Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the USSR regarding the Millennium of Ukraine's Christianity, scheduled to be commemorated in 1988. In his letter, John Paul II underscored the importance of preserving the Union of Brest, by expressing his respect for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic episcopate, clergy, and faithful who bore witness to injustice and persecution in the name of Christ and professed their faith in God and their Church. Simultaneously directing his address at the Soviet government, the pope invoked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by appealing to the authorities to allow each believer to profess his/her own faith and to participate in the communal life of the
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea ocean was discovered by Hippalus (1st century BCE). Many trade goods are mentioned in the "Periplus", but some of the words naming trade goods are seen nowhere else in ancient literature, and so we can only guess as to what they might be. For example, one trade good mentioned is ""lakkos chromatinos"". The name "lakkos" appears nowhere else in ancient Greek or Roman literature. The name re-surfaces in late medieval Latin as "lacca", borrowed from medieval Arabic "lakk" in turn borrowed from Sanskritic "lakh", meaning lac i.e. a red-colored resin native to India used as a lacquer and used also