Stressed Saturday...
I am still struggling with this abstract. (It's still too long)
Anyway, in other news, Happy name day to my dad (John, named after John the Baptist, click here for a more Orthodox Christian perspective ) and Happy Birthday to Josh.
Anyway, in other news, Happy name day to my dad (John, named after John the Baptist, click here for a more Orthodox Christian perspective ) and Happy Birthday to Josh.
posted by Immortalis at 1:20 μ.μ.
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Isn't the feast of St-John the Baptist on June 24th?
Good luck with your abstract Thanasis!
Actually, in the Orthodox Church we commemorate St. John the Baptist many times in the year:
Like the Roman Catholic Church we celebrate his birth on June 24th (in some places in Greece, they had the custom of lighting fires), and his death on August 29. However, we also commemorate his conception, on September 23 as well as the dates when his head was found (First and Second finding of the head on February 24th and the Third on May 25th. But the main feast of St. John is January 7th (the Synaxis (Gathering) of St. John the Forruner/Baptist)because it is celebrated just one day after Epiphany (the Baptism of the Lord in the river Jordan)
Oh. Thanks Thanos!
i'm surprised that the tradition is the lighting of fires. in towns in the philippines where the patron saint is st. john, the pistahan ni san juan is celebrated with water fights: literally, strangers will throw buckets of water or water balloons at people on the streets on st. john's day. (it kind of surprises me that no one really does that in québec either...at least, not to my knowledge.)
anyway, happy epiphany, thanasis! in the catholic church, epiphany is celebrated as the day in which the three wise men (or kings) come to visit the child Jesus in the manger, symbolising that He came to save not only the israelites, but the whole of humanity. you should get a galette des rois from the au pain doré. it's a really yummy pie with a super flaky crust and it's filled with almond paste. be careful when you eat it, though. there's a hard ceramic figurine baked inside. supposedly, the person who gets the figurine in their slice gets to be the monarch for the day.
I remember seeing a news story last year about Filipinos soaking each other on June 24. I guess they're taking the "bastist" part literally.
Of course, if Quebecers similarly decided to literally interpret the meaning of "baptiser" in French, they'd celebrate their national holiday by giving each other new names.
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