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How Did a Patriarch's Reforms Fracture Russian Religious Life? - The Crisis of Seventeenth-Century Russian Orthodoxy | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the 1650s, men and women across Russia went to the stake, faced Siberian exile, and took up armed rebellion rather than change how they made the sign of the cross or spelled the name of Jesus. To a modern observer, this resistance over seemingly minor ritual details can look like sheer stubbornness. But in the world of seventeenth-century Russian Orthodoxy, ritual was not merely decoration. It was the very mechanism through which divine grace reached the human soul. To change the ritual…
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