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Christian feast day: Stephen of Perm, see also Old Permic Alphabet Day
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Stephen of Perm
Russian painter, missionary, and saint (1340–1396)
Stephen of Perm was a Russian Orthodox bishop, painter and missionary. He is known as being one of the most successful missionaries of the Russian Orthodox Church. Stephen is credited with the conversion of the Komi peoples to Christianity. He settled in Ust-Vym and became the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Old Permic script
Alphabet used to write Komi
The Old Permic script, sometimes known by its initial two characters as Abur or Anbur, is a "highly idiosyncratic adaptation" of the Cyrillic script once used to write medieval Komi.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)