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Καλημέρα με την ευλογία του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Ρωσου🙏🙏(Προκοπη Βόρεια Εύβοια)

@ThronesUpdate He did amazing

Happy 91st birthday to Julian Glover, our Grand Maester Pycelle!

This is what happened under the Ottoman Empire. Hanging silently in the National Museum of Serbia is a painting from 1595 that you don’t just look at… it grabs you.💔 You see Bishop Teodor of Vršac. Upside down. Helpless. His body is being torn open. His skin pulled from his flesh. Not a punishment. A message. 😔 Whether it happened exactly like this almost doesn’t matter. This is what power looks like when it wants to break you. In 1594, Banat rose up against the Ottoman Empire. The response was ruthless. Under the Ottoman Empire, leaders were no longer treated as people. They were turned into examples. And that’s what you see here. Not just death. But humiliation. Fear. Control. A warning without words: this is what happens when you resist. 💔 This is not art meant to be beautiful. This is what needed to be remembered. Not to honor — but to never forget. When I saw this, I didn’t just think about him. I thought about us. About centuries under the Ottoman Empire. About a faith that came with a cost. To bow… or be broken. Even in the 16th century, Assyrian clergy were already being executed in Mesopotamia under the Ottoman Empire. And later — Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Maronites. Different times. Same pattern. The methods change. The pain doesn’t. #BishopTeodorOfVršac #Serbia #Christian #Genocide #Serbian #Assyrian #Armenian #Greek #Maronite

Kyrie eleison 🙏🏼 It’s Greek for 'Lord, have mercy', and it’s one of the oldest prayers still used in Christian liturgy today. Filmed in a blessed corner of Vǎleni in Maramureș, Romania. More about it in the comments. 👇🏻

In 1822, Muslims captured two Greek Christian women and attempted to force them to convert to Islam. The women refused. As punishment, they were smeared with honey on their heads and tied up in the open, exposed to the stings of wasps as well as to the abuse of passersby. The wife of Zafeirakis was built into the wall of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki up to her neck. She was left there for days, exposed to the entertainment of the wild mob that gathered to curse her and strike her protruding head with sticks. She did not waver for a moment. Strengthened until her last breath by prayer, she never abandoned her Christian faith. Her martyrdom lasted five days. A passing gypsy woman, seeking to hasten her end, threw a large stone at her head. Thus, the blessed woman delivered her heroic soul into the hands of God, Whom she had never denied. The other Greek Christian woman, Maria, also refused to renounce her faith. For this, Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she was martyred. The historian Eustathios Stougiannakis writes: “The acute venom that diffused into the veins of the martyr from the bites, however, killed her in a sweet lethargy. Praying until the last moment for her executioners, she invoked the Most High and the Virgin.” The lifeless bodies of these holy women were eventually thrown into the sea.

@Excellentsalvic Aaaaaa

Do you believe Jesus is real? A. Absolutely Yes B. No

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🇬🇷 Forever Defending Freedom #March25 #GreekIndependenceDay 📷l.Diakoumakos

@UtdMaI None

You can ONLY bring back one[1]

@TheUnitedWay26 Three sells

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@HomerPavlos I know the Kantantelos wedding story very well

Everyone knows the "Red Wedding" from Game of Thrones, but I will tell you a real Greek story that became known as the "Bloody Wedding" in Crete. In 1570, a revolution broke out in Crete against the Venetians. The leader of the rebels was Kantanoleos. The Venetian governor of Chania, Molinos, seeing that the revolution was spreading across the entire island, wanted to suppress it through trickery. He knew that Kantanoleos’ son was in love with his own daughter. So he pretended that he wanted to cooperate with him “in his just struggle” and that he had no objection to the marriage of their children. The wedding took place, followed by a big feast. Kantanoleos and his men, delighted by this turn of events, drank a lot of wine, got drunk, and fell asleep. Then Molinos called the troops he had hidden nearby to storm in and slaughter the rebels. It was truly a bloody wedding. ** Accrording to George R. R. Martin, the Game of Thrones episode (the Red Wedding) was based on two real events from Scottish history: the "Black Dinner" and the "Massacre of Glencoe".

@JesseBarfield29 Congratulations, wishing you many more! By the way, my father would say you had a cannon for an arm!

I am so blessed that I get to wake up to this beautiful woman every morning! My best friend, and the love of my life! On July 9 we will be married 44 years!👍🏽🙏🏽👊🏽

@NBADracos Bernie

Who is your COTY?

@SportsWithJay0 Benedict Arnold! Won LeBron a championship

@aimonas1 Glad you see it too🤝

Call me delusional But Ray Allen going to the Miami Heat was way worse than Kevin Durant going to the Warriors

@ick_real Yes

If I offered you $3k every week and all you had to do was read a book for at least 4 hours a day, would you take it?

@Godfatherparte2 I’m so sorry for your loss! May he rest in peace!

Happy Birthday to my only son, Scott, in heaven. Lost him to brain cancer in 1990. Today would be birthday #50! Until you lose a child you don’t know what real pain is!💔

Iowa was loaded last time they made the Elite 8. So much talent on the floor this game. My favorite was Mark Wade’s steal late. I knew we had ‘em at that point. 1987 | UNLV vs Iowa | NCAA Basketball Tournament | West Region Elite 8 youtu.be/wPrFXbOeXD8?si… via @YouTube

@81TimBrown @DCarr75 @TheOnlyNation @Raiders @RNR920AM @RNTimes May he rest in peace!

Good evening! @TheOnlyNation @Raiders @RNR920AM @RNTimes it's with great regret i tell you i just received a call from Marissa Robbins informing me that Raiders All Pro center Barrett Robbins passed away overnight. Thankfully, he passed peacefully in his sleep. Please pray for

Day 1989 🇾🇪 #GlazersOut #MUFC #UnitedIsBroken