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Today is ANTONOVDEN (St. Anthony`s Day)
1/17/2024 9:00:00 AM
People celebrate this day and are forbidden to work as a protection against the plague. Young brides get up at dawn and bake breads called `choumini` (meaning `of plague`). They spread honey on them ?to please the old lady, the Plague?, and give them away around the neighbourhood for the health of people and animals. One loaf of bread is always left on the attic to chase away the illnesses.
According to the Christian calendar, St. Anton`s Day should be celebrated to protect people from illnesses. On this day women do not spin, knit and cook beans, corn and lentil, because they might make the diseases angry. According to the legends the twin brothers Anton and Atanas were blacksmiths and were the first to invent the blacksmith`s tongs. Anton`s Day is celebrated as a holiday of the blacksmiths, ironmongers, cutters and shoeing smiths.
January 17th is the feast of St. Anton/St. Anthony the Great (born ar. 260 AD). According to his biographer, Atanasius of Alexandria, St. Anthony spent 20 years in complete isolation in a secluded ruined building amidst the desert. He was visited by sick and suffering people and he talked for hours to them. He fought against the Aryan movement denying the holy origin of Jesus, and in an open dispute he managed to win over the proponents of Aryanism. After his death, his relics were moved to Vienna to be kept there.
A magic youth drink discovered by Plovdiv scientists
7/22/2003 12:00:00 AM
A team led by Prof. Maria Baltadjieva created the new bio-stimulator. It is of dairy origin, and is based on pre-biotic bacteria mixed with some biologically active protector that preserves the micro-...
Reconstruction of old fountains and construction of new ones in Plovdiv
7/21/2003 12:00:00 AM
Plovdiv hopes for some cooler places for the summer, thanks to the efforts of the Sofia-based company ?Holis?, owned by Arch. Snezhana Veleva, and, of course, of the Municipality that is funding th...
Vassil Levski - Bulgarian National Hero
7/18/2003 12:00:00 AM
It is 166 years since the birth of Levski\r\nVassil Ivanov Kunchev - Levski18.07.1837 - 19.02.1873Vassil Levski, whom the present-day Bulgarians consider their greatest national...
Dobromir Rahnev, Plovdiv, BULGARIA ? First prize in the 44th International Mathematical Olympiad'2003
7/17/2003 12:00:00 AM
International Mathematical Olympiad?2003, Japan, TokyoFirst prize: Dobromir Rahnev, Plovdiv, BULGARIAHe is finishing the Mathematical School Secondary of Plovdiv this year and it is the cus...
The Bulgarian mountaineer Mr.Nikolay Petkov
7/15/2003 12:00:00 AM
The narrow edge between the reasonable and unreasonable risk must not be crossed over. We have to be wise and brave towards Mount Everest, says Nikolay Petkov\r\nNikolay Petkov was born in 1...
International painting plain-air in Plovdiv (6 - 10 July'03)
7/10/2003 12:00:00 AM
The followin acftititie was carried out in Plovdiv this week - International painting plain-air.It are organasing annually in Old Town by Municipality Plovdiv-Department "Culture&quo...
STARINNA GALLERY, OLD TOWN-PLOVDIV, BULGARIA
7/9/2003 12:00:00 AM
"STARINNA" GALLERY2, January Str.Old Town - PlovdivBULGARIAThe Trust of Arts & Crafts Masters.Starinna galery offers products rom the masters of arts and crafts. Here you wi...
Foreign Tourists Spent US$ 224 M in Bulgaria
7/8/2003 12:00:00 AM
In the first four months of 2003 the revenues from international tourism in Bulgaria amount to US$ 224 m...
PYGMALION PRESS, Plovdiv
7/7/2003 12:00:00 AM
We would like to present you PYGMALION press, Plovdiv and its second revised edition ?Plovdiv into The New Millennium? .Pygmalion Press was established in October 1992 in Plovdiv.One of&nbs...
A bikers' gathering in Plovdiv
7/6/2003 12:00:00 AM
Bikers Drained 7,000 Bottles of BeerMotors roaring, hard rock, beer and grill galore, responsive girls, this is what a bikers' gathering is. The biggest is in Plovdiv. The Wind's Sons...
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