Prawos≥awie : Orthodox Palm Sunday Christian civil servants only

Prawos≥awie : In Bulgaria, together with Christmas, Good Friday and Easter are the holiest days in the Orthodox calendar, and are observed with great solemnity. Churches all over the country are serving masses to mourn the crucified son of God. Fasting is especially strict on this day - the Church advises believers not to have any food at all, and to not even drink water. Few Bulgarians, however, are usually that strict.

Prawos≥awie : Orthodox Good Friday only observed by the Orthodox community

Prawos≥awie : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of Może być obchodzone jedynie przez miejscowš wspólnotę prawosławnš. The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of

Prawos≥awie : Not a paid holiday

Prawos≥awie : Sunday of Bright Week – didi shabati

Prawos≥awie : Only observed by the Orthodox community Paid holiday

Prawos≥awie :

Prawos≥awie : Pokolorowane na jasnoczerwono jajko jest symbolem œwišt Wielkanocnych(lub Paschy). Jaja kolorowane sš w Wielki Czwartek, po liturgii. Wielkanocny chleb jest œwięcony w Wielkš Sobotę podczas nabożeństwa obejmujšcego północne modlitwy, procesję, porannš liturgię. Po liturgii, jajka i chleb przyniesione przez wiernych sš œwięcone.

Prawos≥awie : Celebrowanej w niedzielę w niektórych miastach.

Prawos≥awie : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837.

Prawos≥awie : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. banks remain open

Prawos≥awie : Orthodox Easter

Prawos≥awie : Commemorates the creation of the Slavic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius. The celebration also commemorates the introduction of literacy and the preaching of the gospels in the Slavonic language by the brothers.

Prawos≥awie : From 2009

Prawos≥awie :

Prawos≥awie : Na Cyprze, Kataklysmos jest festiwal powodzi w miejscowościach nadmorskich

Prawos≥awie : Cyryl i Metody byli dwoma braćmi urodzonymi w Salonikach w Cesarstwie Bizantyńskim w IX wieku, którzy zostali misjonarzami chrześcijaństwa w Chazarii i Wielkich Morawach. Oboje udoskonalili alfabet słowiański, znany obecnie jako cyrylica, i przetłumaczyli liturgię na ten język.

Prawos≥awie : Adormirea Maicii Domnului refers to the feast commemorating what is believed to be the miraculous transport of Mary, in bodily form, to Heaven after her death. Some accounts claim that she died in Jerusalem; others put her death at the Graeco-Roman city of Ephesus, now in Turkey, and the site of an alleged House of the Virgin Mary . since 2008

Prawos≥awie : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community