Daniel Roher, the Canadian director behind the Oscar-winning Navalny documentary, steps into narrative filmmaking with a story about love, friendship and the cost of perfection.
A passage from Archimandrite Ioanichie Bălan's Romanian Patericon recalls the teaching of Protosingelos Iosif Rusu on unconditional love and divine mercy.
Excerpt from the Romanian Patericon, sixth edition, Sihăstria Monastery Press, 2011.
Protosingelos Iosif Rusu is portrayed as a spiritual father defined by unconditional love for all people.
Divine mercy before the Last Judgment is a central motif of Romanian Orthodox monastic tradition.
A passage from the Romanian Patericon sheds new light on the 19th-century's most celebrated fiddler — a man equally at home on the concert stage and in the choir loft.
Barbu Lăutarul was a fiddler-bard of European renown in the 19th century.
A church source also describes him as a psaltist who sang liturgical chant.
Metropolitan Iosif Naniescu features in the Patericon as his patron and protector.
On 4 July 1934, physicist and chemist Marie Curie died — the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person ever awarded in two different scientific fields.
First woman in history to win a Nobel Prize, awarded in 1903 for physics.
The only person ever to receive Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines: physics and chemistry.
She died in 1934 from prolonged exposure to the very radiation she had researched.
Bucharest City Hall says consolidation works on the medieval Voivodal Palace — once home to Vlad the Impaler and Michael the Brave — will begin soon, with restoration to follow.
Bucharest City Hall has announced emergency consolidation works at the medieval Voivodal Palace.
The site was once the residence of rulers including Vlad the Impaler and Constantin Brâncoveanu.
Full restoration will only begin after the stabilisation phase is completed.