Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday exhibited a recently uncovered, unusual series of 2,000-year-old chambers carved out of the bedrock beneath the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem.
Priest Valery Dukhanin
This is what Laurentian Chronicle (Codex) says: “A most curious wonder has manifested itself in Polotsk: The heavy stamping of feet was heard at night, something was moaning in the streets, demons that looked like people were rushing about. Whoever came out to see what's going on would get imperceptibly stricken with the plague by the demons, and would die from this, so no one ventured out of their dwellings.”
Pandemics have shown how weak and feeble man is. But they have also revealed that there is no sense in living for the earth alone.
A part of the Greek-built Byzantine wall on Sulukule Street in the Topkapı neighbourhood of Constantinople, has fallen.
Svetlana Polivanova
I believe now it has become clear to many that our “self-isolation” is in fact a test of our faith. But we don’t always pass the test worthily. The Russian Revolution was such a test too, though it was harsher and more dangerous for our lives.