Wahlweise freigestellter Feiertag
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Sonntag 9 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : Orthodox Palm Sunday Christian civil servants only
Orthodoxer Karfreitag
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Freitag 14 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : 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
Karfreitag
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Freitag 14 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : 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.
Wahlweise freigestellter Feiertag
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Freitag 14 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : Orthodox Good Friday only observed by the Orthodox community
Orthodoxen Karsamstag
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Samstag 15 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : Not a paid holiday
Orthodoxes Osterfest
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Sonntag 16 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : Wird nur von Orthodoxen gefeiert Paid holiday
Orthodoxes Osterfest
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Montag 17 April, 2023
Orthodoxe :
Ostermontag des orthodoxen Osterfestes
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Montag 17 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : Das rote Osterei ist das Wahrzeichen von Ostern (oder Paste). Jeweils ein Ei vor dem Ostermittagessen. Jeder, der das letzte unzerbrochene Ei hat, soll ein Jahr nur Glück haben. Der traditonelle orthodoxe Ostergruß lautet: Christ is Risen! (Christus ist auferstanden). Die Antwort lautet: Indeed He is Risen (Ja, er ist auferstanden).
Allerheiligen
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Montag 24 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : 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.
Totensonntag
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Montag 24 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : Feierte am Sonntag in einigen Städten.
Allerheiligen
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Dienstag 25 April, 2023
Orthodoxe : 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
Wahlweise freigestellter Feiertag
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Dienstag 16 Mai, 2023
Orthodoxe : Orthodox Easter
St Cyril & Saint Method
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Mittwoch 24 Mai, 2023
Orthodoxe : 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.
Pfingstmontag
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Montag 5 Juni, 2023
Orthodoxe :
St Cyril & Saint Method
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Mittwoch 5 Juli, 2023
Orthodoxe : Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity in Khazaria and Great Moravia. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into this language. Wikipedia
Dormition der Jungfrau
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Dienstag 15 August, 2023
Orthodoxe : 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 . seit 2008
Wahlweise freigestellter Feiertag
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Montag 28 August, 2023
Orthodoxe : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community