Today, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, known in popular tradition as "Malka Bogoroditsa"", the small feast of the Theotokos. Church tradition says that God heard the prayers of the elderly parents of Christ's mother and blessed them with a daughter after long years of childlessness. The Virgin Mary was heralded as a blessing to people and that through her salvation would be given to the whole world.
On December 9th we celebrate St. Anna - the mother of the Virgin Mary. Joachim and Anna had been childless for many years and prayed to God to grant them a baby. One day an angel of the Lord appeared to Anna and told her that she would give birth to..
The National Ethnographic Museum now has a digital ethnographic map of Bulgaria presenting the artifcats it has collected through the years. The map shows – comprehensivley and region by region – elements of the movable and intangible ethnographic..
Not long ago, just a month ago, the Russian Church in Sofia consecrated as St. Nicholas Mirlikiysky the Miracle Worker welcomed with joy its new superior - Archpriest Vladimir Tishchuk. Like his grandfather and father, he is a hereditary priest and from..
On December 9th we celebrate St. Anna - the mother of the Virgin Mary. Joachim and Anna had been childless for many years and prayed to God to grant..
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