Today is the day when traditions, religion and folk wisdom are intertwined. On that day, the church honors the Apostle and Evangelist Mark, and in the folk calendar - this is a period of signs, which determined what the summer, harvest and even the amount of honey would be.
Apostle Mark: Evangelist, missionary and martyr
St. Mark was one of the 70 apostles. He was born in Jerusalem and came to Christ thanks to the Apostle Peter. It was in Rome, being near Peter, that he wrote the Gospel from Mark, which became one of the four main texts of the New Testament.
Subsequently, the Apostle went to preach to Egypt, where he founded one of the first Christian communities. However, his life was tragically cut off: during the pagan holiday, which coincided with Easter, the crowd grabbed the saint, cruelly tortured and killed. The Apostle Mark died in prayer, thanking God for his suffering.
Today you cannot give someone advice and pour water unnecessarily. If the weather is clear this day, there will be a hot summer.
That cannot be done on April 25:
- give someone advice;
- make plans for the future;
- pour water unnecessarily;
- Remove the web at home.
Folk signs and beliefs:
- Clear weather - there will be a hot summer;
- starry sky - to a good bread yield;
- rainy day - there will be little honey;
- If the apples have not bloomed, the crop of the apples will be weak.
Angel Day is celebrated:
Basil, John, Joseph, Magdalen, Maria, Mark, Marfa, Nika, Nicodem, Salomia, Sergey, Sylvester, Tamara.
Born April 25:
1214-Louis IX, King of France (1226-1270), head of the 7th and 8th Crusades;
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor, film director and screenwriter, Oscar, Golden Globe Prize laureate and more.
Also on this day:
1507 - German Cartographer Martin Waldzemuller called the recently open continent in America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci;
1719 - the first edition of Daniel Defoe's novel "The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" was published in London;
1826 - a patent for the first car with an internal combustion engine was obtained in the United Kingdom;
1901-Automobile numbers were introduced in the world for the first time in the world;
1994 - the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council was established.
