February 1 - what a feast for you in charge?

February 29, occurring every four years, because of its rarity and all known Kasyanov day. But regarding the festivity of the first day of the last month of winter, not all informed. Meanwhile it corresponds to event "for every taste and color." Directed your gaze to the West or to the East, the first of February almost everyone will find a festive occasion.

Extravaganza uncle Sam

Take a Look at the calendar, February 1, a birthday is celebrated by followers of the American democracy.

Uncle Sam the main DJ of the planetary disco "off" at the start of the month "in full"! After all, the first day of this month set a national day of freedom, informally called the "birthday of all American presidents." It is not because in February came to light historically significant personalities, Lincoln (12 February) and Washington (22nd). 1st February (what a holiday for African-Americans!) Abraham Lincoln in 1865, the year he initiated his signature to the 13th amendment, abolishing slavery. It was ratified later, the 18th of December of the same year, after the death of the 15th of April, the President-liberator. Officially, the holiday is referred in February in post-war 1948 year, the head of state Harry S. Truman.

February 1 - which holiday in Russia is celebrated on the Democrats

One thing we are ahead of the Americans: in comparison with the fall of the shameful slavery of the New world serfdom in Russia was abolished four years earlier. The Manifesto of the King-Osvoboditel, incidentally, also occurred in February old style, 19 number (according to the modern Gregorian calendar - March 3), 1861.

But in the twentieth century February 1 (what is a holiday for adherents of democracy!) born in 1931 in the Ural village of Butka, the future first President of Russia Yeltsin. Did he citizens of the country from the shackles of the Soviet system or pushed to the destruction of a great power, history will judge impartially, except that after a hundred or two hundred years.

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Day of enthronement of his Holiness

View the calendar of the Moscow Patriarchate, under the date of February 1 feast of the Church what people celebrate in our country. Traditionally in our Local Church celebrated the day of the enthronement of the ruling Patriarch. Sixteenth Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church was elevated to the highest level of Church hierarchy that is the 1st of February in 2009 year.

Modern society is so uninhibited that even in the tagline "party in a new format" the place to be bluntly puts the dignity of Patriarch. Judge as "formatted" Church life under the leadership of his Holiness - it is the Cathedral of the mind. In the temples of the Moscow Patriarchate - this sincere love, and in obedience to the canons is proclaimed every year on this day of prayer many years the head of the Church.

In the practice of the worship of the judge, February 1 what holiday is considered the main in the evening singing of the canons, the reading of the Epistle and gospel at the Liturgy, is superior. Naturally, in the temples dedicated to the Russian saints and places related to their ascetic life, on a weekday, the primacy of honor given to these lamps of Orthodoxy. So, in Zvenigorod, in the first day of February marks one of the disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the strict ascetic piety of the PDP. Sava.

Fiery Gehenna and winter thunder

For a complete contrast, will tell on February 1 - what a feast the Orthodox world and the Gentiles do in this day. The universal Orthodoxy celebrates the PDP.Macarius, called the Great (also known as Egyptian). The monk was astonishing humility, as the story of his life. Of the special events of his life should note the following: once you meet in the desert dry skull of a pagan priest, the Saint was honored to join the interview with the soul of the deceased. He told him that through the prayers of the monk even the pagans in hell get some relief. The priest himself abides in the great fire, but it is on the mitre of the Bishop of the apostate, mired even deeper in a lake of torturous flame. Opened the PDP.Macarius of this conversation and the fact that in life the demons have over the Nations of great power.

It is Noteworthy that the druids celebrated this day Imbolc (the name, according to some reports upward to the concept of "shower"), and the Eastern Slavs - Granicu. According to legends, 1 Feb is the only day of winter, during which the possibility of thunderstorms. Like it or not, each of us can try to make on their own experience. After all, to meet the first of February when the circumstances are right living on Earth person will manage a few dozen times.