Nil Sorski (1433-1508)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/167136
- Name (English)
- Nil Sorski
- Short name
- Nilus of Sora
- Year of birth
- 1433
- Year of death
- 1508
- Short Description
- "Nil Sorsky (Russian: Нил Сорский, also Nilus of Sora and Nil Sorski; birth name: Nikolai Maikov (Russian: Николай Майков) (c. 1433 – 1508) became a leader of a tendency in the medieval Russian Orthodox Church known as the Non-possessors (nestyazhateli) which opposed ecclesiastic landownership. The Russian Orthodox Church venerates Nil Sorsky as a saint, marking his feast day on the anniversary of his repose on May 7." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.03.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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