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Sergius of Valaam, the Glossary

Sergius of Valaam (Сергий Валаамский) was a Greek monk and wonderworker credited with bringing Orthodox Christianity to Karelian and Finnish people.^[1]

Andrew the Apostle

Andrew the Apostle (Andréas; Andreas; אַנדּרֵאוָס; ʾAnd'raʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus.

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Archaeological record

The archaeological record is the body of physical (not written) evidence about the past.

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Basil II

Basil II Porphyrogenitus (Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος; 958 – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος), was the senior Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025.

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Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

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The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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First Swedish Crusade

The First Swedish Crusade was a possibly mythical military expedition in the 1150s to Southwestern Finland by Swedish King Eric IX and English Bishop Henry of Uppsala.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Herman of Alaska

Herman of Alaska (r; 1756 – November 15, 1837) was a Russian Orthodox monk and missionary to Alaska, which was then part of Russian America. Sergius of Valaam and Herman of Alaska are Eastern Orthodox missionaries.

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Herman of Valaam

Herman of Valaam (Герман Валаамский) is a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. Sergius of Valaam and Herman of Valaam are Burials at Valaam Monastery, Christian missionaries in Finland and Eastern Orthodox missionaries.

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June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 29 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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Karelians

Karelians (karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset; karjalaiset; kareler, karelare; karely) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Lake Ladoga

Lake Ladoga (Ladozhskoye ozero, or label,; Laatokka;; Ladog, Ladoganjärv) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg.

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List of Byzantine emperors

The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD.

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List of wars between Russia and Sweden

This is a list of wars between Russia, Sweden and their predecessor states.

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Mount Athos

Mount Athos (Ἄθως) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece.

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New Valamo

New Valamo or New Valaam (Valamon luostari, or more informally, especially in the postal address: Uusi-Valamo, Valamo nya kloster, Ново-Валаамский) is an Orthodox monastery in Heinävesi, Finland.

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Orthodox Church of Finland

The Orthodox Church of Finland or Finnish Orthodox Church (lit; Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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Relic

In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.

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Religion in Finland

Finland is a predominantly Christian nation where 65.2% of the Finnish population of 5.6 million are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Protestant), 32.0% are unaffiliated, 1.1% are Orthodox Christians, 0.9% are other Christians and 0.8% follow other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, folk religion etc.

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Route from the Varangians to the Greeks

The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Rus' people

The Rus, also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe.

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Staraya Ladoga

Staraya Ladoga (t), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a selo) in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, north of the town of Volkhov, the administrative center of the district.

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Stephen of Perm

Stephen of Perm (Stefan Permsky; Perymsa Stepan; – 26 April 1396) was a Russian Orthodox bishop, painter and missionary. Sergius of Valaam and Stephen of Perm are 14th-century Christian saints and Eastern Orthodox missionaries.

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Synaxarium

Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, synagein, "to bring together"; cf. etymology of synaxis and synagogue; Latin: Synaxarium, Synexarium; ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲁⲣⲓⲟⲛ; Ge'ez: ሲናክሳሪየም(ስንክሳር); translit) is the name given in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches to a compilation of hagiographies corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_of_Valaam

Also known as Sergius and Herman.

Sergius of Valaam, the Glossary

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See also

14th-century Byzantine monks

Burials at Valaam Monastery

Christian missionaries in Finland

Eastern Orthodox missionaries

Greek Christian missionaries

Greek expatriates in Finland

Greek expatriates in Russia

Russian Orthodox monks

Saints of medieval Greece

References