A most unlikely saints’ day falls on August 13 – the memorial of St Pontian, a Pope, and St Hippolytus, an anti-pope. Hippolytus was not made a saint because he was an anti-pope. He was a ...
The Pontian dialect belongs to the Modern Greek dialects and is the language that was developed and cultivated by the Greeks on the Black Sea coast. Words of ancient Greek, having travelled a ...