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Modern icon of All Saints of Russia. The Feast of All Saints of Russia, [1] also known as The Feast Day of All Russian Saints [2] Resplendent in the Russian land (Russian: Собор всех святых, в земле Русской просиявших), is a day of remembrance celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church on the second Sunday after Pentecost.
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the feast of the death and Resurrection of Jesus, called Pascha (Easter), is the greatest of all holy days and as such it is called the "feast of feasts". Immediately below it in importance, there is a group of Twelve Great Feasts (Greek: Δωδεκάορτον).
The Orthodox Church does not require the manifestation of miracles, as it does in Roman Catholicism; what is required is evidence of a virtuous life and prior local veneration of the saint. [ 1 ] Because the Church shows no true distinction between the living and the dead, as the saints are considered to be alive in heaven , saints are referred ...
OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 6. January 7. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore.
Bartholomew, son of boyars; patron saint of Russia, spiritual and monastic reformer; became hermit and built the Holy Trinity Church amidst wood in Makovets; ate only prosphora, most of it gave to bears; gradually more henochs came to him, and so the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius was founded, the "Heart of Russia"; blessed Dmitry Donskoy for the ...
The Day of Saint Peter and Saint Fevronia (Russian: День Святых Петра и Февроньи / Den' Svyatyh Petra i Phevronii) also known as the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness (Russian: Де́нь семьи́, любви́ и ве́рности / Den' sem'i lyubvi i vernosti), the Orthodox patrons of marriage, was officially introduced in Russia in 2008.