2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Today, Orthodox Christians celebrate Savior's Day, also known as the Ascension of the Lord.
Savior's Day is a moving Christian holiday that is celebrated 40 days after Easter and marks the moment when Jesus Christ ascends to heaven. On Savior's Day they celebrate and all bakers and confectioners.
For the first time the feast of bakers and confectioners is officially celebrated in 1915 at the suggestion of the Union of Bread. Folk beliefs dictate that a sacrifice be made today and that ritual cakes of bread and boiled wheat be distributed for health.
Besides bakers and confectioners today name day have Spas, Spasimir, Spasena, Spasimira, Spaska and Spasiana. Drivers also have a professional holiday today.
Photo: Maria Simova
It is no coincidence that bakers celebrate on Ascension of the Lord. For Bulgarians, bread is sacred and irreplaceable, and the word bread in many cases means eating, feeding. Bread embodies the ideas of natural processes - birth, death and resurrection - a new beginning.
Bread is a part not only of the daily, but also of the festive table, as for every folk custom and every truly important event a loaf is kneaded. Bread is kneaded on all major church holidays - Christmas Eve, Christmas, St. George's Day, Trifon Zarezan, St. Todor's Day, Babinden and of course - Spasovden.
According to the New Testament, 40 days after his resurrection, Christ remained on earth to preach his doctrine and converse with the apostles. The holiday is called Savior's Day, because it is with the ascension of Christ that the act of human salvation ends.
On the fortieth day of the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples for the last time, leading them out of the city into the Mount of Olives, two kilometers from Jerusalem.
Blessing them, Jesus separated from the earth and rose from the cloud, slowly ascending to heaven. The apostles bowed and could not take their eyes off the incredible sight.
According to Bulgarian traditional beliefs, on the 40th day of Easter, fairies come and pick and decorate with the dew that blossomed during the night.
It is believed that dew and childless people are treated with dew. If it rains today, the year will be rich and the harvest abundant.
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