What is a Christian holiday on August 2. The second of August is one of the most revered holidays - Ilyin's Day

Church holidays in August

Day of the Prophet Elijah - August 2

THE HOLY PROPHET ELIJA (Elijah) - one of the greatest prophets and the first virgin of the Old Testament - was born in Thesbia of Gilead 900 years before the birth of Christ. The name Elijah (the fortress of the Lord) given to the baby determined his whole life. From an early age, he dedicated himself to the One God, settled in the desert and spent his life in strict fasting, contemplation and prayer. When the people of Israel fell away from the faith of their fathers, left the One God and worshiped pagan idols, the prophet became an ardent zealot of the true faith and piety. Seeing the death of his people, Elijah began to denounce King Ahab of wickedness, and when the king did not listen to him, he announced that as punishment for three years there would be no rain or dew on the earth and the drought would stop only through his prayer. And indeed, the sky was closed, drought and famine came over the whole earth. Keeping Elijah, the Lord sent him in time of distress to a secret place by the stream; predatory ravens brought him food.

When the stream dried up, the Lord sent him to Sarepta of Sidon to a poor widow who, along with her children, was expecting starvation. At the request of the prophet, she prepared food for him from the last handful of flour and the rest of the oil. Then, through the prayer of Elijah, flour and oil have not been exhausted in the widow's house since then throughout the famine. By the power of prayer, the prophet also resurrected the deceased son of the widow. After three years, the prophet appeared to King Ahab and offered to gather on Mount Carmel all the people and the priests of the idol of Baal and build two altars: one from the priests of Baal, the other to serve the True God. “On which of them fire from heaven falls, that will be the indication whose God is true,” said Elijah, “and all will have to worship Him, and those who do not recognize Him will be put to death.” In vain did the prophets of Baal cry out to the idol from morning to evening—the sky was silent. By evening, having built and prepared his altar, Elijah turned to God with a fervent prayer and petition that the Lord would send down fire from heaven to admonish the erring and hardened people and turn their hearts to Himself. Fire came down from heaven and burned the altar. The people fell to the ground, crying out: “Truly, the Lord is One God and there is no other God besides Him!”. Through the prayer of the prophet, the heavens opened and a heavy rain fell, watering the thirsty earth.

Ilya is finishing the summer.
Peter and Paul reduced the day by an hour, and Elijah the prophet dragged away two.
Petrok will come and pinch off a piece of paper; Ilya will come and pinch off two.
In that Ilya, in that and Exaltation.
From Ilyin's day, the night is long: the worker gets enough sleep, and the horses are full.
After Ilyin’s day, you won’t see a horse in the Siwa field - that’s how dark the nights are.
With Ilya, the worker has two things to do: the night is long and the water is cold.
On Ilya before lunch, summer, after lunch, autumn.
On Ilyin's day, the stone will vegetate (matinees).
Before Ilyin, the day dries under the bush, and after Ilya, it does not dry on the bush either.
In the popular imagination, Ilya is a formidable, stern, punishing saint, but at the same time generous, endowing: a powerful manager of the most terrible and beneficent forces of nature. In his submission rains, thunder, lightning, he sends fertility to the earth. On Ilyin's day, all the evil spirits, escaping from the fiery arrows of the prophet, turn into various animals - hares, foxes, cats, dogs, wolves, etc. In connection with this belief, a custom was established on the day of Elijah not to let dogs and cats into the house, so as not to bring thunder and lightning to the hut.
People say about a thunderstorm: Ilya rides six stallions across the sky. Thunder comes from the knock on the heavenly bridge chariot of Elijah the prophet, who chases an unclean spirit or a serpent. Lightning is the arrows with which Ilya strikes the evil force.

We present the holidays on August 2 in Russia and Ukraine, church, Orthodox, festive events and memorable dates on the second day of August in the last month of summer. On this page you will find out what holidays will be on August 2, what they are connected with, what events, as well as folk signs, proverbs and sayings about this summer day.

Also, at the end of the page you can learn (briefly) about other holidays and celebrations of the month of August, customs, traditions, folk signs, and more. But first, find out what a holiday is, its definition.

A holiday is a certain period of time (usually one day) allocated in the calendar for the coming year in honor of some significant event, something or someone, which has a sacred (mythical, non-domestic) meaning and is directly related to cultural or religious tradition in some country/region.

The word holiday is also used in other meanings that are close in meaning, such as:

A holiday is the opposite of weekdays - is an official day of rest, established in connection with some calendar event;

A holiday is a fun pastime of free time, entertainment events (mass), a day of some personal or social joyful event;

The general state of spiritual uplift (high spirits), (sometimes in phrases: "holiday of life" and so on).

Holidays August 2 - dates and events

Ilyin's day

Memorial Day of Saint Orthodox John of Kronstadt

Day of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV)

soft pillow day

Name day - at Daniel, John, Ignatius

Holidays August 2 - Airborne Forces Day

Airborne Forces Day is known to almost every person living in Russia or on the territory of the former USSR. The airborne troops are often called "blue berets", "winged infantry", they are considered courageous and reliable.

The principle "No one but us" even became a kind of hallmark of the Airborne Forces. It is known that it is from the date of August 2, 1930 that the history of the Airborne Forces begins. It was then that the exercises of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District were held, and a paratrooper unit of 12 people was parachuted out near Voronezh.

This experiment made it possible to understand the prospects for the development of parachute units that would be able to capture the enemy in airspace conditions. From that moment on, Airborne Forces Day began to be celebrated.

It must be said that the airborne troops entered the history of the Armed Forces, thanks to their courage, valor, selfless devotion to the Motherland. Today, paratroopers inspire admiration and respect from both veterans and those who are just preparing to start military service.

It is the "blue berets" who take part in both peacekeeping and anti-terrorist actions, and always stand guard over the security of the population.

Holidays August 2 - Church (Orthodox) Ilya

Holidays August 2- Ilyin's day. Day of the Prophet Elijah. Ilya the Thunderer.

The day of the holy prophet Elijah (IX century BC) - one of the greatest prophets - a fiery zealot of true faith and piety, possessed the gift of prophecy. For his fiery zeal for the glory of God, he was taken to heaven alive in a fiery chariot.

Ilya the Prophet is as popular among the people as Nikolai Ugodnik. One of the most revered church holidays. This is the last summer holiday. Considered "angry", even dangerous.

The formidable white-bearded elder Ilya is the lord of rains, thunder and lightning, riding around in a rumbling chariot and punishing the unrighteous. He sends fertility to the earth. Elijah the Prophet helps the harvest: "he bestows bread."

On Ilyin's Day, kolobas and donuts are baked from the new harvest.

In the popular imagination, Ilya is a formidable, stern, punishing saint, but at the same time generous, endowing: a powerful manager of the most terrible and beneficent forces of nature. In his submission rains, thunder, lightning, he sends fertility to the earth.

On Ilyin's day, all the evil spirits, escaping from the fiery arrows of the prophet, turn into various animals - hares, foxes, cats, dogs, wolves, etc. In connection with this belief, a custom was established on the day of Elijah not to let dogs and cats into the house, so as not to bring thunder and lightning to the hut.

It is believed among the people that from Ilyin's day there is a turn to autumn, although the hot summer can stand for a long time.

There is a legend associated with the history of the holiday. Thus, people engaged in idolatry decided to build an altar for Baal and began to pray to him. And to make sure that their god exists, they began to ask him to send fire from heaven. But there was no answer.

And then the prophet Elijah made his altar, laid firewood, watered it with water and began to pray. Suddenly, fire fell from heaven and engulfed the altar. And then people believed in the real God.

It is known that for his faith and love for God, Elijah was taken to heaven alive, and the prophet Elisha became a witness of this phenomenon. In the Transfiguration of the Lord, together with Moses, Ilya appeared before Jesus Christ, talking with him on Mount Tabor.

According to the existing tradition, the prophet Elijah will be the forerunner of the Terrible Second Coming of Christ to earth and will accept bodily death during his sermon.

Today, the prophet Elijah is prayed for rain during the drought. As for the holiday, it was believed that after August 2 you can not swim in the river. If someone violates this prohibition, he will die. In any case, that's what the people in Russia said.

Holidays of August - folk omens, sayings, superstitions...

Makrinin day. Macrides. Watch autumn in Macrids. Macrida is wet - and autumn is wet, dry - and autumn too. Summer work ends, autumn work begins. "Macrida equips autumn, and Anna (August 7) ​​- winter."

Makrida Day is considered important for the coming year as well. "If it rains on Macrina, rye will be born next year."

Elijah the Prophet. Ilyin's day. On Ilya before lunch, summer, after lunch, autumn. They note: if it is dry on Ilyin’s day, then it will be dry for six weeks, if it rains on that day, it will go for six weeks.

Stop swimming in the river. From Ilyin's day there is a turn to autumn, although summer with its heat will still stand for a long time. Haymaking ends, harvest begins.

Day of Onesimus. Day of the Seed-Flyer. It was the day when they gradually began to say goodbye to summer. On August 3, the peasants sowed winter crops and picked apples in their orchards. There were also signs characteristic of this day!

Thunderstorm on Seeds - autumn will be long Magpies scream loudly. August 3 - there will be very warm weather in winter. Large heaps on anthills - expect a cold winter.

Strong dew on August 3 - there will be a poor flax harvest.
If a person was born on August 3, then his talisman is a sunflower.
They say that such people, according to signs, always strive to walk in the sun in exactly the same way as the specified flower.

Mary Magdalene. "If there is strong dew on Marya, flax will be gray and braids." "They take out flower bulbs on Mary." This day has another name - Maria Yagodnitsa: black and red currants, blueberries are harvested in the forests.

Day of Trofim-Insomnia. They said: "To a good owner, the day is small." It was not customary to sleep late that day. Moreover, by August 5, the nights were already getting longer - it was important to have time to complete all the work before dusk.

It was on August 5 that the suffering usually began - the peasants had more than enough work. In addition, by August 5, berries ripened in the forest, and they went to pick them.

If a person was born on August 5, then poplar patronizes him. They said that in difficult times you need to go to your talisman tree and hug it. This will help you calm down and find the right solution to a specific problem. You can’t sleep for a long time today - a sign that you won’t have time to finish all the work.

Boris and Gleb Summer. "Boris and Gleb - the bread is ripe."

What will the weather be like on August 6, if the day falls on the Full Moon - this, according to signs, it will be the whole second half of August.

Seagulls often sit on the water - wait for the rain.

You can’t go to the field on August 6 - signs say that there will be a fire. It was said that there were a lot of lightning on this day, and they could set fire to the haystacks.

Anna Kholodnitsa, winter guide. If the matinee is cold and the winter is cold. What is the weather before noon, such is winter until December, what is the weather in the afternoon, such is winter after December.

Light and warm on August 7 is a sign that winter will be without a lot of snowfall, and vice versa.

Yermolai Day. On August 8, the peasants began the early picking of apples, but they still cannot be eaten, since it was customary to wait for the Apple Savior.

In addition, early potatoes ripened by August 8, from which pancakes, cutlets, vinaigrette, okroshka were prepared - such dishes adorned the peasant table on a hot day. On August 8, potatoes were served with beef and even herring with breadcrumbs. On August 8, flies bite and become annoying - you need to wait for rain.

Panteleimon the Healer. Panteleimon Zazhnivny, pre-autumn collection of medicinal herbs. Nikola Kochansky - forks curl into a head of cabbage.

Memorial Day of Prochorus, Nikanor, Timon and Parmen deacons. Day of the Apostle Prochorus. Prokhory and Parmen - do not start a change. Dig up tulip bulbs. Potato tops begin to wither.

Kalinnik. Peasants in the northern provinces say: "Bring, Lord, Kalinnik with a haze (fog), and not with frost." Gloomy foggy times are unfavorable for bees. The beekeepers notice: "There is no way for a bee to go in the hassle."

Day of Strength and Siluyan. The best time for sowing winter crops - rye, sown on Silu and Siluyan, will be born strongly. "Holy Strength will add strength to the peasant." "The powerless hero lives on the Force (from hearty food, new bread)."

Evdokim. Evdokim's conspiracy before the Dormition Fast, about which the people say: "The Dormition Fast is not hungry." At this time, there is a lot of everything: new bread, vegetables, fruits, berries.

First Savior. The first farewell of summer. Honey Spas - break (cut) honeycombs. Roses are blooming, good dews are falling. The flight of swallows and swifts to the warm regions begins.

On the first Savior, the beggar will try a doctor. "" Swallows fly off at three Spas (August 14, 19 and 29)".

Stepan Senoval. By this time in the meadows there was an aftermath - "second hay". They start mowing: "And an increase in hay." "Otava - autumn hay, summer hay will save." "What is Stepan Hayloft, such is September." According to the days of August 15-19, the weather for September-January was determined.

Isaac and Anton Vikhrovey. What is Whirlwind, such is October. If the wind is with whirlwinds, expect a snowy winter. It will swirl from all sides - there will be a furious winter with thick snow on the houses. "What is Isaac, such is Nicholas the Winter (December 19)".

Evdokia. Avdotya Malinovka. Avdotya Cucumber. The forest raspberry ripens. The last pick of cucumbers. Avdotya Senognoyka - rains destroy hay. "Seven youths bring seven rains."

Dorotheus Day. The people noticed that at this time fescue, sleep-grass, which was also called backache, begins to bloom. Good weather on Dorotheus' day - there will be a good grain harvest. The wind blows on this day of August from the east - the summer will be windy and rainy.

Transformation. Second Savior. Great peasant holiday. Apple Spas - mass ripening of apples. Osenins - a meeting of autumn. A dry day portends a dry autumn, a wet one portends a wet one, and a clear one portends a harsh winter. "What is the day on the second Spas, such is the Protection (October 14)".

Day of Marina-Pimena. After Maria-Pimena, they no longer go to the forest for raspberries. On August 20, people celebrated the onset of autumn and the gradual end of summer. On August 20, there were always pies with raspberry filling on the table - this marked the end of summer.

Storks are already preparing to fly away for the winter - autumn, according to signs, will be cold. Morning fog after sunrise on August 20 dissipates fairly quickly.

Myron Vetrogon. There are strong winds on this day. "Winds-carriers drove the dust across the wide world, sobbed through the red summer." "What is Myron Vetrogon, such is January."

Matthew's Day (Matthia). They said that on Matvey the water in rivers and lakes cools down - autumn is already beginning to be felt in the air. You need to look at the water at noon on August 22. If it is quiet, then autumn will also be calm, and in winter there will be practically no blizzards.

Lawrence Day. The waters freeze. At noon they look at the water in rivers and lakes: if it is quiet, then autumn will be quiet, and winter - without blizzards and evil snowstorms. If there is a strong heat or heavy rains, then it will be so long - all autumn.

Day of Euplas. Evpaty Kolovrat. They noticed that on this day the leaves gradually begin to crumble from the trees. Among the people, the day of Eupla, August 24, was considered one of the most terrible. The people said that on this day a horse gallops through the swamps, which is trying to find its rider, who died and fell out of the saddle.

Memorial Day of the Martyrs Photius, Anikita and others. It was the day of cleaning on the povets - this is a room under a canopy in a peasant yard for storing household equipment.

On this day, they said: “Fotya Povetenny does not give rest to the owner - he calls to tell”, - and there all the master's treasure is hidden. It was necessary to figure it out there, so that there was somewhere to put away the summer harness, the plow, the harrow, it was impossible to allow the “devil to break his leg on the wind”.

Memorial Day of St. Tikhon. On this day, they cleaned up the sheds and cellars - everything should be ready for the storage of the new crop. It was believed that St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, the patron saint of this day, was an assistant in getting rid of "all despondency."

On this day, they walked around the house with the icon of the Mother of God "Softener of Evil Hearts", also called "Passionate".

Micah. The average time of the beginning of leaf fall. If the cranes fly, then by mid-October it will be frosty, but if not, then winter will come later. Known for its winds, the strength of which is used to judge the upcoming weather.

"Mikheev's day with the Indian summer storm-wind echoes." "Micah with a storm - to a rainy September." "The quiet winds blow on Micah - to the bucket autumn."

Dormition, an important holiday of the end of summer - the beginning of autumn. The peasants dedicated this holiday to the end of the harvest and the meeting of autumn.

The day of seeing off the summer and the end of the harvest - dozhinki. End of Dormition Fast. "See the Assumption, meet autumn."

Third Savior. Backs. Bread day - the first loaf of new bread was baked. After the third Savior, the last swallows fly away. "The third Spas is good - there will be kvass in the winter."

Memorial Day of Miron. At this time, leaf fall begins, and birds fly away to warmer climes. Leaves fall on August 30 from birch, elm, bird cherry, linden. The last crane flew away on August 30, which means that it will be quite cold on the Feast of the Intercession.

Day of Frol and Lavr, patrons of horses. The beginning of autumn matinees, frosts also occur. If you don’t drop out before Frol, frols will be born (flowers). We looked at the roots of wormwood: if the roots are thick, the year will be fruitful.

"On Frol and Lavra horse festival." "I begged Frol and Lavr - expect good for the horses." Last date for winter sowing. Evening "sit-ins" (women's work in huts by fire) begin.

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Elijah the prophet belongs to the saints beloved and revered by the people. The prophet Elijah in the Slavic folk tradition is the lord of thunder and lightning, heavenly fire, rain, the patron of harvest and fertility. The Christian Ilya the prophet came to replace the pagan Perun the Thunderer.

August, according to the church calendar, is a holiday - the day of memory of the prophet of God Elijah - one of the most beloved and revered saints among our people and among many Slavs. As always, church and folk traditions are closely intertwined on Ilyin's day. Find out what signs exist on Elijah the prophet, what can and cannot be done on a holiday.

What church holiday is August 2 today: who is the prophet Elijah

Among the Russian people, Elijah enjoys special respect and honor, in Slavic culture he is considered the lord of thunder, heavenly fire, rain, harvest and fertility. So, in order to preserve the harvest and increase the fertility of livestock in Russia, they arranged a joint meal with a sacrifice. A ram or a bull acted as a victim. The peasants drove their cattle to the church, and the priest held a prayer service and sprinkled it with sacred water. After that, an animal bought with common money was sacrificed, and a feast was arranged, which usually lasted until morning.

As the Bible tells us, Elijah was an Old Testament prophet who worshiped the God Yahweh. The inhabitants of Israel abandoned their Lord and turned to the pagan cult of Baal, angry with their people, through Elijah God sends drought and famine to Israel. Later, worshipers of Yahweh and Baal met on Mount Carmel, where each side had to call on their God to confirm the truth, by casting fire from heaven. However, no sign followed from Baal, but fire was cast down on the altar of God Yahweh, and the Israelites fell with cries: "Yahweh is God." Immediately it began to rain, resurrecting the dried earth. And so the holiday called Ilyin's Day appeared.

As the Old Testament tells us, when God wanted to take Elijah to himself, a fiery chariot appeared in the sky, before which the waters of the Jordan River parted. Elijah placed himself in the chariot, and she disappeared from sight, watching this situation, Elisha, the disciple of Elijah.

What church holiday is August 2 today: traditions and signs of this day

Elijah, the lord of thunder and lightning, was depicted in folk writings galloping through the heavens on a fiery chariot drawn by four white horses. The sound of hooves is thunder. And Elijah himself is the messenger of the law of God, a formidable, but just and generous patron of agriculture and cattle breeding, who punishes the lazy and unrighteous with a lightning strike, and hails the fields and crops, and protects and takes the hardworking and righteous under his protection, watering crops with blessed rain.

Elijah was taken alive to heaven, ascended in a fiery chariot, so that before the second coming of Christ he would return to earth and go around the world three times, warning people about the Last Judgment.

Signs and traditions on Elijah the prophet

Believers on Elijah go to church and ask in prayers for well-being in the family, peace, health of loved ones, carry seeds for consecration for the next harvest.

Previously, it was customary to organize fairs on Elijah, as well as bratchina - communal dinners, at which they brought food and drinks from each house, treated themselves, treated travelers, wanderers, the poor, the needy. Such meals ended with festivities, games, round dances, songs.

People believed that on the day of Elijah, all evil spirits are saved from the fiery punishment of the saint and turn into various animals and fish, including pets. Therefore, people on Elijah did not let domestic dogs and cats out of the house, so that an evil spirit would not inhabit them.

The day of the prophet Elijah is one of the holidays revered by the people, however, no special significant rituals were performed on this day, despite the fact that many beliefs, mythological legends, calendar and household signs and prohibitions are associated with Elijah.

They prepared for the holiday in a few days - they protected their homes from evil spirits, evil spirits, baked special ritual cookies and bread - koloboks, stopped any work in the field and around the house.

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On August 2, 3 Orthodox church holidays are celebrated. The list of events informs about church holidays, fasts, days of honoring the memory of saints. The list will help you find out the date of a significant religious event for Orthodox Christians.

Church Orthodox holidays August 2

Prophet Elijah

Holy Prophet Elijah

The Old Testament prophet Elijah (for the Jews - Elijah, for Muslims - Ilyas), a zealous fighter for the purity of faith and a denouncer of idolatry and wickedness, who lived, according to the biblical narrative (The Third and Fourth Books of Kings), 900 years before Jesus Christ, turned out to be surprisingly close precisely Christians.

The first anchorite virgin in the Old Testament, he consecrated himself to God before God called him to the prophetic ministry. And the Lord appeared to him not in thunder, storm or fire, but in “a quiet breath of the wind.” Sent by God to King Ahab to warn that if he and his people do not stop worshiping Baal and Astrat, the kingdom of Israel will suffer famine, he himself then starved along with everyone, content with the little that the raven brought him to the wilderness. He was pursued by the wrath of the pagan queen Jezebel, he was tired of the burden of an outcast prophet placed on him, despaired, asked for death. And then in the eyes of all the people, by the power of prayer, he brought down fire from heaven on the altar of the true God.

Like the true prophet, Elijah left behind a disciple, Elisha, so that the cause he served would not die with him. And when the teacher, already being carried up into the sky by a fiery chariot, threw his cloak (in Slavic “mantle”) to the student, and he hit the water with it, and the water parted, Elisha realized that he had inherited not only the clothes, but also the spirit of the prophet. Almost a thousand years will pass, and the apostles will experience a similar feeling on the day of Pentecost and will pass on this spirit to all the people of God, so that they pass it on from generation to generation.

Ilyin's day is celebrated by all Orthodox peoples, as well as Christians, Jews and Muslims living in the vicinity of Mount Carmel, on which, according to the biblical story, he hid, prayed and defeated the priests of Baal. The Catholics also venerate the prophet Elijah, but they, unlike the Orthodox, do not have a separate celebration for him.

The places of the earthly life of the prophet have long attracted pilgrims. In the Greek monastery of St. George Khozevita, founded around 480 in the vicinity of Jericho in the gorge of Wadi Kelt, in a large cave where, according to legend, the prophet Elijah hid and prayed in the first year of a three-year drought, a temple was built in the name of the prophet Elijah. On Mount Carmel, the mother of St. Constantine the Great, Equal-to-the-Apostles Empress Elena, founded the Eliinsky Monastery. Now it is the Stella Maris Catholic monastery, and not far from it is an Orthodox Russian church in the name of Elijah the Prophet, consecrated in 1913. One of the caves where, according to legend, he escaped from his pursuers, is located on the territory of the Greek monastery of Mar Elias, built in the VI century. There is also a cave temple of the prophet Elijah on Mount Horeb, on the slope leading to Jethro's valley.

In Kyiv, the first Ilyinsky temple was built under Prince Igor, long before the baptism of Russia. And in Moscow, the name of Ilyinka Street was given by the oldest church in the name of the prophet Elijah - the cathedral of the Ilyinsky monastery, as archaeologists believe, of the XIV century.

Ilyin's day in Russia has always been celebrated with a procession and a prayer service. In Moscow, it was performed at the Execution Ground on Red Square, and then the clergy, led by the patriarch, and the people went to Ilyinka, to the oldest Ilyinsky church in the city, where they served the liturgy.
The veneration of the prophet Elijah as the protector of the Russian land in the Time of Troubles especially intensified: all historians mention the alarm that sounded from the bell tower of this temple on May 17, 1606 and initiated an uprising against False Dmitry I. And the people, sensitive to such signs, immediately attributed the expulsion of foreigners from Moscow to the intercession of the prophet Elijah.

The tradition of Ilyinsky religious processions lasted in Moscow until the revolution itself and was revived in 2003. Now the ancient Ilyinsky temple of the capital is the central temple of the Airborne Troops of the Russian Federation, who consider Ilya the prophet their heavenly patron and celebrate their professional holiday on the day of his memory.

And in the villages, where until the 20th century there were many Ilyinsky churches and chapels, on Ilyin's day they went to the fields in a procession to serve a prayer service there, and they necessarily arranged a brotherhood - a festive feast in clubbing. Moreover, unlike other festive brothers, the food was prepared by men.

What church holiday is today August 2, 2018: Reverend Abraham of Galich, Chukhloma, hegumen

Honoring the memory of Saint Abraham (XIV century), enlightener of the Galich country. Founder of 4 monasteries dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.

The Monk Abraham of Galich, Chukhloma, lived and labored in the fourteenth century in the monastery of St. Sergius of Radonezh. After many years of probation, he was awarded the holy order. Striving for perfect silence, he asked for the blessing of St. Sergius and retired in 1350 to the Galich country, inhabited by Chud tribes. Settling in a deserted place, the Monk Abraham, by revelation, moved to the mountain, where he found the icon of the Mother of God shining with inexpressible light. The Galich prince Dimitri became aware of the appearance of the holy icon, and he asked the monk to bring it to the city.

The Monk Abraham came with the icon to Galich, where he was met by the prince and a host of clergy. Numerous healings took place from the icon of the Mother of God. Prince Dimitri gave the Reverend funds for the construction of a temple and a monastery near Lake Chukhloma, at the site of the appearance of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. The temple was built and consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The newly built monastery of St. Abraham became a source of spiritual enlightenment for the local Chud population.

When the monastery was fortified, he appointed his disciple Porfiry as rector instead of himself, and he himself retired 30 miles in search of a secluded place, but his disciples found him there too. Thus, another monastery arose with a temple in honor of the Position of the Robe of the Mother of God, called "the great wilderness of Abraham." The Monk Abraham twice withdrew to remote places, after the silent ones again gathered to him. Thus, two more monasteries were founded - one in honor of the Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos, the rector of which the Monk Abraham appointed hegumen Paphnutius, and the other in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos.

In the Intercession Monastery, the Monk Abraham ended his earthly life. He reposed in 1375, having transferred the rectorship to his disciple Innokenty a year before his blessed death. The Monk Abraham appeared as an educator of the Galich country, founding in it four monasteries dedicated to the Mother of God, who revealed Her icon to him at the beginning of his deeds of prayer.

Feast of the Orthodox calendar 08/2/2018: Uncovering the relics of the Monk Martyr Athanasius of Brest, hegumen

The Monk Martyr Athanasius was born around 1595-1600 into a poor Orthodox family, probably an impoverished gentry (judging by the fact that the future hegumen served as a teacher at the court of a magnate). Perhaps he was from the family of an urban artisan - as he himself points out in his memoirs, calling himself "a non-nendzy Man, a simple, garbarchik, a miserable Kaluger." As is often the case, we have no information either about the place of birth or about the secular name of the saint; it is also unknown what the name "Filippovich" is - a surname or patronymic.

Probably, Athanasius received his initial knowledge in one of the fraternal schools, where, taught the Greek and Church Slavonic languages, the word of God and patristic creations, highly educated people were trained who could resist Uniate violence and Catholic proselytism. But the education received at the fraternal school did not fully satisfy the inquisitive young man, and he was trained at the Vilna Jesuit College, where young people of all Christian denominations were accepted.

The young scientist began his service as a home tutor in the homes of the Orthodox and Catholic gentry, but in 1620 his life fell into a different direction: Filippovich, who positively proved himself with rich knowledge, good manners and undeniable pedagogical talent, was invited by Hetman Lev Sapega, Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . The hetman entrusted him with the upbringing of a certain "Dmitrovich" introduced to Athanasius by the Russian Tsarevich John - allegedly the nephew of Theodore Ioannovich, who died in 1598, the grandson of John IV the Terrible from his younger son Dimitri, under whose name several impostors acted in 1604-1612. One of these “applicants” was the father of the disciple Athanasius, whom the Poles were preparing for the Russian throne: Dimitry-Mikhail Luba, who was killed in Moscow during a rebellion against the militia of False Dmitry I. Mikhail Luba’s wife Maria died in prison, and a certain Wojciech took his young son Belinsky, who brought the child to Poland and passed off as the son of Dimitry and Marina Mnishek, who was actually hanged. All this was announced at the Diet before the king, who entrusted the education of Ivan Dimitrievich to Lev Sapega. He appointed the maintenance of the “prince” at six thousand zlotys a year from the income of Brest and the Brest district.

For seven years Athanasius served as the “inspector” of the false prince, gradually coming to the conclusion that this “certain prince of Moscow”, “certain Luba”, “who does not know himself what he is”, is another impostor. This confidence intensified over time, especially when Luba's allowance was reduced to hundreds of zlotys a year, and Hetman Sapieha himself somehow escaped: "Who knows who he is!"

Having become an unwitting accomplice in political intrigue against the Moscow sovereign, the famous defender of Orthodoxy Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, the son of the Russian Patriarch Filaret, Filippovich left the court of the chancellor in 1627 and retired to the cell of the Vilna Holy Spirit Monastery, where he soon received tonsure from the vicar Joseph Bobrikovich. Soon, with his blessing, Athanasius passed his obedience at the Kuteinsky Monastery near Orsha, recently founded in 1623 by Bogdan Stetkevich and his wife Elena Solomeretskaya (V. Zverinsky. Materials for historical and topographical research. St. Petersburg. 1892 P. 172), and then - in the Mezhyhirya monastery near Kyiv, at the hegumen of the Commentary (mentioned under 1627) and the brother of the Kyiv Metropolitan Job Boretsky - Samuel. However, already in 1632 the Mezhyhirya abbot released Athanasius to Vilna, where he was ordained a hieromonk.

The following year, Athanasius again left the monastery of the Holy Spirit and went as a viceroy of hegumen Leonty Shitik to the Duboinsky monastery near Pinsk, also subordinate to the Vilna monastic monastery, where he spent three years caring for the brethren, fasting and praying.

In 1636, Albrecht Radziwill, an ardent supporter of Catholic proselytism, violating the “Articles of Calm” published by King Vladislav IV, forcibly expelled Orthodox inhabitants from the Duboina Monastery in order to transfer the monastery to the Jesuits, who shortly before that, through the efforts of the same Albrecht, settled in Pinsk. Athanasius, unable to resist the magnate and keep the monastery, made a complaint with a story about the lawlessness committed, but this written protest, signed by many Orthodox, did not bring positive results.

Expelled from the holy monastery, Afanasy Filippovich came to the Kupyatitsky monastery to the hegumen Illarion Denisovich. This monastery was founded in 1628 by the widow of the Brest castellan Gregory Voina Apollonia and her son Vasily Koptem with a miraculous icon of the Mother of God, written inside the cross, once burned by the Tatars, and then miraculously appeared in the middle of the flame. Here, under the holy cover of the “small in size, but great in miracles” icon, blessed Athanasius lived in cordial friendship with monk Makariy Tokarevsky.

In 1637, this Macarius brought a station wagon from Metropolitan Peter Mohyla, allowing the collection of "yalmuzhna" - alms for the restoration of the Kupyatitsky monastery church. And so, on the advice of the brethren of the monastery and the blessing of the abbot, in November 1637 Afanasy Filippovich went to collect donations. To do this, he decided on rather bold actions: he went to Moscow in order to collect donations and seek the protection of Orthodoxy from the Moscow Tsar.

Shortly before the road, he had a vision, which the abbot of the monastery was also honored with: King Sigismund, papal nuncio and hetman Sapieha were burning in a flaming furnace. Athanasius considered this vision a good omen of the imminent triumph of Orthodoxy. Immediately before leaving for Muscovy, Athanasius, praying in the church vestibule, saw through the window the icon of the Mother of God and heard some noise and a voice from the icon “I am going with you too! ”, and then noticed Deacon Nehemiah, who had died a few years before, who said: “I also go with my Lady!” Thus, having secured the promise of the miraculous patronage of the Most Holy Theotokos, saying goodbye to the brethren and receiving the blessing of the hegumen, Athanasius set off on his journey.

Arriving in Slutsk, he met with unexpected difficulties: Archimandrite Samuil Shitik took away the metropolitan universal from him for the reason that Filippovich did not have the right to collect fees in a territory that did not belong to the Lutsk diocese. When the conflict was resolved at the end of January 1638, Athanasius and his companion Volkovitsky went to Kuteino to ask hegumen Ioil Trutsevich, who was connected with the most famous representatives of the Russian clergy, to help in crossing the border to Muscovy (supervision was strengthened over the border due to the fact that Cossacks, fearing reprisals after a recent riot, fled from the Commonwealth to Russia).

Having taken letters of recommendation from Abbot Joel, "cards, information about himself," Filippovich went to Kopys, Mogilev, Shklov and again returned to the Kuteinsky Monastery, where the governor Joseph Surta recommended making his way to the Moscow kingdom through Trubchevsk. Having lost their way and almost drowned in the Dnieper, robbed and beaten in one of the inns, the travelers finally reached Trubchevsk. But here, too, failure awaited them; Prince Trubetskoy categorically refused to give them a pass, suspecting them to be scouts.

Forced to return, Athanasius visited the Chovsky Monastery on the way, where one of the elders advised him to make an attempt to cross the border in the region of Novgorod-Seversky with the assistance of the local voivode Peter Pesechinsky. The pilgrim gratefully accepted the good advice and crossed the border near the village of Shepelevo.

However, Athanasius's difficulties did not end there: on the way to Moscow, he had a quarrel with the novice Onesimus, who had lost hope of achieving his goal.

Finally, the walkers came to the gates of the capital. In Moscow, they stopped in Zamoskvorechye, on Ordynka, where in March 1638 Athanasius wrote a note to the tsar, outlining his mission and travel history in the form of a diary. In this note, Athanasius showed the plight of the Orthodox Church in the Commonwealth, expanding the picture of violence and abuse of Orthodoxy, begged the Russian sovereign to intercede for the Russian faith. He also advised the tsar to make an image of the Kupyatitskaya Mother of God on military banners, with the help of which it was possible to make such a difficult and unsafe journey. This note, together with the image of the miraculous image, was handed over to the king. As a result, Athanasius was received in the Embassy hut, where, apparently, he spoke about the upcoming impostor. The very next year, a commission headed by the boyar Ivan Plakidin was sent to Poland to identify impostors; the report of the head of the commission confirmed the information of Athanasius (Monuments of Russian antiquity. St. Petersburg. 1885. Vol. 8).

On the flower-bearing Palm Sunday, Athanasius left Moscow with generous donations for the Kupyatitsky church, arrived in Vilna on June 16, and in July reached the limits of his native monastery.

In 1640, the brethren of the Brest Simeonov Monastery, having lost their hegumen, sent a petition to Kupyatitsy to bless Afanasy Filippovich or Makariy Tokarevsky as hegumen. The choice fell on Athanasius, who went to Brest. Here he found himself in the very center of the struggle of Orthodoxy with the union, for Brest was the city in which "Greek Catholicism" was born and spread like nowhere else. Even earlier, all 10 Orthodox churches in the city were turned into Uniate ones, and only in 1632 did the Orthodox brotherhood manage to return the temple in the name of Simeon the Stylite with the monastery attached to it, and in 1633 - the church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin.

The Uniates, however, did not stop their encroachments, and soon Abbot Athanasius had to look for "foundations" on Orthodox churches: six documents of the 15th century were found and entered in the city books of Magdeburg, relating to the Brest Nikolsky brotherhood, which united the monasteries of the Nativity of the Virgin and Simeon the Stylite . The documents found by the abbot gave grounds for the legal registration of the rights of the Nativity of the Mother of God brotherhood, and the Brest ascetic went to Warsaw in September 1641 to the Sejm, where he received royal privileges on October 13, confirming the rights of the brothers and allowing them to purchase a place in Brest to build a brotherly house.

But this privilege had to be ratified by the chancellor Albrecht Radziwill and the sub-chancellor Trizna, who refused, even for 30 thalers that the abbot could offer them, to certify the privileges with their seals, referring to the fact that “under an oath it is forbidden to them from the holy father of papezh, so that more the Greek faith did not multiply here.” Nor could the Orthodox bishops gathered at the Seimas help the hegumen of Brest, fearing that more could be lost in the struggle for less, causing a wave of new persecution from the authorities. Hegumen Athanasius, however, strengthened in the rightness of his cause by the blessing of the miraculous icon, again made an attempt to assure this privilege, and again unsuccessfully. Then he appeared at the Sejm and addressed directly to the king with an official complaint - "suplika" - demanding "that the true Greek faith be thoroughly calmed, and the accursed union destroyed and turned into nothing", threatening the monarch with God's punishment if he did not curb the dictates Church.

This denunciation, uttered on March 10, 1643, brought the king and the diet into the strongest annoyance. Abbot Athanasius was arrested and imprisoned together with his colleague Deacon Leonty in the house of the royal gatekeeper Jan Zhelezovsky for several weeks - until the Diet departure. Deprived of the opportunity to explain the reasons for his speech, the hegumen of Brest took upon himself the feat of voluntary foolishness, and on March 25, on the celebration of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, he escaped from custody and, standing on the street in captura and paramanta, beating himself with a staff in the chest, publicly pronounced a curse union.

Soon he was captured and again taken into custody, and after the end of the Diet, he was brought to the church court. The court, to appease the authorities, temporarily deprived him of his priestly and abbot ranks and sent him to Kyiv for the final hearing of the consistory, the Therussiantimes website reports. In anticipation of the final decision of the court, the Monk Athanasius prepared an explanatory note in Latin, for the arrival of a government prosecutor was expected. Far from the irritated Warsaw and the supreme authorities, the court, chaired by the rector of the Kiev-Mohyla Collegium Innokenty Gizel, ruled that Athanasius had already atoned for his “sin” by imprisonment, and therefore he was granted freedom and the priesthood returned. Metropolitan Peter Mohyla confirmed this decision and on June 20 sent the monk to the monastery of Simeon the Stylite with a message in which he was ordered to be more careful and restrained in church affairs.

So the Monk Athanasius returned to Brest, where he lived "for a considerable time in peace." This peace was very relative, for the constant attacks on the monastery by Jesuit students and Uniate priests did not stop, insulting and even beating Orthodox monks.

Expecting to receive support from the Novogorodsk voivode Nikolai Sapieha, who was considered the patron of the Simeonov Monastery, and in the hope that he would help secure a safe-conduct for the Orthodox Beresteyans, the Monk Athanasius went to Krakow, simultaneously collecting donations for his monastery. Unfortunately, the support of the noble governor could not be found, and the monk went to the Moscow ambassador, Prince Lvov, who at that time lived in Krakow and was investigating impostors. Having met with him, Athanasius told about his trip to Moscow, and also told a lot of facts about Jan-Favstin Luba, presenting one of his last messages, certain fragments of which gave reason to initiate a judicial investigation against the impostor.

Summoned from Krakow to Warsaw by a letter from the Warsaw jurist Zychevsky, who reported on May 3, 1644, that through his efforts the charter entrusted by Athanasius to be certified by the chancellor had already been provided with the necessary seals, and demanded the redemption of privileges for six thousand zlotys, the Monk Athanasius immediately set off for the capital. But when, upon verification, it turned out that the privileges were not included in the royal metric and, therefore, had no legal force, the abbot refused to redeem the fictitious document.

Returning to Brest from Warsaw, the Monk Athanasius ordered a copy of the Kupyatitsky icon from the Bernardine monastery and placed it in his cell; inspired by this image, he proceeded to compose a new public complaint, with which he expected to speak at the Diet of 1645. For this, he also prepared several dozen copies of the handwritten "History of a Journey to Moscow" depicting the Kupyatitskaya Icon of the Mother of God.

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Orthodox and Greek Catholics celebrate on August 2 the feast of Elijah (Elijah), the first of the most respected immaculates. In churches on this day, the passages of the cross and the blessing of water take place where there are sanctuaries in honor of the prophet.

Prophet Elijah

Every year, the Orthodox celebrate on August 2 the feast of Elijah, the prophet who lived in Palestine in the 9th century. up to BC From a young age he settled in the wilderness and lived there in fasting and prayer. Elijah was called into prophetic service during the reign of the idolatrous sovereign Ahab, who worshiped Baal (the sun) and forced the Israeli population to act in a similar way. God sent Elijah to Ahab and instructed him to tell him that if the population does not turn to the real Lord, his kingdom will know a crisis. Ahab did not listen to the prophet in any way, and waterlessness and a huge misfortune set in in the state.

During the period of dangerous fasting, the prophet lived in the desert by famine. Then he found shelter for two years with a widow in the town of Sarepta. After that, he returned to the Kingdom of Israel and declared to the sovereign and the whole people that all the misfortunes of the Israelites, without exception, are due to the fact that they forgot the true Lord and began to worship the image of Baal.

Baal

First, they made an altar to Baal, threw firewood, slaughtered a bull, and the priests of Baal began to pray to their own god. In the evening, Ilya made his own altar, laid logs, sprinkled them with water and began to offer a prayer to the Lord God. Suddenly, a flame descended from the sky and burned not only on the logs and the sacrifice, but also on the water and the stones of the altar. The population, noticing this magic, glorified the true Lord and again believed in him.

Elijah the prophet (Feast of August 2) was taken to heaven in a fiery chariot. The eyewitness of this wondrous ascent was the seer Elisha. Then, in the Transfiguration of the Lord, someone appeared together with the prophet Moses and appeared before Jesus Christ.

According to legend, the seer will become the Forerunner of the 2nd Coming of Christ and during the preaching period he will acquire physical death.

Story

Ilya the seer is the most famous of the ordinary people, blessed. And for this reason, it is certain that August 2 (the holiday of Elijah) is provided with traditions, customs and beliefs. In popular beliefs, Ilyusha the seer is represented as a powerful gray-haired old man who drives around the boundless firmament in his own chariot. His punishing hand sends fiery arrows, shaking demons and humans who do not adhere to the decree of the Lord. In whatever place the seer appears, he is everywhere surrounded by flame, nightmare, death and decay. He symbolizes the wrath of the Lord, and according to the whole of Russia, Elijah the prophet was called none other than severe.

Traditions

The traditions of August 2, the feast of Elijah, have pagan origins. During this period, the ancient Slavs respected the Lord of Thunder Perun. And only after the baptism of Russia, under the influence of the Orthodox church, the appearance of a pagan deity was eventually replaced in the public consciousness by Elijah the prophet. He embodied all the functions of the Thunderer without exception.

In absolutely all legends, it was described that Ilya the seer expresses the Lord's fury. His punishing fair hand punished the spirits of the crown, and especially the evil demons. According to the beliefs of people, all evil spirits are protected from his formidable arrows, transforming not only into unbridled animals (hares, foxes) and low worshipers, but also into household ones: dogs, cats and others.

Therefore, a tradition arose not to let dogs and cats and other household pets out into the street, so that the spirits of darkness, who found refuge in them and fleeing from arrows, did not make their way into the housing, and the discharge directed at them did not hit the house.

In Ilya, on August 2, they certainly wash themselves with spring water. It protects against diseases and deterioration of health.

Especially on this day it is necessary to beware of pines with 2 peaks. If there is a thunderstorm, then all doors and windows in the dwelling, without exception, are covered, lamps and candles are lit in front of the icons. After a thunderstorm, rain water is collected. It has healing power and protects from the evil eye.

On the Orthodox holiday of August 2, Elijah the prophet orders not to work in the garden. The Seer is able to strike a worker with lightning, or burn grass. Only one type of work is officially allowed - this is the inspection of the hives and the first reduction of combs in the bee house. According to legend, evil spirits are afraid of bees and do not approach them in any way.

Signs

The fact that the Seer is the ruler of thunder, lightning, whirlwinds and rain clouds served as the basis for the emergence of many portents. You can believe in the holiday of Elijah 2, as a rule, they are true. Attention should be paid to the following premonitions.

• You shouldn’t dip from Ilyin’s day - he wrote in some water.
• Since Ilyin's day, all the liquid has cooled.
• Before Ilya, a man bathes, and from Ilya, he says goodbye to the river.
• Thunder rumbles - in this case, Ilyusha moves across the sky in his own chariot.
• Ilya receives the harvest, and the season ends.
• It is impossible to work in the Ilyin period in the earth, otherwise it will burn with an azure flame.
• Before Ilya, the clouds go according to the wind, and from Ilya they begin to go contrary.
• Before Elijah, the priest will not beg for a downpour, and after Elijah, the woman will bring it with an apron.
• After Ilyin's day, you can't find a horse in the Siva garden - look how impenetrable the nights are.
• From Ilyin's day, the night of duty: the worker gets enough sleep, and the stallions gorge themselves.
• Whoever gets into the Ilyin period in the rain will always be in excellent shape.
• Whoever counts shocks in Ilya will lose everything without exception.

What can be done?

Signs on the holiday of Elijah on August 2 are simple and understandable. You cannot work on this day. But what can be done, despite popular beliefs?

Every religious person will definitely go to the temple on this day. Since it is on the second of August that they hold festive services in honor of them. In addition, cross passages are arranged. After worship, families gather for a solemn dinner. People who specialize in arable farming have every chance during this period to ask Elijah for an excellent harvest.

What can't be done?

What can not be done on the feast of Elijah on August 2, so as not to bring trouble on yourself? During a thunderstorm, it is forbidden to be in the water, near trees, near a pine tree with 2 peaks, run down the street, speak loudly, hum, yell.

Grandmothers taught their descendants in such bad weather to close the door closely, hang the windows, set fire to either a lamp or a candle (baptismal or Thursday) in front of the icon, then cross themselves and everyone without exception, begging Elijah the prophet to free their loved ones from the shaking thunder, from the unstable arrow. With this ceremony, there must certainly be a handkerchief. In order to protect their own housing and yard, steppe, animals from lightning, people fumigated everything without exception with incense in the evening before the holiday, and in the daytime of the next day.

It is believed that during this period it is impossible to carry out practically any work related to land and housing, so as not to anger the holy prophet. There is a legend among the people that activities in the garden have every chance of causing the death of the crop. It is not forbidden on this day only to carry out activities related to bees and caring for them. On a holiday, wax is allowed to be harvested in order to produce candles.

Why can't you jump into the water?

Swimming after August 2, the church holiday of Elijah, is impossible, since the seer, according to legend, has cooled the water by this moment. The proverb is also known among the people: "The seer muddies the water in the rivers."

The second opinion, why you shouldn’t swim after Ilyin’s day, notifies that this harms your well-being. Since from this period the water in the ponds begins to bloom, this will not affect the body in the best way.

It is generally accepted among the people to believe that on August 2 the swimming season ends, the air temperature at night becomes much lower than during the day. Similar differences are reflected in the water.

Another of the factors why society in the old days was afraid to plunge after Ilyin's day is feral animals and evil forces. If you trust the popular superstitions, then on the night of August 2, unclean forces are found near the reservoirs - water, mermaids, demons. As if they are accepted to refuel in rivers and lakes from now on. For this reason, the threat of drowning is very high - a person will not have time to change his mind, as a non-human will take him and drag him along.