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356: 499:), Euthymius was the one entrusted with the defense of Tarnovo. After a three-month siege on 17 July 1393, the Ottomans captured the capital despite its ferocious resistance; Gregory Tsamblak several years later suggested the conquest was due to treason from one of the non-Christian neighborhoods of Tarnovo. 46: 382:
When he had destroyed all the old , this second lawgiver, descending from the top of the spiritual mountain and carrying in his hands (similar to the Tablets written by God) at which he had labored, delivered to the Church in truth a heavenly treasure – all new, all true, in accord with the Gospel,
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unshakable in the force of the dogmas, like the water of life for the souls of the pious, like a knife for the tongues of the heretics, like fire for their faces. And he cried out with Paul: ‘The old has passed away. Behold! Everything has become new’ .
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During the time of patriarch Theodosius of Tarnovo Euthymius founded and ran the Tarnovo literary school, which was to quickly become an important cultural center of the Slavic Christian world.
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on Mount Athos. It was there that he first reflected on the spelling reforms and planned corrections to the translations of the clerical books.
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that was widely influential to the standardized literary languages of Serbia, Walachia, Moldova, and the Russian principalities.
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In 1375, following the death of Patriarch Joanicius, Euthymius was elected to become his successor. A supporter of
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Born around 1325 (between 1320 and 1330) and possibly an offspring of the eminent Tsamblak family of the capital
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and moral decay. Euthymius became a prominent figure in the Orthodox world and a number of
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H. Goldblatt, Orthography and Orthodoxy: Constantine Kostenecki's Treatise on the Letters
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rules and corrected inaccurately translated religious books by comparing them to the
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were massacred, but Patriarch Euthymius was reprieved and sent into exile in the
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originals. These corrected texts became models for the Orthodox churches using
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between 1375 and 1393. Regarded as one of the most important figures of
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out of the city (leading the remnants of his troops to the fortress of
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and his memory is honored on the same day as that of his namesake
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to the Bulgarian capital Tarnovo with his sizable forces. With
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describes Euthymius' language reform in the following manner.
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Establishment of Tarnovo Literary School and language reform
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Around 1371 Euthymius returned to Bulgaria and founded the
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Ivanova, Kl. (1986) (in Bulgarian). Патриарх Евтимий. С.
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Evtimiy of Tarnovo

Tarnovo
Bulgarian Empire
Bachkovo Monastery
Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast
Bulgarian
Patriarch of Bulgaria
medieval
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Second Bulgarian Empire
hesychasm
Eastern Orthodox
Tarnovo
monk
Kilifarevo Monastery
Theodosius of Tarnovo
Tsarigrad
Studion
Great Lavra
Athanasius the Athonite
Mount Athos
Gregory the Sinaite
Gregory Palamas
Callistus Philotheus
John Kukuzelis
Lemnos
Byzantine Emperor

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