The old historic town of Messemvria, today’s Nessebur, is located some 20 km north of the city of Bourgas on a rocky peninsula, where the old town has remained preserved - narrow cobblestone lanes, tiny squares, two-storied houses having external staircases, with stone-built ground levels and wooden upper floors, jutting above the streets, gift shops, pubs, taverns and lovely gardens. The Old Town offers magnificent walking streets right around ...

Name day of everyone named Matey. St. Matthew (meaning "gift of God") was identified as a tax collector, and was of Jewish race. In the other accounts of his meeting with Jesus, he is called Levi. This use of two different names has led some scholars to argue for two different persons, due to the absence of Levi from the apostolic lists. Others, however, have argued that Matthew had a double name, because the Jews frequently carried two names - ...