** Nilus of Sinai

* Nilus of Sinai, bishop and saint ( approximate date )

: PG 79: Nilus of Sinai

From Gregory, the powerful Count of Tusculum, father of Popes Benedict VIII and John XIX, Nilus obtained the site, which had been a Roman villa, where among the ruins there remained a low edifice of opus quadratum that had been a sepulchral monument but had been converted to a Christian oratory in the fourth century.

The Greek Rite which was brought to Grottaferrata by St. Nilus had lost its native character by the end of the twelfth century, but was restored by order of Leo XIII in 1881.

The library of the Abbey, which contains some 50, 000 volumes, has a paper conservation Laboratorio di Restauro, which was entrusted with the conservation of Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana ; the library houses writings of St. Nilus and his pupils and a rare copy of Alvise Cadamosto's collected travel accounts, printed in the early sixteenth century.

This was illustrated by Nilus Doxapatris, who in 1142 – 43 insisted strongly on the primacy of the Church of Constantinople, which he regarded as inherited from Rome because of the transfer of the capital and because Rome had fallen into the hands of the barbarians, but who expressly restricted Byzantine authority to the other three eastern patriarchates.

Nilus was merely the translator, however, and could not consistently explain or account for the " appendix ," for which he denied authorship.

Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbnyi Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov, Russia, ca.

He then moved for a short time to Rome, where he completed a set of engravings representing frescoes at Grottaferrata by Domenichino depicting the life of St Nilus.

* Repose of Rassophore Monk John, of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery ( 1863 )

Domenichino's frescoes, commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese in 1608, can be seen in the chapel of St. Nilus.

Annibale Carracci executed the altarpiece of the Madonna with Child with St. Nilus and St. Bartholomew.

The monastery of Rossano, founded by St. Nilus the Younger, remained for a long time faithful to the best literary traditions of Constantinople.

* Repose of Elder John of St. Nilus of Sora Monastery ( 1903 )

It was built by St. Nilus the Younger in the tenth century for the ascetic retreat of monks living in the tufa grottos underneath.

During this timeframe, Nilus was given the papers of Nikolay Motovilov, a Russian landowner and Fool for Christ who was a disciple of St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Nilus published one of these manuscripts as " A Wonderful Revelation to the World: the Conversation of St. Seraphim with Nicholas Alexandrovich Motovilov on the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.

In the 6th century, Simplicius wrote a commentary upon it, and two Christian writers, Nilus and an anonymous author wrote paraphrases of it, adapted for Christians, in the first half of the 5th century.

At the intercession of Saint Nilus the Younger, one of his countrymen, Otto III spared John XVI's life.

In 999, Otto made a pilgrimage from Gargano to Benevento, where he met with the hermit monk Romuald and the Abbot Nilus the Younger ( then a highly venerated religious figure ) in order to atone for having executed Crescentius II after promising his safety.

Others derived the legends about Achelous from Egypt, and describe him as a second Nilus.

According to Greek mythology, Aegyptus (, Aígyptos ) is a descendant of the heifer maiden, Io, and the river-god Nilus, and was a king in Egypt.

At Palermo, Roger drew round him distinguished men of various races, such as the famous Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi and the Greek historian Nilus Doxopatrius.

In some versions she is the daughter of Nilus, god of the Nile and Nephele, a soft cloud oceanid.

* In Greek mythology, Nilus ( mythology ) was a son of Oceanus and Tethys.

* Nil Sorsky also called Nilus of Sora ( c. 1433 – 1508 ) Russian saint and Orthodox theologian

In Isocrates ' rhetorical use of a theme that he considers unworthy of serious treatment, the villainous king of Egypt named Busiris, a son of Poseidon and Anippe, daughter of the river-god Nilus, was the ancient founder of Egyptian civilization, with an imagined " model constitution " that Isocrates sets up as a parodic contrast to the Republic by Plato.

He married ( and was murdered by ) Hecabe or Eurydice, daughter of Danaus and the naiad Caliadne, daughter of Nilus and Polyxo's sister.

He first published ( 1608 ) an edition of a work by Nilus Cabasilas, ( archbishop of Thessalonica in the 14th century ) against the primacy of the pope ( De primatu Papae ), and an edition of a similar tract by the Calabrian monk Barlaam of Seminara ( ca.

His treatise De primatu Papae ( 1645 ), accompanying a republication of the tract of Nilus Cabasilas, excited controversy in France, but the government declined to suppress it.

Donnelly Hall ( named for Brother Nilus Donnelly, who supervised construction of the 12 major campus facilities built by the Brothers ), a dormitory at the time, was built in 1962 by the brothers themselves.

The wife of Belus has been named as Achiroe, allegedly daughter of the river-god Nilus.

Up to 1802, it was the property of the Abbey of Saint Nilus Grottaferrata, the Apostolic Camera ( Catholic Church Financial Administration ) and then owned by Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski in 1870.

John XVI fled, but the Emperor's troops pursued and captured him, cut off his nose and ears, cut out his tongue, broke his fingers and blinded him, that he might not write, and publicly degraded him before Otto III and Gregory V. At the intercession of Saint Nilus the Younger, one of his countrymen, his life was spared: he was sent to the monastery of Fulda, in Germany, where he died about 1001.

This view is made explicit in the Jerusalem Targum, the Targum Jonathan, the Targum Neofiti and the Fragment Targums ( where in all cases the term is translated Nilus ) as well as in the commentaries of Rashi and Rabbi Yehuda Halevi.

The excessive acquisition of wealth and property led to several attempts at reform, such as Bernard of Clairvaux in the West and Nilus of Sora in the East.

Although there are earlier records of their use, no panel icons earlier than the few from the 6th century preserved at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai survive.

The Mishna in the beginning of Avot and ( in more detail ) Maimonides in his Introduction to Mishneh Torah records a chain of tradition ( mesorah ) from Moses at Mount Sinai down to R ' Ashi, redactor of the Talmud and last of the Amoraim.

The Egyptian records themselves have no mention of anything recorded in Exodus, the wilderness of the southern Sinai peninsula shows no traces of a mass-migration such as Exodus describes, and virtually all the place-names mentioned, including Goshen ( the area within Egypt where the Israelites supposedly lived ), the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses, the site of the crossing of the Red Sea ( or, more commonly among modern Biblical scholars, the Sea of Reeds ), and even Mt Sinai itself, have resisted identification.

In somewhat of a miracle ( Sinai Beach is a Christian band ), she was moved out of ICU the next morning, fully recovered from the incident ; to this day, they both keep in contact with him.

" The proselyte, however, is dearer to God than was Israel when it was gathered together at Sinai, because Israel would not have received the Law of God without the miracles of its revelation, whereas the proselyte, without seeing a single miracle, has consecrated himself to God and accepted the kingdom of heaven " ( Tan., Lek Leka, ed.