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ST. SARGIS HOLIDAY HAS BECOME MORE POPULAR
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, ARMENPRESS: St. Sargis Holiday has become more
popular in the recent several years, ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan
told a news conference, Armenpress reports. "In our days it is marked
as a holiday of love, and St. Sargis is considered a mediator saint
between lovers," said Hranush Kharatyan.
St. Sargis Holiday is celebrated 63 days before Easter, on a Saturday
falling sometime between January 18 and February 23.
On the night of the holiday young people eat salty pies and don't
drink water to encourage dreaming at night. They believe that St.
Sargis decides their fate, that the person who gives them water to
drink in their dreams will become their future spouse.
People also put a plate with flour outside their homes to have a
record of St. Sargis's horse riding through the flour. They believe
St. Sargis appears with lightening speed on his radiant horse, and
that the traces left on the flour serve as a good omen to bring them
luck. In people's imagination St. Sargis is handsome and appears with
a spear, a gold helmet and gold armor.
This year the Armenian Apostolic Church will celebrate the holiday
February 4.
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, ARMENPRESS: St. Sargis Holiday has become more
popular in the recent several years, ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan
told a news conference, Armenpress reports. "In our days it is marked
as a holiday of love, and St. Sargis is considered a mediator saint
between lovers," said Hranush Kharatyan.
St. Sargis Holiday is celebrated 63 days before Easter, on a Saturday
falling sometime between January 18 and February 23.
On the night of the holiday young people eat salty pies and don't
drink water to encourage dreaming at night. They believe that St.
Sargis decides their fate, that the person who gives them water to
drink in their dreams will become their future spouse.
People also put a plate with flour outside their homes to have a
record of St. Sargis's horse riding through the flour. They believe
St. Sargis appears with lightening speed on his radiant horse, and
that the traces left on the flour serve as a good omen to bring them
luck. In people's imagination St. Sargis is handsome and appears with
a spear, a gold helmet and gold armor.
This year the Armenian Apostolic Church will celebrate the holiday
February 4.