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The title says it. I would be really grateful if someone could translate the images 1, 2 and 3 and tell me who are represented on the images 1 and 3.
Thanks in advance.
Could someone please help me translating what's written on these images please?
TranslationЭто церковнославянский конечно же. Этот язык используется до сих пор.
Ангеле Божий, хранителю мой святый, буди ми помощник и заступник
Царь Славы Единородный Сын Божий, Господи Иисусе Христе помилуй нас
Великий святителю Николае, святый Николай архиепископ Мир Ликийских чудотворец, со ангел предстоя присно моли непрестанно о всех нас.
Переведите кто-нибудь на Английский покрасивше.
u/IgnisDivinus where did you get that photo?
Oh thank you! It's a friend of mine that makes prayer ropes and gifted me some crosses.
2) Only begotten son of God, O Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us
1 and 3 are almost unreadable for anyone not adept at reading Church Slavonic. 3 is most certainly Saint Nicholas, 1 is probably a guardian angel.
- Ангеле Божий, Хранителю мой святый, буди ми помощник и заступи ми (мя?). Something like that.
Last one picture is is written in Church Slavonic, a script that today is known to few people besides some clergy working in archives.
Top horizontal line: "Великий Святитель Николай"
Left vertical line: "Стълпъ и утвьрждениє истины чудотворець"
Right vertical line: "Святый отче Николае моли Бога о насъ"
Bottom horizontal line: "Собглъ предстателе о всѣхъ насъ"
Explanation of the inscriptions:
"Великий Святитель Николай": Refers to the great Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, known for his charity and miracles.
"Стълпъ и утвьрждениє истины чудотворець": Indicates that Saint Nicholas is a pillar (support) and confirmation of truth, as well as a miracle worker.
"Святый отче Николае моли Бога о насъ": This is a prayer to Saint Nicholas asking him to pray to God for all believers.
"Собглъ предстателе о всѣхъ насъ": Indicates that Saint Nicholas is an intercessor before God for all people.
I think that in all of Russia, out of 140 million people, no more than 2000-3000 will be able to read this. Because it is Church Slavonic, not Russian.
The Church Slavonic language, which was previously spoken and written in Rus', is now more similar to Bulgarian than to Russian.
Only your #1 is correct. It says: Великий святителю Николае. Святый Николаи архиепископ Мир Ликийских чудотворец со ангелы предстоя присно моли непрестанно о всех нас. Not a word about pillars.
Your approximation about popularity of church-slavonic in Russia is also incorrect. There are at least 40000 of clerics who passed a church-slavonic exam to become cleric. Also monks and all sorts of religious people. I'd say it would be over 200000 of church-slavonic readers in Russia.
I don't know Old Church Slavonic very well. Maybe you're right. In any case, we tried to help this guy.
Все (не все, многие) православные как правило знают церковнославянский, и таких людей уж точно не 2-3 тысячи.
— Вы православный? — Да. — В бога верите? — Нет.
Я бы сказал, многие воцерковленные православные поверхностно понимают церковно-славянский. Формулировка «все православные» слишком обширная, чтобы быть точной.
Согласен. Исправил.
Как это смешно :) Вы ещё скажите, что православные читают книги исключительно на старославянском языке, ага :) 99,9999% православных не отличат букву добро от буквы веди. Сказки такие можете бабушкам у подъезда рассказывать 😅
As mentioned, it's church-slavonic: 1. An icon of guardian angel.
„O, God's Angel, my saint guardian, be my helper and protector“
- Jesus
„King of glory / JS CH / only begotten God's Son / O, Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us“
- That's Saint Nicholas.
„Great saint bishop Nicholas / O, saint Nicholas, the archbishop of Myra of Lycia, the miracle man, facing (God) with angels perpetually pray unto God for us“
Could you, please, write a cyrillic transcription of #1 and #3? I was only able to read the very beginning, so I'm interested in "deciphering" the rest of the text.
Some words are reduced with special diacritical marks. Lettering is also very fancy. I write full speaking version using modern letters, spaces, line breaks. 1. Ангеле Божий / хранителю мой святый / буди ми помощникъ и заступникъ 2. Царь славы / ИС ХС / единородный сынъ божий / Господи Иисусе Христе помилуй нас 3. Великий святителю Николае / Святый Николаи архиепископ Мир Ликийских чудотворец / со ангелы предстоя присно моли непрестанно о всех нас
Thank you so much! This is very helpful. The reduced words are usually fine, as they are the more common ones, so they are easy to recognise. It's usually the lack of spaces between words that throws me off.
I see your tag saying B2 in Church Slavonic. Are there any learning resources that you could recommend, online or otherwise?
You are very welcome.
Here, have a textbook: Миронова. Учебник. Церковно-славянский язык.
Online dictionary: Церковно-славянский словарь онлайн.
Nice modern ch-slav source: ЗЕЛО
These are brilliant. Much appreciated!
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It's not in Russian
Russian is my first language and I didn't understand a thing, except "единородный" on the second image which Google translates to "only begotten"
Your clue might be Old Church Slavonic language