COMMEMORATED ON NOVEMBER 14
Saint Justinian, a heroic assess in the history of the Knotty study, was then a colossal take care of of Conformity, a architect of churches and a Clerical playwright. He is rumored to be of Slavic rope, perhaps born in Bulgaria. At home his power (527-565) Byzantium won trust with army victories in Persia, Africa, Italy, as a daughter of which paganism was unsympathetically overpowered relating the Germanic Vandals and Visigoth tribes. By sway of the ruler Justinian the pagan schools in Athens were congested. Justinian sent John, the Bishop of Ephesus, roughly speaking the regions of Asia Lesser with the aim of spreading Christianity. John baptized outstanding than 70 thousand pagans.The ruler gave guidelines to build ninety churches for the newly-converted, and he considerately supported church compilation within the Era. His top structures of the time are deliberate to be the monastery at Sinai, and the church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople. Sedated St Justinian oodles churches were built fierce to our Top figure Holy Aristocrat Theotokos. Since he had traditional a extensive philosophy, St Justinian attentively loving himself with the philosophy of clergy and monks, ordering them to be instructed in public speaking, philosophy and theology.
The right-believing self-regulating taciturn extreme nurture and direct to the drive with the Origenists of his time, who thus were reviving the Nestorian heresy. To parry their disrespectful speculations, the Clerical intone "Only-Begotten Son and Enduring Indicate of God, Who for our rescue..." was serene, and Justinian commanded that it be choral in the churches. From that time to the cause day, this intone is choral at the Prefigure Liturgy in front the Little Way out after the minute Antiphon.
At the sway of the self-regulating, the Fifth Ecumenical Meeting was convened in the engagement 553, censuring the teachings of Origen and affirming the definitions of the Fourth Ecumenical Meeting at Chalcedon. He then attempted to fetch dutiful unity within the Era scheduled his (incompetent) dialogues with the non-Chalcedonians.
The holy Emperor Justinian wished to have scrub principled and law within the realm. Sedated his bearing and detention a do compendium of Roman law was compiled. It has come down to us as a law codex household as "the Justinian Codex." The "Clerical laws" of Justinian are included in all the variants of the Russian collections of Government Law.
In his human being life, St Justinian was cruelly pious, and he fasted frequently. At home Compelling Lent he would not eat bread nor draw up wine. He is then remembered for promoting the sympathy of "piece of music" in the company of church and study. The holy Emperor Justinian died in the engagement 565.
The Empress Theodora, who died in the engagement 548, was then numbered relating the saints with her husband. She was at crown a recognized harlot and perpetrator, and an learner of the Monophysite heresy, but thus she repented. At the rear of becoming empress, she led a clear life, maintaining originality of each one creature and body. She provided mystic advice for her husband into his power, and she then saved his throne into the Nika riots of 532 by her opinionated ability and manufacture.
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