Today the Bulgarian Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Anthony the Great. Bulgarians call the day Antonovden. St. Anthony was born about 251 in a wealthy Egyptian family and when he lost his parents at the age of 20, he distributed his inheritance and began an ascetic life.
Anthony had the gift of working miracles and the ability to cast out demons. When he healed the sick, he urged them to give thanks only to God. A year before he passed away at the age of 105, the saint defeated the heretics in Alexandria in an open dispute and his success was called "celebration of Christianity."
People named Anton, Andon, Doncho, Antonia, Antoaneta, Donka and others celebrate on January 17.
The exhibition "Catholics in Bulgaria XVII-XXI Century" is opening today at the National Library "Saints Cyril and Methodius". The exhibition presents literary and documentary evidence in the National Library's collection of the literary heritage..
According to the 2021 census, almost 11% of the Bulgarian population, or about 639 000 people, identify themselves as Muslims, with the Turkish population alone accounting for 508 378 people. Most of the Muslim population lives in north-eastern Bulgaria..
From April 5 to 7, the town of Hisarya in the Plovdiv region will host the first festival of antiquity "Diocletianopolis - Crossroads of Time", the municipality announced. The aim of the festival is to show what life was like in ancient Diocletianopolis..
After the Liberation in 1878, Bulgaria began to develop at a pace that would make up for the centuries-long absence from the world history map. Young..
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