Bread Savior 2012

In the church calendar, the Bread Savior corresponds Feast of the Transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of the Image of Our Lord Jesus Christ (this event was held in 944). According to the legend, the Holy Image was imprinted on the canvas by which Jesus Christ wiped his face. Also on this day, the martyr Diomid is worshiped by a doctor, who is prayed for in various diseases and ailments, and Feodorovskaya icon of the Mother of God.

In each of the three Spas it is customary to sanctifyA certain product, which after consecration becomes the main dish of this day. In Honey Spas it is honey, in Apple - apples and other fruits. And in the Bread Savior it is customary to bake bread from a new crop and, naturally, consecrate it, and then serve it. People talk about this holiday like this: "The Third Savior of the Bread". He is considered the day when you need to thank the Lord for daily bread.

Also this holiday is called Nut Savior (or nuts), because this day ripens hazel (forestnuts). From that day it was permitted to start harvesting hazel in the forests. Therefore, in addition to bread from the new harvest, it is also customary to serve various dishes with nuts on the table. By the way, it was believed that a good harvest for nuts predicts a rich harvest of bread for the next year.

This holiday is also known as Canvas Savior, Savior on canvas or Savior on canvas, because on that day it is customary to tradecanvases and canvases. The most famous fair was held in the village of Zeleny Gory (Nizhny Novgorod district), with it the saying is connected: "First Savior - on the water stand, Second Savior - apples eat, Third Spas - on green mountains canvases sell".

The Bread Savior is day of preparation for the completion of summer field work, so it is not celebrated with such a grand scale astwo previous ones. Peasants are not up to the festivities: you need to complete all summer work in the field, until the rains have gone. However, fairs that day were arranged, and it was believed that trade would be particularly favorable.

Before the Bread Savior, on August 28, they finish harvesting and sow winter bread. In the people this holiday is called Dozhinki (Dosvki), in the church calendar, the Dormition corresponds to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. But in some places the dozhinki and dockings were timed not to the Assumption, but to the Third Savior.

The sowing of winter rye was a whole rite. In the morning they made a joint home prayer, afterwhose wives saw their husbands on the field with bread and salt. At the same time it was necessary to lay three sheaves on the cart, and already placed bags with rye, intended for sowing. Upon arrival, on the field of sowing dogs, children were met with a pie with buckwheat porridge. This cake was eaten by the whole family after sowing winter crops.

On the Bread Savior it is customary to note the flight of birds, especially cranes and swallows. But swallows fly to all three of the Savior (in the firstsince their departure was observed even in the Honey Spas), so special attention is paid to the cranes. It is believed that if the Crane flies to the Third Spas, then the Feast of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (October 14) will be frosty, which will mark the early beginning of winter.

Even on this day, they consecrated new wells, cleaned healing springs by the fall, drank underground water, and circled wells, as if closing a warm time. The Third Savior is the day of final farewell to the summer. And although the official calendar on August 29 - still summer, according to the national calendar by this time, autumn is already in full swing.