Iirc, when that monastery was founded, England was, technically, a Christian Orthodox country.
It became Catholic after 1066. Bill the Bastard had the Pope's blessing, apparently.
Verity Imelda Player
When this monastery was founded in 1051, neither Moscow nor even Russia existed. Putin hates that the fountainhead of Russian history is in Kyiv, not in the trackless wastes his own country.
Arthur Snell
🇺🇦💔 Zelensky: As of now, 28 people are injured and four have died in the capital. Due to the Russian strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the Assumption Cathedral burned down - a church whose history began in the 11th century.
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