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petermorwood · 1 year ago
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Here's a snapshot showing the copyright notice from my hardback first edition of "The Silmarillion".
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Note that neither J.R.R. nor Christopher Tolkien are the copyright owners.
This © George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [year] copyright is also on my hardback volumes of "LotR", "The Hobbit" and "Farmer Giles of Ham", and on @dduane's single-volume "LotR" paperback.
J.R.R. Tolkien's name appears nowhere. Did he assign copyright to his publisher?
I have no idea what this form of copyright notice ultimately implies for when the work will enter Public Domain, since a publishing company doesn't have the lifetime + 70 limitation unless it expires from bankruptcy or something.
Maybe I'm missing an important detail (it wouldn't surprise me for a minute) which means this isn't a weaselly way to keep a property in copyright.
Does anyone have access to a much more recently published, say 2000s-to-2020s, edition, and if so, how is that one's copyright notice worded?
I need to live another twenty years purely to see what kind of bullshit the Tolkien estate gets up to with respect to The Silmarillion in 2044.
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smbhax · 3 days ago
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Cover illustration by Pauline Baynes
(Cover artist seems to be misidentified in most editions on isfdb--except for this one; I've submitted a change to them for their consideration on the Unwin Paperbacks edition and noted that other editions may also need to be similarly updated)
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uwmspeccoll · 9 months ago
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Milestone Monday
March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day to honor the literary prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) author of acclaimed high fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has shared that the seeds of inspiration for his novels came from his childhood fascination and experimentation with constructed language and a 1911 Summer holiday hiking through Switzerland. Roughly fourteen years after his Swiss adventure, Tolkien would write The Hobbit and the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings while teaching in Oxford.  
Stepping slightly away from Tolkien’s novels, today we’re digging into our broadside collection and sharing Bilbo’s Last Song (At Grey Havens), a poem about leaving Middle-Earth. It first appeared, as seen here, as a poster published in 1974 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., the original English publisher of his famous novels, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated many of Tolkien's publications. Chronologically, the poem takes place at the end of the last volume of Lord of the Rings, however it was never included in the series. 
Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 
– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 
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detroitlib · 9 months ago
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From our stacks: Illustration "Member of the Children's staff of the Library." From David Copperfield's Library. By John Brett Langstaff. With Prologue by Sir Owen Seaman and Epilogue by Alfred Noyes. Illustrated by Raven Hill, Frank Reynolds, H. M. Bateman, Arthur Norris, and Hanslip Fletcher. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1924.
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maironsbigboobs · 1 year ago
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I know I absolutely deserve to be Canceled Utterly and without Mercy for this take but...
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That picture with the little dude in jorts and red pointy shoes crawling over roots?
That... I mean we all know that isn't Beleg, right? I mean I know this is a death knell take but that forest isn't Doriath. It isn't Dimbar. It isn't even Brethil. It's Fangorn.
Fangorn.
At best that's Legolas.
I hate myself for knowing this. I want Beleg to have little red sassy boots. How did everyone come to associate that painting with Beleg when it's Fangorn Forest?
Accept the boots into your heart. No you are correct, it is captioned as Fangorn.
Apparently: It was Fangorn on the 1973 cover of Two Towers, but was apparently first an image of Beleg and Gwindor that JRRT repurposed.
According to Tolkien gateway:
The only possible explanation is that J.R.R. Tolkien decided that "The Silmarillion" painting could nevertheless be used as the cover illustration of the George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973 edition of The Two Towers, as an illustration of the hobbits in Fangorn Forest. It was probably done at the same time as the other "Silmarillion" paintings in the late 1920s.
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5brightplanets · 3 months ago
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The sea, lovely clouded still blue bright,
Shadowy shore windless pools of starry surprise
In a whirl-web of mist white pearls dancing.
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On A Count Of Three Series. The idealized tango pairs two dancers where one passionately leads and the other aggressively follows. Ordinary, day to day tangos routinely require just one passionately aggressive dancer to pair with a headfull of bundled ideas. Tolkien’s Ring Cycle is a good example: The Ring tango is preemptively nonexclusive and its precious capacities turn out to be some fluxy combination of the imagined and the real. Or, take a look at Tolkien’s confession that a hobbit performs an ancestral tango awash with thoughts of the Sea; it is a mysterious paradox, as hobbits are patently unseaworthy. 100% made from Princess Mee found in The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil, first published by J.R.R. Tolkien with George Allen & Unwin Ltd., circa 1962. The viewable and listenable link is posted by Pearl Bailey - Topic; https://youtu.be/QhutuUSlFw8?si=pFWUOHUNAy_YiLJ5 is a seemingly one-time-use, hypochangeable link to Takes Two To Tango. Grateful awareness of the many artists, musicians and technicians who present these sights and sounds. Words and Music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning. -Jivananda (Jim)
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orthodoxydaily · 6 months ago
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Saints&Reading: Thursday, June 13, 2024
may 31_june 13
The Ascension of our Lord.
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Troparion of the Ascension (tone IV) : O Christ God, Thou didst ascend in glory, O Christ our God, having gladdened Thy disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. And this blessing convinced them that Thou art the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world!
Kontakion, (tone VI)
Having accomplished for us Thy mission and united things on earth with things in heaven, thou didst ascend into glory, O christ our God, being nowhere separated from those who love Thee, but remaining everpresent with us and calling: I am with you and no one is against you.
HOLY GEORGIAN MARTYRS OF PERSIA (17th-18thC) c.)
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  Throughout history Georgia has frequently been forced to defend what St. Ilia the Righteous called its “threefold treasure”— language, fatherland, and Faith. In this regard, the events of the 17th century are some of the most tragic in all of Georgian history.       In 1616 the bloodthirsty Persian ruler Shah Abbas I invaded Georgia with a massive army. His goal was to level the country completely, to leave not a single building standing. The shah’s army kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Kakhetian Georgians and then sent them to Persia to be sold as slaves. They settled Turkmen in the newly depopulated Georgian regions. In collaboration with the shah, many Lezgin peoples from the mountainous North Caucasus moved south to occupy the homes of the exiled Georgians.       The 17th-century Italian traveler Pietro della Valle described the Georgian exile in Persia: “It would be too long to narrate all that has passed in this miserable migration, how many murders, how many deaths caused by privation, how many seductions, rapes, and acts of violence, how many children drowned by their own parents or cast into rivers through despair, some snatched by force from their mother’s breasts because they seemed too weak to live and thrown down by the wayside and abandoned there to be food for wild beasts or trampled underfoot by the horses and camels of the army, which marched for a whole day on top of dead bodies; how many sons separated from their fathers, wives from their husbands, sisters from their brothers, and carried off to distant countries without hope of ever meeting again. Throughout the camp, men and women were sold on this occasion much cheaper than beasts, because of the great number of them.” (Quoted in David Marshall Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Church (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1956), p. 170.)       The Georgian exiles in Persia included a large number of clergy. Many of them celebrated the divine services in secret and inspired the people to remain faithful to God. Those discovered were punished severely. Many Georgians were martyred for the Christian Faith during the Persian exile. Not only Georgian researchers, but historians and travelers of other nationalities attest to the truth of this. Furthermore, ethnic Georgians currently residing in formerly Persian territories continue to commemorate their fallen ancestors to this day. They make pilgrimages to the sites where their ancestors were martyred and prepare feasts there in honor of their memory. One of these sites has been called “Ascension.”       Of language, fatherland, and Faith, only language remains alive among Georgians in the formerly Persian territories. Most have lost touch with both their fatherland and the Christian Faith. Those fortunate enough to be able to return to Georgia often convert to Orthodox Christianity. In 2001, when Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II visited the ethnic Georgians in Iran, he presented them with a mound of Georgian soil. With great emotion the Georgians scattered the soil over the ground where their ancestors were martyred.       On September 18, 2003, the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church prayerfully considered the martyric contest of the Georgians in Persia. The Synod declared all those martyred at the hands of Muslims in the 17th and 18th centuries worthy to be numbered among the saints. Their commemoration day was set on the feast of Holy Ascension, in honor of the place where many of them were martyred.
© 2006 St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood.
MARTYR HERMIAS at COMANA (160)
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Holy Martyr Hermias suffered for Christ in the city of Comana during the persecution under the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). The governor Sebastian, who was in Cappadocia to arrest Christians, urged the saint to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, promising him honors and mercy from the emperor.
The old soldier bravely confessed his faith in Christ. After long exhortation, the governor gave orders to torture the saint. They beat him on the face so that the skin peeled from his face, and they threw him into a red-hot oven. When the oven was opened after three days, the martyr Hermias emerged from it unharmed.
The governor Sebastian ordered the sorcerer Marus to poison Saint Hermias with a potion. The poisonous drink did the saint no harm. A second goblet with even stronger poison also failed to kill the saint. The sorcerer believed in Christ the Savior, and was immediately beheaded. Saint Marus was baptized in his own blood, and received a martyr’s crown.
Saint Hermias was subjected to even more terrible tortures. They raked his body with sharp instruments, threw him in boiling oil, and gouged out his eyes, but he gave thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they suspended the martyr head downward. For three days he hung in this position.
People sent by the governor to verify his death found him alive. Struck by the miracle, they were blinded with fright and began to call out to the saint to help them. The holy martyr ordered the blind to approach him, and healed them in the Name of Jesus Christ.
In anger the governor ordered the skin flayed from the saint’s body, but he remained alive. Then the crazed Sebastian beheaded him with his own sword. Christians secretly buried the body of the martyr Hermias, whose relics bestowed numerous healings.
Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA
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ACTS 1:1-12
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. 9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven." 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.
LUKE 24:36-53
36 Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you." 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. 40 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any food here?" 42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it and ate in their presence. 44 Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. 50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.
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tolkienillustrations · 5 years ago
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s cover for The Hobbit
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gliklofhameln · 3 years ago
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R.
The Lord of the Rings
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969.
First deluxe edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, complete in one volume.
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mary-tudor · 3 years ago
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Mary I wrote to Sir Edward Hastinon the 9th of July, 1553:
"Right trusty and wellbeloved cousin, we greet you well. Advertising you that, to our great grief and heaviness of heart, we have received woeful news and advertisement that the King, our dearest brother and late sovereign lord, is departed to God's mercy upon Thursday last at night. 
By means whereof the right of the crown of this realm of England, with the governance thereof and the title of France, is justly come unto us by God's providence; as appears by such provisions as have been made by act of Parliament and the testament and last will of our late dearest father, King Henry Vifi, for our preferment in this behalf. 
Whereby you are now discharged of your duty of allegiance to our said brother the King, and unburdened and set at large to observe, execute, or obey any commandment heretofore or hereafter to addressed unto you by letter or otherwise from or in the name, or by colour of the authority of the same King, our late brother; and only to us and our person are and owe to be true liegeman”.
repr. in Mortimer Levine, Tudor Dynastic Problems. 1460-1571, Historical Problems Studies and Documents no. 21, ed. G. R. Elton (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1973), p. 170.
Quoted from: SAMSON, Alexander Winton Seton.“The marriage of Philip of Habsburg and Mary Tudor and anti-Spanish sentiment in England : political economies and culture, 1553-1557″. pp. 43-54.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/30695717.pdf
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citizenscreen · 3 years ago
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George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London published the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” on September 21, 1937. #OnThisDay
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elrincondelescritornovato · 4 years ago
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"Cuentos Inconclusos" de J.R.R. Tolkien, una recopilación revisada y ordenada por Christopher Tolkien, hijo del autor. Esta es una edición conformada por tres tomos, una publicación de Ediciones Minotauro, de 1989, 1980 en la edición original de George Allen & Unwin Ltd., impreso en Mexico. Este es el primer tomo, donde se habla de la primera edad y se relatan las vidas de Tour y Hurin. Son escritos que al parecer no se llevaron al debido término por parte del autor, ya que este al parecer dedico más esfuerzos a "El señor de los anillos" y al "Silmarillion", al menos así es como yo lo había entendido. Me pregunto a veces que hubiese ocurrido de haber vivido el autor para darle una estructura y final más de su estilo, que resultado se hubiese visto de ello. . . . . . #elrincóndelescritornovato #elrincondelescritornovato #librosleidosatravesdemivida #jrrtolkien #jrrtolkein #jrrtolkienquote #jrrtolkienbooks #escritoresbritanicos #escritores #megustaescribir #escribohistorias #escribomilibro #pasiónporlaescritura #pasionporlalectura #pasionporescribir #pasionporleer #pasionporlaescritura #pasiónporlalectura #pasiónporescribir #pasiónporleer #historiasrecomendadas #historiasdefantasia #historiasdeespadaybrujeria #librosrecomendados #libros #librosymaslibros #escritornovato #elescritornovato #escritoraficionado #devenezuela (en Venezuela, Maracay, Edo Aragua) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1bi8QlMum/?igshid=15zx39m4t35vb
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rarebookcellar · 2 years ago
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Just got these in… J. R. R. Tolkien LORD OF THE RINGS FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, RETURN OF THE KING London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1957-1959. First Edition; Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Item #163810 A very nice set. First UK edition set, [seventh impression, fifth impression, seventh impression]. Cloth-bound. Octavo (230 x 150 mm). Pp. 423; 352; 416. Original red cloth with gilt titles to spines. Top edges tinted red. Foldout map to rear of each volume. Condition: VERY GOOD+. Bindings tight, secure and square. The edges and points sharp. Covers largely clean. Interiors clean, the maps excellent. Dust jackets complete, very bright and without tears. An excellent very well-preserved set. Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. , 1957 [7th impression]. Part 2: The Two Towers. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. , 1957 [5th impression]. Part 3: The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. , 1959 [7th impression]. Light staining on Return of the King top text block edge and rear pastedown/end page. Tape along spine edges and rear flap fold. #toklien #jrrtolkien #lotr #lordoftherings #thetwotowers #thereturnoftheking #thefellowshipofthering #fellowshipofthering #twotowers #returnoftheking #rarebooks #rarebookcellar https://www.instagram.com/p/CgSxJwmrmJJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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detroitlib · 9 months ago
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From our stacks: Illustration "The Child who, having read every volume in David Copperfield's Library, asks for more." From David Copperfield's Library. By John Brett Langstaff. With Prologue by Sir Owen Seaman and Epilogue by Alfred Noyes. Illustrated by Raven Hill, Frank Reynolds, H. M. Bateman, Arthur Norris, and Hanslip Fletcher. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1924.
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5brightplanets · 4 months ago
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It is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptable. Attempts to define it are especially vague and imperfect. Plainly, it cannot be done. It has many ingredients, but proper analysis will ever be caught up in a shadowy net of rules and words.
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The Radiant Par View Series. Even a footnote by JT nicely dances on point: They should not be spared it-unless they are spared the whole story until their digestions are stronger. 100% made from Tree And Leaf, first published by J.R.R. Tolkien with George Allen & Unwin Ltd., circa 1964. Found in a 1981, thirty-first printing of a Ballantine Books paperback edition of the Tolkien Reader. The viewable and listenable link is posted by Scratchy 45’s; https://youtu.be/X-qOnpqd51U?si=au0IeTTHLjHIIVBU is a seemingly one-time-use, hypochangeable link to 1975_008 - K.C. and the Sunshine Band - That’s The Way (I Like It) - (45)(mp3)(2.57). Grateful awareness of the many artists, musicians and technicians who present these sights and sounds. Words and Music composed and performed by Harry W. Casey and Richard Finch. -Jivananda (Jim)
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orthodoxydaily · 2 years ago
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Saints&Reading: Thursday, May 25, 203
may 25_may 12
The Ascension of the Lord
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Troparion, Tone IV
Thou didst ascend into glory, O Christ our God, having gladdened Thy disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. And this blessing convinced them that Thou art the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world.
Kontakion, Tone VI
Having accomplished for us Thy mission and united things on earth with things in heaven, Thou didst ascend into glory, O Christ, our God, being nowhere separated from those who love Thee, but remaining ever present with us and calling: I am with you and no one is against you.
HOLY GEORGIAN MARTYRS OF PERSIA (17th-18th c.)
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Throughout history, Georgia has frequently been forced to defend what St. Ilia the Righteous called its “threefold treasure”— language, fatherland, and Faith. In this regard, the events of the 17th century are some of the most tragic in all of Georgian history.      In 1616 the bloodthirsty Persian ruler Shah Abbas I invaded Georgia with a massive army. His goal was to level the country altogether, leaving no building standing. The Shah’s army kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Kakhetian Georgians and then sent them to Persia to be sold as slaves. They settled Turkmen in the newly depopulated Georgian regions. In collaboration with the Shah, many Lezgin peoples from the mountainous North Caucasus moved south to occupy the homes of the exiled Georgians.      The 17th-century Italian traveler Pietro della Valle described the Georgian exile in Persia: “It would be too long to narrate all that has passed in this miserable migration, how many murders, how many deaths caused by privation, how many seductions, rapes, and acts of violence, how many children drowned by their own parents or cast into rivers through despair, some snatched by force from their mother’s breasts because they seemed too weak to live and thrown down by the wayside and abandoned there to be food for wild beasts or trampled underfoot by the horses and camels of the army, which marched for a whole day on top of dead bodies; how many sons separated from their fathers, wives from their husbands, sisters from their brothers, and carried off to distant countries without hope of ever meeting again. Throughout the camp, men and women were sold on this occasion much cheaper than beasts because of the great number of them.” (Quoted in David Marshall Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Church (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1956), p. 170.)      The Georgian exiles in Persia included a large number of clergy. Many celebrated the divine services secretly and inspired the people to remain faithful to God. Those discovered were punished severely. Many Georgians were martyred for the Christian Faith during the Persian exile. Not only Georgian researchers, historians, and travelers of other nationalities attest to this truth. Furthermore, ethnic Georgians residing in formerly Persian territories continue commemorating their fallen ancestors. They make pilgrimages to the sites where their ancestors were martyred and prepare feasts to honor their memory. One of these sites is called “Ascension.”      Of language, fatherland, and Faith, only language remains alive among Georgians in the formerly Persian territories. Most have lost touch with both their homeland and the Christian Faith. Those fortunate enough to be able to return to Georgia often convert to Orthodox Christianity. In 2001, when Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II visited the ethnic Georgians in Iran, he presented them with a mound of Georgian soil. With great emotion, the Georgians scattered the ground over where their ancestors were martyred.      On September 18, 2003, the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church prayerfully considered the martyric contest of the Georgians in Persia. The Synod declared all those martyred at the hands of Muslims in the 17th and 18th centuries worthy of being numbered among the saints. Their commemoration day was set on the feast of Holy Ascension in honor of the place where many of them were martyred.
© 2006 St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood.
VENERABLE DIONYSIUS ARCHIMANDRITE OF SAINT SERGIUS MONASTERY  (Radonezh_1633)
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Saint Dionysius of Radonezh, in the world David Zobninovsky, was born about 1570 in the city of Rzhev. A novice and then head of the Staritsky Dormition monastery during the Time of Troubles he was the foremost helper of Saint Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow.
From 1611, Saint Dionysius was the archimandrite of the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra. Under his administration, a house and hospice for the injured and those left homeless during the Polish-Lithuanian incursion was opened near the monastery. During a famine, he told the brethren of the Lavra to eat oat bread and water, leaving the wheat and the rye bread for the sick. In 1611-1612, he and the steward of the Trinity-Sergiev monastery, the monk Abraham Palitsyn (+ 1625), wrote letters asking the people of Nizhni-Novgorod and other cities to send fighting men and money to liberate Moscow from the Poles. He also wrote to Prince Demetrius Pozharsky and to all the military people, urging them to hasten the campaign for Moscow.
His monastic training helped Saint Dionysius maintain his inner light undiminished during the terrible years of this evil time. The saint achieved a high degree of spiritual pefection through unceasing prayer, which gave him the gift of working miracles. He carefully concealed his spiritual life from others, who might suffer harm from a superficial knowledge of it.
“Do not ask a monk about things concerning his monastic life,” said Saint Dionysius, “since for us monks, it is a great misfortune to reveal such secrets to laymen. It is written that what is done in secret should not be known, even by your own left hand. We must hide so that what we do remains unknown, lest the devil leads us into negligence and indolence.”
We can only measure his spiritual development and the knowledge of God, which he attained by those things which became apparent when circumstances compelled Saint Dionysius to take an active part in the world around him.
One such circumstance was his involvement in the revision of the service books. In 1616 Saint Dionysius spoke of work on correction of the Book of Needs by comparing it with the ancient Slavonic manuscripts and various Greek editions.
During their work, investigators discovered discrepancies in other books edited in the period between patriarchs (1612-1619). People did not understand what the editors were doing, so they accused Saint Dionysius and the others of heresy at a Council of 1618.
Deposed from his priestly rank and excommunicated from the Church, he has imprisoned in the Novospassky (New Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior) monastery, where they wanted to kill him by starvation. The intervention of Patriarch Philaretos of Moscow and Patriarch Theophanes of Jerusalem (1619-1633) won his release in 1619, and he was cleared of the charges against him.
Saint Dionysius was known for his strict observance of the monastery Rule, for sharing in monastery tasks, and in rebuilding the monastery after the siege of the Lavra. The Life and Canon to the Saint were composed by the Trinity-Sergiev monastery steward Simon Azaryn and augmented by the priest John Nasedka, a coworker of Saint Dionysius when he was correcting the service books.
Saint Dionysius was reposed on May 12, 1633, and was buried in the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra.
Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA
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ACTS 1:1-12
1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things about the kingdom of God. 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. 9 When He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come like you saw Him go into heaven." 12 They returned to Jerusalem from Mount Olivet, near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.
MARK 16:9-20 
9 When He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. 10 She told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. 11 And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe. 12 After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country. 13 And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either. 14 Later, He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table, and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name, they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and recover. 19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 They went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
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