Långfredagen
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Fredag 3 maj, 2024
Ortodox : From 2010 onwards
Karneval
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Fredag 3 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Orthodox Good Friday only observed by the Orthodox community
Ortodoxa långfredagenrn
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Fredag 3 maj, 2024
Ortodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
Ortodoxa Holy Saturday
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Lördag 4 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Not a paid holiday
Ortodox påsk
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Söndag 5 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Sunday of Bright Week didi shabati
Karneval
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Söndag 5 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Orthodox Easter
Ortodox påsk
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Söndag 5 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Paid holiday
Ortodox påsk
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Måndag 6 maj, 2024
Ortodox :
Ortodoxa annandag påsk
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Måndag 6 maj, 2024
Ortodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter(or Pascha).The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy.The Easter breads are a worldwide Orthodox tradition as well.This bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place:Midnight Office,Rush Procession,Matins & Divine Liturgy.After the service,the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home.The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days.One egg takes place before the Easter lunch.Each person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: Christ is Risen! .The answer is: Indeed He is Risen . May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
Påsktisdagen
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Tisdag 7 maj, 2024
Ortodox :
Alla helgons dag
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Måndag 13 maj, 2024
Ortodox : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837.
Alla själars dag
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Måndag 13 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Firade på söndagen i vissa städer
Alla helgons dag
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Tisdag 14 maj, 2024
Ortodox : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. banks remain open
St Cyrilus och St Methodius
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Fredag 24 maj, 2024
Ortodox : Commemorates the creation of the Slavic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets by the brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius. The celebration also commemorates the introduction of literacy and the preaching of the gospels in the Slavonic language by the brothers.
Den helige andes dag/Pingst/Kataklysmos/Radunitsa
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Måndag 24 juni, 2024
Ortodox : From 2009
Annandag pingst
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Måndag 24 juni, 2024
Ortodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns
Sankt Cyrilus och Sankt Methodius
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Fredag 5 juli, 2024
Ortodox :
Dormition av Jungfru
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Torsdag 15 augusti, 2024
Ortodox : Since 2008
Karneval
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Onsdag 28 augusti, 2024
Ortodox : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God) only observed by the Orthodox community