СВЕДЕНИЯ ЗА КИЕВСКИЯ КНЯЗ СВЕТОСЛАВ И НЕГОВИТЕ ВОИНИ В ПОУЧЕНИЕ ЗА БЛАГОВЕЩЕНИЕ НА БОГОРОДИЦА В НЕДЕЛНИКА НА БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ ПАТРИАРСИ И АРХИЕПИСКОПИ
INFORMATION ABOUT THE KING OF KIEV SVYATOSLAV AND HIS WARRIORS FOUND IN “A SERMON FOR THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD” IN "NEDELNIK OF THE BULGARIAN PATRIARCHS AND ARCHBISHOPS”

Summary/Abstract: “The Sermon” is pronounced by the Bulgarian patriarch John the Exarch Novi at the church of "Sveta Bogoroditsa" ("Holy Mother of God") in Preslav on 25th of March 972. Being informed about the intention of Konstantinopol to destroy Preslav as a competitor for the leading position in the Christian oecumene, the preacher delivers a prayer to God, The Word, to protect the castle of the Bulgarian kings in Preslav and the castle of the Grand Russian king Svyatoslav in Preslavets. The author calls upon his listeners as "warriors of God, the Word" to pray for the Russian people as well, and to incorporate them in the true faith. In this sense “The Sermon” of 25th of March 972 includes the first notice of the plan of the Bulgarian church to Christianize Russia which it realizes in 987.

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