Russian Orthodox Church holidays are marked according to the old Julian calendar, with Christmas falling on Jan. 7, when it is celebrated by seven out of 10 Russians, according to polls cited by Russian media.
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Earlier the Latvian president Andris Berzins more than once stated that the Orthodox Christmas should become a legal holiday in Latvia.
On Saturday, January 3, volunteers of the “Warriors of Life” pro-life movement held a rally near the Mariinskaya municipal hospital on the Liteiny Avenue of St. Petersburg.
The future Patriarch Ilia II (birth name: Irakli Georgievich Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili) was born on January 4, 1933, in the city of Vladikavkaz (now the capital of the autonomous republic of North Ossetia in SW Russia).
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Having cleansed the mind, grief makes it capable of understanding the mysteries of being that are inaccessible to philistines.