On 2 February the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates Candlemas – one of the 12 major feast days of the year. It is also called Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ and Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It falls on the 40th day after the birth of Jesus Christ.
According to the law of Moses, the first-born boy had to be presented to God 40 days after birth. On this day Virgin Mary took the young Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem and presented two doves as an offering.
Christian Europe is alive and attempts to de-Christianize and dehumanize it will not succeed, reads the position of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church about the opening of the Olympics in Paris. "All Christendom was..
On July 27, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and people glorify the work of the seven saints- the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, and their disciples Saints Kliment, Naum, Sava, Gorazd and Angelarius. The day was chosen by the church..
On the road leading from Sofia to Samokov upstream the Iskar River near the big picturesque bend between the former villages of Kokalyane and Pasarel at the Devil's Bridge is the Srednoberdie Ridge. There the Vedena River flows into the Iskar and the..
Christian Europe is alive and attempts to de-Christianize and dehumanize it will not succeed, reads the position of the Holy Synod of..
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