Today is ATANASOVDEN (St. Athanasius Day)

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Today is ATANASOVDEN (St. Athanasius Day)

1/18/2023 8:00:00 AM

January 18 the Orthodox Church honors St. Atanasius The Great - a holiday connected with the New Year?s rites. According to the traditional beliefs, St. Atanasius is the ruler of snow and ice. Dressed in a silk shirt he ascends the mountain, riding his white horse and exclaims: ?Winter, go away; Summer, come again!? That?s why this holiday is also known as the Mid-winter Day. St. Atanasius? Day, just like the preceding St. Anthony?s Day, is a holiday of the blacksmiths, ironmongers, cutters and shoeing smiths. St. Atanasius is the patron of blacksmiths and he symbolizes immortality.

September 22nd - Independence Day

9/22/2023 9:00:00 AM

September 22nd, 1908, Bulgarian Knjaz Ferdinand declared the Independence of Bulgaria in the former capital of Bulgaria.

VYARA, NADEZHDA and LYUBOV (Faith, Hope and Love) and their mother SOPHIA

9/17/2023 8:00:00 AM

Name day of everyone named Vyara, Vera, Veronika, Nadezhda, Nadya, Lyuben, Lyubomir, Lyuba, Sophia, Sofka, Sevda.

Back to school

9/15/2023 9:00:00 AM

School opening day in Bulgaria

KRUSTOVDEN (The Holy Cross Day)

9/14/2023 8:00:00 AM

Name day of everyone named Krustina, Krustyo, Krustan, Kancho, Stavri.

Anniversary in our history: in 924 AD the BG Tsar Simeon I the Great and the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos agreed on a temporary peace

9/10/2023 8:00:00 AM

In 924 AD the BG Tsar Simeon I the Great and the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos agreed on a temporary peace ouside the walls of Constantinople.

BIRTH OF THE HOLY MOTHER (also known as “Nativity of the Theotokos”)

9/8/2023 8:00:00 AM

According to the traditional celebration of the birth of the Holy Mother, on the eve of the holiday the ones that are sick and ailing should make a votive oath.

Anniversary of the Unification of Bulgaria

9/6/2023 8:00:00 AM

The Unification of Bulgaria was the act of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the then-Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885.

St Simeon,s Day

9/1/2023 8:00:00 AM

Name day of everyone named Simeon, Simona or Marta (although Marta would rather celebrate on March 1).

SEKNOVENIE / EQUINOX (also known as Black Saint John)

8/29/2023 8:00:00 AM

People honor this day as the Equinox (meaning even day, i.e. the length of the day equals the length of the night).

Anniversary of the death of Tsar Boris III

8/28/2023 9:00:00 AM

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 - August 28, 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver, son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication ...

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