9. Answer the questions:

1. Who was Predslava's mother? 2. Whose granddaughter of Evfrosiniya? 3. When was she born? 4. What was she famous for? 5- Did she want to marry anybody? 6. How old was she at that time? 7. Where did she go? 8. Did she become a nun? 9. What name did she get as a nun? 10. Where did Fvfrosiniya move to? 11. What did she do there? 12. What happened on August 6, 1124? 13. What was opened in the vent? 14. Who was educated at that school? 15. Who organized the monastery for men? 16. When did Evfrosiniya take a pilgrimage to Jerusalem? 17. Why did she go to Jerusalem? 18. Was she ill? 19. When did she pass away? 20. Where was she buried? 21. Who besieged the city of Jerusalem? 22. What did he allow the monks to do? 23. Where had the miracle-working relics been since that time? 24. When were the relics transferred to Polotsk ? 25. Where are her miracle-working relics now? 26. When was the Cross of Efrosiniya restored and placed in Polotsk? 27. What monument was opened in Polotsk in 2000?

10. Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1. Princess Sophia and Vladimir Monomakh were St Evfrosiniya's parents. 2. Evfrosiniya was a sister of Yaroslav the Wise. 3. In her childhood princess Predslava was a very clever girl. 4. A very rich man wanted to marry her when she was sixteen. 5. Predslava went to visit her aunt and the pother Superior suggested Predslava to become a nun. 6. Evfrosiniya moved in the Church of St Sophia to give lessons to the nuns. 7. The monastery for men was founded in 1126 in the name of St Evfrosiniya. 8. St Evfrosiniya was very ill and she made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to recover 9. She was buried in Kiev-Pecherskaya Monastery. 10. In 1910 the miracle-working relics were transferred to Polotsk into the Cathedral of the Saviour. 11. The monks from Kiev- Pecherskaya Monastery presented the Spaso-Evfrosiniya Church in Polotsk with the Cross of Evfrosiniya in 1998.

11. Complete the sentences using text:

It has been stated by……………. .

It was noted that ……………….. .

It was named after ………………. .

It was raised by ………………… .

It was built by …………………. .

It has become one of ……………. .

12. Prove that:

• Predslava was very beautiful;

• the Egyptian sultan respected the sacred Christian

• objects;

• St Evfrosiniya is highly respected by Belarusian people.

13. Comprehension check. Choose the best alternative according to the text:

1. It has been stated by some historians that

1. princess Sophia, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, was St Evfrosiniya's mother;

2. princess Sophia, daughter of Vladimir Monoma- kh, was St Evfrosiniya's mother;

3. princess Sophia, granddaughter of Vladimir Monomakh, was St Evfrosiniya's mother.

2. Since her childhood princess Predslava had been noted for

1. common sense, education and beauty;

2. her extraordinary wisdom, education and beauty;

3. business acumen, education and beauty.

3. Many young men

1. were eager to marry her;

2. were eager to help her;

3. were afraid of her wisdom.

4. At the time when her father wanted to marry her off, Predslava was only a) 21;

2. 10;

3. 12.

5. Predslava went to the Mother Superior because she

1. was missing her;

2. visited her every week;

3. didn't want to get married.

6 After a serious talk with the girl the Mother Superior

1. decided to talk her father out of marrying Pred­ slava off;

2. decided to admit Predslava to monastic vows;

3. decided to talk her father into marrying Pred­ slava off.

7. After a talk with the bishop of Polotsk St Evfrosiniya

1. moved in the Church of St Sophia in Polotsk;

2. moved in the Cathedral of the Saviour;

3. decided that she should return to her family.

8. Living in the Church of St Sophia Evfrosiniya

1. read a lot and taught young nuns;

2. read a lot and taught young monks;

3. read a lot in English and French.

9. In 1150 St Evfrosiniya

1. moved to Kiev-Pecherskaya Monastery;

2. became the prioress of the Church of St Sophia;

3. organized a monastery for men.

10. St Evfrosiniya undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy because

a) she had some religious aims;

b) the Mother Superior was there at that time

c) she had fallen seriously ill.

11. The Saint passed away on May 23, 1167 and

a) her body was transferred to her Motherland

b) was buried in St Theodosius monastery in Jerusalem;

c) there was nobody to bury her.

12. When the Egyptian sultan besieged the Holy Ci ty of Jerusalem he

a) destroyed the sacred Christian objects;

b) killed all monks in the city of Jerusalem;

c) allowed the monks to take the sacred Christian objects away from Jerusalem.

13. In 1910 the miracle-working relics of St Evfrosiniya

a) were transferred to Kiev-Pecherskaya Monastery;

b) were returned to the Holy City of Jerusalem;

c) were transferred into the Cathedral o th Saviour in Polotsk.

14. Paying tribute to that great woman, the Belarussians

a) restored the Cross of Evfrosiniynya and placed it in the Spaso-Evfrosiniya Church;

b) built a monument to St Evfrosiniya in ho centre of Minsk;

c) opened a museum of St Evfrosinia in Polotsk.