administration around the year 700, and saw its population gradually convert to Islam. France embarked on the conquest of…