Hieromonk Father Nektarios Terpos was a special personality of the pre-revolutionary years and is rightly characterized as the forerunner of Patrocosmas of Aitolos. He was born in Moschopolis in Northern Epirus probably in 1675. There is insufficient information about his life. We know that he b
The excitement from the victorious battles in the Greco-Italian war, the faith in the final victory, the animation of the relatives who are in pain, the descriptions from the war front, but also the hospitals, dominate the letters sent by the Achaean soldiers to their families, in the late 1940s. Bu
Trains and funerals have a lot in common. The railway, almost from its very beginning, was used to transport bodies. The clatter of wheels also accompanied the last journey of many world leaders. The first funeral trains began to run on November 13, 1854 in England. They carried the dead and acc
The famous chronicler spoke about the pagan beliefs of Poles in amazing detail. He reconstructed the composition of the entire Polish Olimp. But can the news of Jan Długosz be trusted? Jan Długosz, who created in the second half of the 15th century, i.e. at the very end of the Middle Ages, in hi