#kleisoura

[apenitentialprayer]

Screen cap from Bible Illustrated's video on Saint Sophia of Kleisoura.

The angels speak [to us] every day.

[orthodoxadventure]

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.10 (after 1930)

1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented. 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. 1966 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. 1980 – The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids. 1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments 1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy. 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. 1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. 2000 – Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people. 2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. 2012 – A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others. 2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan. 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people. 2019 – A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.

[orthodoxiaonline]

Μιά φορά πήγαμε σε μία άσκήτρια, στά μέρη τής Κλεισούρας,στήν Καστοριά. Είχε τό προορατικό χάρισμα. Δέν ξέρω,αν έχετε άκούσει γι’ αυτήν. Ήταν ψηλή γυναίκα καί συγκύπτουσα. Είχε άλουσία περίπου σαράντα χρόνια καί είχε μία πλεξούδα , δέν ξέρω πόσες οκάδες ζύγιζε!Πώς τήν σήκωνε αύτή τήν πλεξούδα ! Εκαν... https://orthodoxia.online/orthodoxia/i-gerontissa-makrina-milaei-gia-tin-agia-sofia-tis-kleisouras/?feed_id=31273&_unique_id=645cd992d716f

[thesynaxarium]

Today we celebrate a recent Saint of our church, Eldress Sophia the Fool for Christ of Kleisoura Monastery (+1975). Showing true wisdom as her namesake, Saint Sophia took on the struggle of foolishness for Christ. She practiced extreme asceticism, living in the wood fire oven of the monastery's kitchen, eating the crumbs left on the dining table and drinking from the dirty dish water. Through her foolishness, she was proved wise before God. May she intercede for the salvation of our souls + #saint #sophia #kleisoura #eldress #ascetic #nun #monastic #monasticism #fool #foolforchrist #christ #jesus #jesuschrist #prayer #monastery #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Klisoúra, Kastoria, Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdMNlR5PKjE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[elladastinkardiamou]

I got to know the carnival in Klisoura after having some small talk with the hotel owner in Kastoria. I was staying in Kastoria because I had some time after the New Year's festivities in Argos Orestikon and the Bell bearers'  customs in Drama. Kastoria is a beautiful city in northern Greece, situated around a big lake.

The carnival continues in Kastoria and during the first day of the Year Argkoutsaria (Carnivals in the Vlach language) are celebrated in the historic Klisoura.

During the first day of the Year Argkoutsaria (Carnivals in the Vlach language) are celebrated in the historic Klisoura. Kleisoura is a traditionally Aromanian (Vlach) settlement and a former municipality in Kastoria regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. On 5 April 1944, the German occupation forces executed 280 inhabitants as retaliation for the killing of three Nazi soldiers by ELAS guerrilla forces operating under Alexis Rosios just outside the village at the location Ntaouli

The clothing since 1904, the beginning of the Macedonian revolution, has changed to the Macedonian warrior’s one, which includes the cloak, fustanella, a stiff white kilt, worn by men in Greece, and tsarouchia, a type of shoe, which is typically known nowadays as part of the traditional uniform. Tsarouchia are typically made of a number of pieces of stiff leather hand-sewn together, in the moccasin fashion. They have a characteristic pointy nose, usually covered by a large woolen pompom.

[alnikou]

Kleisoura kastorias

[humanhistoricalstories]

January, 10 #onthisday 1920. The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. 1941. World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. 1946. The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented. 1954. BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. 1962. Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission. 1966. Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1984. Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy. 1990. Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. 2007. A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #treatyofversailles #wwi #wwii #greekarmy #kleisoura #unitednations #planecrush #naza #apolloprogram #apollo #india #pakistan #holysea #unitedstates #vatican #timewarner #lansanaconte #guinea #africa https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3qliCHXdk/?igshid=tvvxnl62bz1d

[sebpeter]

The Village

[spoilersgr]

Κλεισούρα σημαίνει στενό πέρασμα και στην ελληνική ιστορία έχει ταυτιστεί με το έπος του 40 και την περήφανη νίκη του ελληνικού στρατού κόντρα στον Ιταλό εισβολέα κοντά στην πόλη Κλεισούρα της Επαρχίας Πρεμετής της Αλβανίας. Στην ελληνική ιστοριογραφία το όνομα «Κλεισούρα» έχει συνδεθεί και με την ιστορική περιοχή κοντά στην Καστοριά που δοκιμάστηκε σκληρά στην κατοχή και σημαδεύτηκε από την ανείπωτη σφαγή των αμάχων από τον γερμανικό στρατό κατοχής. Εκτός από την Κλεισούρα του πολέμου και της καταστροφής, υπάρχει μια ακόμα λιγότερο γνωστή που δεν δοκιμάστηκε στον πόλεμο και παραμένει τόπος ειρήνης και ησυχίας. Μόλις 15 χιλιόμετρα από το Αγρίνιο βρίσκεται η Κλεισούρα Αιτωλοακαρνανίας, η οποία εντυπωσιάζει για την γεωμορφολογία της και αποτελεί ιδανικό προορισμό για τους φυσιολάτρες…. Το φαράγγι της Κλεισούρας Το Φαράγγι της Κλεισούρας είναι ένας γεωλογικός σχηματισμός στο όρος Αράκυνθος, νότια της λίμνης Τριχωνίδας. Στις πλαγιές του υψώνονται επιβλητικά κάθετα γκρεμνά ύψους 300 μέτρων. Στους προϊστορικούς χρόνους τα βουνά Αράκυνθος και Παναιτωλικό εμπόδιζαν τα νερά του Αχελώου ποταμού να καταλήξουν στη θάλασσα, με αποτέλεσμα να σχηματίζουν μια μεγάλη λίμνη. Έπειτα το νερό διερχόταν από το φαράγγι της Κλεισούρας και κατέληγε στη λιμνοθάλασσα του Αιτωλικού. Μετά από εκατοντάδες χρόνια γεωλογικών ανακατατάξεων στην ευρύτερη περιοχή, το φαράγγι της Κλεισούρας έγινε μια ξερή κοίτη. Η μεγάλη λίμνη περιορίστηκε σε έκταση και από την ενιαία έκτασή της απέμειναν οι υπάρχουσες λίμνες της Τριχωνίδας, του Οζερού, της Αμβρακίας και της Λυσιμαχίας…. Στη βόρεια πλευρά του φαραγγιού βρισκόταν η αρχαία αιτωλική πόλη Πυλήνη, η οποία σύμφωνα με τον Στράβωνα μεταφέρθηκε βορειότερα από ότι ήταν, κοντά στο μοναστήρι του Αγίου Γεωργίου και μετονομάστηκε σε Πρόσχιον. Στη δυτική πλευρά του φαραγγιού βρίσκεται μέχρι και σήμερα η μονή Ζωοδόχου Πηγής και η εκκλησία της Αγίας Ελεούσας, χτισμένη σε μια οροφοσπηλιά ενός απόκρημνου γκρεμού. Εκεί, υπήρξε παλαιά ��κήτη στην οποία μόνασε ο Γιάννης Γούναρης, ή αλλιώς Ζούκας, ο οποίος πρωταγωνίστησε στον αγώνα του Μεσολογγίου το 1822 κατά την πρώτη πολιορκία από τον στρατό του Ομέρ Βρυώνη…. Τα σπάνια αρπακτικά που φωλιάζουν στο φαράγγι Εκτός από την ιστορικότητά του, το φαράγγι της Κλεισούρας διακρίνεται και για την περιβαλλοντική του αξία. Παλαιότερα συνήθιζαν να βρίσκουν καταφύγιο στις καταπράσινες πλαγιές του σπάνια είδη αρπακτικών πουλιών, όπως ο Γυπαετός, ο Μαυρογύπας, ο Βασιλαετός, ο Χρυσαετός και ο Σπιζαετός. Σήμερα τα βράχια του φαραγγιού και τα γειτονικά δάση φιλοξενούν Όρνια, τα οποία βρίσκονται στα όρια της εξαφάνισης, Κάργιες, Γαλαζοκότσυφας, Βουνοσταχτάρες και άλλα βραχόφιλα είδη. Στην ευρύτερη περιοχή γύρω από το φαράγγι μπορεί να συναντήσει κανείς Φιδαετούς, Ξεφτέρια, Δεντρογέρους και Γερακίνες. Η βλάστηση της περιοχής παρουσιάζει επίσης ενδιαφέρον με την ύπαρξη συστάδων από γέρικες κουτσουπιές, γάβρους και μελικουκιές. Το φαράγγι μαζί με το βουνό Αράκυνθος είναι ενταγμένο στο δίκτυο Natura 2000…. Πηγή: mixanitouxronou.gr (πληροφορίες απο το makeleio)

[amugglesadly]

Fear of God

"The fear of God makes a person wise. What is the fear of God? Not that one should be afraid of God, but to be afraid to sadden someone, to harm someone, to do them no wrong, and to not make accusations. This is wisdom. After all this, God will illumine you as to what to do in your life." Saint Sophia of Kleisoura

[bast38]

Don't say many words, may they be few and blessed. Love God, and your heart will shine like the sun.

St. Sophia of Kleisoura

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.10

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty. 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor. 236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome. 1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans. 1430 – Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world. 1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui. 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London. 1776 – American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense. 1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War. 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh. 1861 – American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union. 1863 – The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground. 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. 1901 – New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways. 1916 – World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army. 1917 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States. 1920 – League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany. 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented. 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. 1966 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. 1980 – The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids. 1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments 1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy. 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. 1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. 2000 – Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people. 2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. 2012 – A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others. 2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan. 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people. 2019 – A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.

[orthodoxiaonline]

Η Παναΐα τα πόδια της είναι ματωμένα να παρακαλεί για τε μας, μετανοήστε, να ‘σται καλοί άνθρωποι, να νηστεύεται, εδώ είμαστε προσωρινοί, να κάνετε προσευχή, τας δέκα εντολάς να τηράτε, να αγαπάτε ο ένας τον άλλον. Να ‘χετε ευσπλαχνία, μετανοείτε, έρτεν η οργήν του Θεού, να στεφανούστε αγνοί και κα... https://orthodoxia.online/orthodoxia/agia-sofia-tis-kleisouras-den-tha-lete-logia-pou-pikrainoun-tous-anthropous-pikrainete-to-christo/?feed_id=30129&_unique_id=6457af683f1b7

[thesynaxarium]

Today we celebrate a recent Saint of our church, Eldress Sophia the Fool for Christ of Kleisoura Monastery (+1975). Showing true wisdom as her namesake, Saint Sophia took on the struggle of foolishness for Christ. She practiced extreme asceticism, living in the wood fire oven of the monastery's kitchen, eating the crumbs left on the dining table and drinking from the dirty dish water. Through her foolishness, she was proved wise before God. May she intercede for the salvation of our souls + #saint #sophia #kleisoura #eldress #ascetic #nun #monastic #monasticism #fool #foolforchrist #christ #jesus #jesuschrist #prayer #monastery #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Klisoúra, Kastoria, Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/COgK5xIp21e/?igshid=11felopno652y

[frenchbulletin]

ACTEUR : Nouveaux projets sur Egnatia Odos

ACTEUR : Nouveaux projets sur Egnatia Odos

Par Eleni Bota Selon les informations, AKTOR devrait signer un nouveau contrat sur Egnatia Odos dans les prochains jours. C’est le tunnel de Kleisoura. dans lequel AKTOR a émergé comme un meidootis, un projet longtemps attendu car il traverse des zones géologiques difficiles. Le maître d’ouvrage est Egnatia Odos. Le coût du projet avec TVA s’élève à 57,32 millions d’euros hors TVA. L’objet du…