Category: Christianity
In medieval Europe in general and the Balkans in particular, monasteries were centers of culture and government, economy and education, agriculture and settlement. This is evidenced by the names of places named after monasteries, such as the City of Monastir [...]
Published On: 15/07/2025
The Hesychasm tradition of Orthodox Christianity is a meditative prayer technique reminiscent of Buddhist mantras or "Zikr" practices of the Sufis, involving breathing and repetition of a sentence as a means of reaching God. The tradition reached the Second Bulgarian [...]
Published On: 15/07/2025
When Christianity began to spread in the world, it did not have an orderly hierarchical structure, and each group of believers created its own leadership. Christianity was pluralistic and democratic when the common denominator among its people was faith, spirituality [...]
Published On: 13/07/2025
In 852 AD, Khan Boris comes to power in the new Bulgarian kingdom. These were days of change in Byzantium, which managed to end the civil war and embark on a new path of prosperity and expansion under the leadership [...]
Published On: 13/07/2025
a different way, possessing Christian apocryphal literature and claiming that Jesus taught a secret doctrine to a select few of his close disciples. In Bulgaria, starting from the 10th century until the 14th century, the "Bogomil" heresy flourished, continuing the [...]
Published On: 13/07/2025
