/ world today news/ On today’s Monday, June 29, the Orthodox Church simultaneously honors the memory of the great apostles Peter and Paul, disciples of Christ.
The most important circumstances of their lives are described in the book “Acts of the Apostles” (New Testament), and we also read about the apostle Peter in the Gospels. Peter was originally called Simon and was the son of a fisherman from Bethsaida of Galilee. His brother Andrew was the first to become a disciple of Christ and brought Simon to Jesus. The Savior named him “Cepha” (in Hebrew) or Peter (in Greek), which means “stone”. The name of the apostle Peter is constantly mentioned in the Gospel. He was one of Christ’s favorite disciples. When he led Jesus to judgment, only Peter and one of the disciples followed him.
However, in the court of the high priest, overcome by cowardice, he denied Christ three times. When the rooster crowed, he remembered the Savior’s prediction: “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know Me. (Luke 22:31-34), and he repented bitterly.
After the resurrection, Christ first appeared to Peter to restore his apostleship. It is traditionally believed that Peter was a teacher of the Jews and Paul a teacher of the Gentiles. Peter preached in Judea, Galilee, Samaria, Caesarea, Jerusalem, Syria, Antioch. He also reached Egypt. Traveled to Britain, Greece, was in Corinth.
Around 67 he arrived in Rome. There Emperor Nero began persecutions against the Christians. Peter was imprisoned and on June 29 put to death. They condemned him to death on the cross. However, Peter asked to be crucified upside down, as he did not consider himself worthy of the same death as the Savior.
The holiday in honor of Saints Peter and Paul is also for protection against fire, conflagration, thunder and hail. In some regions Pavlovden is celebrated separately on June 30 and is called Palovden (from the verb pala). In the folk calendar, St. Peter’s Day is preceded by St. Peter’s Day, which begins with the first week after Pentecost. On this day, fasting ends and a young Peter’s chicken is eaten. The holiday coincides with harvest time and is worked on, usually in the first half of the day. In some areas, congregations are held on St. Peter’s Day. Ritual bread is kneaded and early apples are eaten. In some places, they are given as memorials for dead children. In many villages, congregations are held on this day, sacrificial sacrifices are slaughtered for the saints and a common table is laid with songs and people. And here, as in the majority of our folk calendar, within the framework of the Christian celebration of the first apostles, ritual actions of an atropean character are inserted.
First of all, this is the sacrifice of a rooster, and it is known that even in ancient mythologies, the bird is a sign of the higher, the heavenly. The rooster, for example, is a solar sign: it, like the sun, measures time and is a symbol of resurrection. His sacrifice is associated with the lighting of the fire and, accordingly, with the appeasement of the forces that burn nature. Thus, the rooster, associated with life and death, symbolizes fertility and productivity; therefore, he is often a sacrifice in wedding rites, which will ensure the fertility of the marriage. In the New Testament, the rooster became a sign of Peter’s repentance.
Names of Petrovday are: Peter, Petrana, Petya, Pavel, Pavlin, Pavlina, Polina, Penka, Pencho, Kamen…
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