Daily Calendar - July 10

The 191st day of the year, 174 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of the Holy Hieromartyr Kirion II, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, the Venerable Father of Ours, George of Mtatsminda (1065); St. Sevire the Hutsman of Italy (VI); the Venerable Samson the Host (c. 530), the Righteous Joan of Menelsatskhebli.

The Venerable Father George of Mtatsminda was born in 1009 in Trialeti, into a noble family. His mother's name was Mariam, and his father's name was Jacob.

When the child was seven years old, his parents sent him to the monastery of the temple nuns, where his sister Thecla was also growing up. There, Saint George spent three years, and during that time God miraculously saved him from death twice.

In 1019, at the request of his uncles, Giorgi the Writer and Saba, who worked in the Khakhuli Monastery, he became a disciple of the famous monk Hilarion Tualeli.

In 1022, Saint George was sent to Constantinople, where he diligently studied the sciences for 12 years and received a versatile education.

In 1034, Giorgi, returning to Georgia, was tonsured a monk at the Khakhuli Monastery, later he traveled to Palestine. Then he went to the Simeon Sakvirvelmteli Monastery on Sakvirveli Mountain. There he chose the Georgian monk Giorgi Shekveli as his spiritual guide, and then, with his blessing, went to the Iveria Monastery on Mount Athos. On the way, he also visited Jerusalem and prayed at the Tomb of the Savior. George arrived in Athos in 1040 and continued translating the Holy Scriptures. In 1044, he was elected abbot of the Iverian Monastery on Mount Athos.

George the Holy One was constantly thinking about the future of the Georgian nation. At the invitation of Bagrat IV-ÉÓ, George arrived in Georgia, selected 80 talented young men and traveled with them to Athos. On the way, he became ill and the saint peacefully gave up his soul to the Lord. This happened in 1065. His body was respectfully transferred to Athos. During his repose, Georgians were visited by many miracles.

Born:

1509 _ Jean Calvin, French religious reformer. Died in 1564.

1830 _ Camille Pissarro, French impressionist painter. Died in 1903.

1856 _ Nikola Tesla, American inventor. Died in 1943.

1861 _ Ilia Peradze, teacher and public figure, died in 1928.

1871 _ Marcel Proust, famous French writer. Died in 1922.

1915 _ Saul Bellow, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1921 _ Revaz Laghidze, prominent composer, died in 1981.

1926 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian politician, died in 2003.

1937 _ Medea Kuchukhidze, theater director.

Died:

1812 _ Johann Halley, German astronomer. Discovered the planet Neptune in 1846.

1915 _ Vazha-Pshavela, a prominent poet and writer.

Events:

983 _ The Iver Monastery of Mount Athos was founded, the most important center of ancient Georgian writing and culture, on Mount Athos, on the Chalcedon Peninsula (Greece).

1774 _ The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji was signed. The Russo-Ottoman War of 1768-1774 ended. The Ottoman Empire refused to collect tribute from Western Georgia.

1900 _ The Paris Metro was opened.

1992 _ Former Panamanian President General Noriega was sentenced in Miami to 40 years in prison for participating in the drug trade.