A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Scientific American о портрету Константина Великог, 1911.

A New Portrait of Constantine the Great
A Splendidly Preserved Record of a Prominent Historical Figure
By Alfred Emerson, Chicago Art Institute

У духу прославе јубилеја – 17 векова од доношења Миланског едикта, Одељење за документацију Народног музеја у Београду преноси чланак који је објављен 1911. године у престижном америчком научном часопису Scientific American Supplement. No. 1865, у коме се говори о бронзаном портрету Константина Великог.

У ауторском тексту, Алфред Емерсон, уважени историчар уметности Уметничког института из Чикага, захваљује Народном музеју у Београду и Српском легату у Лондону на пруженој шанси да ова вредни експонат види више пута, а затим читаоце упознаје са условима налаза портрета. Наиме, бронзана глава императора Константина I случајно је пронађена у Нишу, некадашњем римском граду Наисусу, док су се копали темељи за нови мост преко Нишаве 1900. године.

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Емерсон се бави сличностима нишког портета са ликом Константина на златном, сребрном и бронзаном новцу кованом за време његове владавине, наглашавајући да је ово један од ретких портрета за који можемо бити сигурни да представља Константина Великог. Нишки портрет Емерсон пореди и са бронзаном статуом Константиновог претходника Требониана, која се чува у њујоршком Метрополитен музеју, настављајући са описом општих одлика римске скулптуре 4. века које су видљиве и на oвом портрету.

Емерсон на крају подсећа и на заслуге Константина Великог, за време чије владавине је проглашен Едикт о толеранцији хришћанске вере, основана нова престоница Царства – Константинопољ, постављени темељи папства и хришћанске цркве, а недеља проглашена за дан одмора и верског обреда.

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People Directory

Metropolitan Irinej (Kovačević)

(1963–1998)

Milan Kovačević was born to Sreten and Kristine Kovačević on 6 September, 1914, in the village Vrnčani near Gornji Milanovac in the Kingdom of Serbia. Milan completed primary school in his village, and high school in Gornji Milanovac. After completing the course at the Teachers High School, he served as a teacher in the village Ljutovnica near Gornji Milanovac.

In 1941, during World War II, because he was at that time an army reserve officer, he was taken by the Nazis to a camp in Germany, where he remained until 1945. After the liberation, Milan went to England, where he temporarily attended a seminary in Dorchester.

In 1950, he emigrated to the USA, and he enrolled in the Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York, and also in Columbia University.

In October, 1953, Milan entered the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Saint Sava in Libertyville, Illinois. On 30 December, 1953, he was tonsured to be a monk by Archimandrite Firmilian (Ocokoljić), and he was given the name Irinej. On 31 December, 1953, the Monk Irinej was ordained to the Holy Diaconate in the monastery by Bishop Dionisije, while on April, 1954, the Hierodeacon Irinej was ordained to the priesthood in the monastery by Bishop Dionisije. On 31 August, 1956, the Hieromonk Irinej was elevated to the dignity of igumen (abbot).

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Publishing

The One and the Many

Studies of God, Man, the Church, and the World today

by Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas

This volume offers a collection of Zizioulas articles which have appeared mostly in English, and which present his trinianatarian doctrine of God, as well as his theological account of the Church as the place in which freedom and communion are actualized. The title, The One and the Many, suggests the idea of a profound relationship that exists between the Persons in the Holy Trinity, between Christ and the Church, between one Catholic Church and many catholic Churches. On each of these levels of communion, each one is called to receive from one another and indeed to receive one another. And while this is understandable at the Triadological and Christological levels, it raises all sorts of fundamental ecclesiological questions, since the highest point of unity in this context is both the mutual ecclesial-eucharistic recognition and agreement on doctrine and canonical-eccelesiological organization.

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