October 14 - Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary
 

Protection of the Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

Protection of the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church celebrated October 14 , new style . This is the main autumn festival , whose history dates back to the year 910 , when one of the churches of Jerusalem during the service whacky Andrew and his disciple Epiphanius seen floating in the air, the Mother of God , which is spread out over his broad white worshipers cover - cover .

In Russia, with the Protection of the day began with a wedding, a girl in this day went to church to pray that the Lord sent them good husbands . People sign suggests that the more snow on the Shroud , the greater the wedding will be this year .

Russophobic some prazdnichek :
In the year 910 , according to legend , the Virgin came out of his church in the modern Blachernae Balat (Istanbul, Turkey), the stretched cover and swept the pagan Rus ships besieging Orthodox Constantinople . Ruses were killed , and not nailed his shield at the gates of Constantinople and the Greeks rejoiced .
Thus, strictly speaking , the festival of the Holy Virgin and established .
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Santa I , born on this day , that is, 14.10.1914 , states

that the Holy Cover has saved him from reprisals in 1937 (grandson of the Siberian merchant 1st Guild, and a relative of one of the commanders of the Red Army )
 and during the Second World War , was killed ( three wounded ) and the family has created a October , 1943, by the way .

 Lived up to 90 years.

Remember his family today ...

So holiday- it is not easy , my friends, debaters ... :)>

And if we remember that on this day 47 years ago , Leonid Brezhnev at the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee was elected general secretary of the Communist Party and became the head of the Soviet Union.
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And here comes the first snow, as expected, to cover.
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