Искони бѣ слово: Поклоннически места, свързани с паметта на св. Йоан Богослов
Искони бѣ слово: Pilgrimage Sites Connected with the Memory of St. John the Theologian

Author(s): Iva Trifonova
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Keywords: John the Theologian; John the Theologian’s life; pilgrimage; Bulgaria; temples.
Summary/Abstract: The first part of the study is dedicated to the opening words of the Gospel of John(Искони бѣ слово/In the Beginning was the Word), first translated into Slavonic language by Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher. From the theological interpretation of these words, the study moves on to the personality of the apostle and the information about his earthly path – sought in the literary and iconographic mediaeval realia. The second part is devoted to the pilgrimage sites related to the memory of St. John the Theologian in the Bulgarian lands. Twenty temples, documented in the period from the 11th to the beginning of the 21st century, are described. They testify that Christ’s Apostle and Evangelist has been revered consistently and without interruption over the centuries in the Bulgarian Orthodox tradition.

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