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Today, though the onset of modern mass communication like radio, television and the Internet has decreased the breadth of church bells' communicative role, they nevertheless retain much of their original meaning.
In the Middle Ages, the typical European town was built around its church. The church bells announced certain community events and called the townspeople to prayer and Mass. In Medieval churches, different rings and bells indicated feast days, the type of church service and if a sermon would be preached.
According to Bishop Michael Pfeifer of the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, bells were meant to symbolize God's voice calling the people to prayer, to church services and to Christ. Several churches continue to ring their bells as calls to prayer and mass. Several churches signal the Angelus prayer with three sets of three chimes. Additionally, churches often ring bells at the start of church services.
This rest is lasting and is not swayed by the harried world and its constant turmoil. Rather, it is a rest ending in heaven, the place of true, eternal rest. Church bells, like every part of the church building, should convey the reason the building exists. We are, after all, only humans, and we need tangible and aural reminders of things unseen.
The bells summon us with their peals. They claim our attention and call us to enter the building where we hear the Gospel proclaimed and our sins forgiven. Even if all churches crumbled into heaps of rubble, the Gospel would still be proclaimed and God would still dwell with His people. And this is the joy of church bells. Their pealing invites us to a building that tells us with every wall and window that it, in the end, is inconsequential. It is not a proud and pompous skyscraper making its mark on modernity.
It is, rather, a structure advertising its own defeat. Like the bell tower at my church, all church structures will eventually crumble and fall, and we know it. Because, in the end, the bells call us to Christ, not to the buildings here on earth. Christ will provide an eternal structure for us in heaven. Perhaps the fallen bell tower at my church speaks just as loudly as all tall-standing bell towers and all loud-ringing church bells. His ancestry was Cuman. Both nations sadly present their own version of history full of inaccuracies.
And that name translates to Hunyadi Janos, a Hungarian patriot. Well, almost true. The important army was that of Transylvania not of Hungary, which was an autonomous region, and the army was composed in majority of Romanians Vlachs. This is also why when in Hungary was occupied, Transylvania was not. Janos or Iancu in romanian was the Transylvanian ruler at that point in time and because there was no Hungarian king at age, he was also the current regent of Hungary.
His son is Mathias and he will become king of Hungary. I cannot say that Matthias was Romanian because he did not consider himself so. Iancu was the uncle of Stefan III the great of Moldova, one of the most important rulers of Moldova and also the uncle of Vlad the Impaler the one taht created the vampire.
Vlad and Stefan were cousins. The families were very much related. They were also catholics, not Eastern Orthodox, as the Vlachs. The army had indeed peasants in its composition, but few data regarding their ethnicity remained. Most likely they were Hungarians and Serbs. Either way, the winners of the battle were the knights and not these auxiliary troops. I had know idea that tradition had such a rich history. That time it was almost independent.
The Austro Hungary did not exist yet at that time Serbia was destroyed at Kosovopoljie some years back and since then they were under a semi occupation by Otomans. They were independent with name but practically occupied. This is why they allied themselves with the Vlachs lower part of Romania the Vidin tarate actual north west Bulgaria and Transylvania which was an autonomous entity inside Hungary and had a very serious army — in transylvania there were germans which knew how to make modern arms, that combined with romanians which were always good at fighting and a geographical position inside a mountainous regios made Transylvania a very safe place difficult to conquer This coalition was usually led by the Transilvanian ruler because they had the important army and money.
It was not the first time this coalition existed. Same was done in which did not end well at Nicopole. After the fall of Hungary in the coalition went into defence since most of the regions were occupied and Vlachia and Moldova were having rulers in line with Ottoman policy usually — from time to time there were some that tried again but the frequency decreased.
Thanks for the interesting history.
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