Meatfare Sunday is a moveable feast, whose date depends on Easter, falling on the Sunday 8 weeks before Easter. On Meatfare Sunday the family dinner includes meat, hence the name of the feast day.
One of the traditions on this day is to visit the bride’s godfather and parents, and take them boiled chicken, bread and wine. Pork with sauerkraut, cabbage leaves with meat filling or banitsa, made with animal fat are on the menu of the festive dinner. It is the last time that Orthodox Christians who observe Lent are allowed to put meat on the table before Easter which this year falls on 19 April.
One of the three biggest Hebrew holidays, Pesach (Passover) starts at sundown (5 PM) on 22 April and ends on 30 April. It is a movable feast, falling after the 14 th day of the spring month of Nisan which starts after the spring equinox with the..
The founder of the Internal Revolutionary Organisation for the Liberation of Bulgaria, Vasil Levski, was the first to involve foreigners in the liberation movement when he set up revolutionary committees in the Bulgarian provinces. The first foreign..
"Man does not know the way to heaven, but the horse does," says an ancient Thracian proverb. That is why the Thracian kings were necessarily sent to the afterlife together with their horses. Because of the numerous burial mounds of rulers from the..
One of the three biggest Hebrew holidays, Pesach (Passover) starts at sundown (5 PM) on 22 April and ends on 30 April. It is a movable feast, falling..
The founder of the Internal Revolutionary Organisation for the Liberation of Bulgaria, Vasil Levski, was the first to involve foreigners in the liberation..
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