The Cove of Worship is a feast established by lay people according to a vow , i.e., a promise made for religious reasons. Most often, the holiday was organized in honor of the saint with whom they associated the cessation of disasters [1] .
| Cherished holiday | |
|---|---|
| Type of | People's Christian |
| Otherwise | pilgrimage, prayer, prayer, vows |
| Value | holiday village or city |
| Celebrated | Christians |
| Traditions | common worldly prayer, sometimes a procession ; common village meal |
| Associated with | more often with a spring holiday |
Content
Other names
A pilgrimage, a prayer, a prayer, a vowing feast, a promised, doomed, final day, a reserved, worldly feast [2] .
Traditions
The reason for the establishment of the holiday was the deliverance of the inhabitants of the village or city from any natural disaster: fire, flood, drought, epidemic or other major misfortunes. It was a kind of gratitude to God or the saint for salvation from disaster. Sometimes the cherished holidays were established on the occasion of the appearance of the icon, which was regarded as God's mercy and required reciprocal gratitude [3] .
Most of the cherished holidays were in the spring or summer and coped with the "numbers", but they are also known to be related to the eighth or tenth Fridays on Easter , either timed to coincide with the week before Petrov or Ilin Day [4] .
On the cherished holiday, a worldly prayer service was sometimes performed, sometimes a procession. After the moleben, a village meal was held in clubbing . House beer, beer wort or eve - a drink made from flour with malt without hops, as well as a rich lunch were obligatory. It was not customary to invite guests to a cherished holiday, usually no dances and festivities were held, only in some places the youth arranged games, and only on the second day [5] .
Considered [by whom? ] , that by origin these are ancient pagan holidays, which were part of the festive cycle of the summer solstice, which eventually took on Christian forms [5] .
See also
- Feast day
- Record
- The fold
- Vow
Notes
- ↑ Shangina, 2004 , p. 177.
- ↑ Bushkevich, 1999 , p. 210.
- ↑ Shangina, 2003 , p. 470.
- ↑ Baranova et al., 2001 , p. 167.
- ↑ 1 2 Shangina, 2004 , p. 190.
Literature
- Baranova, O. G., Zimina, T. A., Madlevskaya, E. L., et al. Russian Holiday. Holidays and ceremonies of the national agricultural calendar. Illustrated Encyclopedia / Scientific. ed. I. I. Shangina. - SPb. : Art-SPB, 2001. - 668 p. - (History in the mirror of life). - ISBN 5-210-01497-5 .
- Sacrifice / S. Bushkevich. // Slavic Antiquities : Ethnolinguistic Dictionary: 5 t. / Total. ed. N.I. Tolstoy ; Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences . - M .: Int. relationship , 1999. - T. 2: D (Give) - K (Tiny). - p. 208–215. - ISBN 5-7133-0982-7 .
- Shangina I.I. Russian holidays: from Christmas time to Christmas time . - M .: ABC-Classic, 2004. - 270 p. - ISBN 535200984X . Archived September 18, 2011. Archived copy from September 18, 2011 on Wayback Machine
- Shangina I.I. The Russian people: weekdays and holidays. Encyclopedia. - SPb. : ABC Classic, 2003. - 552 p. - ISBN 5-352-00650-6 .
Links
- A cherished holiday (ethnomuseum.ru)
- Veps cherished holidays (finugor.ru)
- Patronal and cherished holidays (cultinfo.ru)