Not at all generous for the name day on February 15, on this day male names represents only Vasily. Women's names are not indicated at all.

According to the church calendar for 2020, February 15 is celebrated big celebration Candlemas. Previously, people believed that winter meets spring today. If it is warm and sunny on this day, it means that spring will be early and gentle, cold with wind predicts bad weather in spring.

In Russia, name days were a long-awaited event for girls and boys. Even if you were not the hero of the occasion, you were still waiting for refreshments, fun and gifts.

Those who did not have the means celebrated Angel Day much more modestly, but it was impossible to do without a porridge pie. At the end of the holiday, the birthday people thanked everyone who came to rejoice for them.

Now, name days are practically not celebrated, but many mentally say the words of a prayer to their patron, expressing gratitude for their participation, kindness, and assistance.

The holiday is closely connected with the birth of Christ and the appearance of His people. In translation, “sretenie” means “meeting”. This is the day the Old Testament met the New.

In those days, the old man Simeon lived, it was predicted to him that he would die only after he saw the Savior. He lived for over 300 years.

Once in the church, Simeon saw an old man with a woman in whose arms a baby was sleeping. Approaching them, he realized that the child was Jesus. The saint was relieved, taking the baby in his arms, and proclaimed him the Savior. This is how the people knew that the Messiah had been born.

After some time, Simeon calmly died, for the righteous deeds committed in life, he was recognized as a saint.

February 15 - Meeting of the Lord

This holiday is celebrated by Orthodox Christians from the very first day of the appearance of the Son of God on Earth. This happened according to the Providence of God in the Temple. The Candlemas teaches us that if we live in the truth and prefer the truth, we can count on the Lord coming to us. From the time of Adam and Eve, it was promised to send the Son of God to earth to atone for human sins, and when the incarnation of the Word of God appeared on Earth, only the righteous could see its appearance.

One of them turned out to be Elder Simeon, a pious righteous man, one of the 70 elders who were destined to translate Jewish texts. It is noteworthy that Simeon was very surprised when he read that the Virgin Mary should give birth to a son, and even tried to reverse the events. But an angel appeared to him and held him by the hand. The elder was predicted not to end his life until he saw the Son of God with his own eyes. And so it happened. Together with Simeon, the righteous Anna, the prophetess, saw the appearance of Jesus.

February 15 - National Flag Day of Canada

Canada's National Flag Day has been observed since 1996, when Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced the date to commemorate the first hoisting of the red maple leaf flag. This drawing appeared among Canadians relatively recently - only since 1965. Starting from the 15th century, the cross of St. George flaunted on the flag, later the moisture of the Orleans dynasty with royal lilies began to be used.

Today, the maple leaf is the pride of all Canadian citizens, wherever they are. Canada's current calling card represents the country for the first time independently of the British flag, and features a distinctive design that cannot be confused with any other. Maple Leaf emphasizes the unity of the nation on two sides of the mainland, washed by two oceans. Two colors symbolize the equal status of the state languages ​​- English and French.

February 15 - the formation of Serbia as a state (the day of the first uprising)

These two holidays in Serbia are connected. The Serbian uprising against the Turkish yoke took place in 1804, its leader was Georgy Petrovich. Although the state independence of the country was not returned, the Sretensky constitution was adopted, but subsequently, under pressure from the Porte, it was canceled. Austria and Russia are also involved in its abolition. The Serbian state was formed much later, after the second state uprising.

February 15 - Perfume Pagoda Festival in Vietnam

Every year, on the 6th day of the first month, as far as moon calendar year, the longest holiday in Vietnam opens. In the province of Khatai, there is a fragrant pagoda - a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists from all over the country. At the beginning of the Lunar year, prayers are offered to the Almighty in order to protect your family from evil spirits and receive the support of good forces. The pagoda festival takes place in the temple, which is not just a building, but a whole mountain complex. Every year it receives more than 500 thousand pilgrims and tourists. The holiday lasts more than 2 months.

February 15 - the beginning of the Carnival in Nice

In total, there are three oldest carnivals in the world, one of them was born in 1294 in Nice. It all started with the fact that the Duke of Anjou wanted to stay there for a few days. Rejoicing swept the whole city. Balls, fireworks, circus and dance performances were held every day. It is on the 15th that the meeting of His Majesty the Carnival takes place, in the evening the Queen of the holiday is chosen.

Place Masséna, on ordinary days living a traditional life, during the days of the carnival is transformed beyond recognition. It is painted by 120 artists, then decorated with 150,000 light bulbs. During the celebrations are beautiful holidays flowers - carnival processions, real parades, about 20 platforms are decorated with fresh flowers (4000-5000 units). With each flower there is a long painstaking work, and as a result, a fragrant mosaic is born. Another feature of the carnival is carts with giant papier-mâché dolls. This is the main attraction of the carnival, the weight of each of them reaches 2 tons.

February 15 in the folk calendar

Candlemas

Meeting - means a meeting. It was on February 15, according to the new style, that the holy elder Simeon and Anna, the prophetess, met the newly-born baby, whom the parents, according to Jewish law, brought to the temple on the 40th day.

Folk omens that day are also associated with the meeting. Firstly, this is a meeting of spring (the second meeting is the Magpie holiday, and the third is the Annunciation). After Sretensky frosts, one should not set off on a sleigh journey. This is a celebration of the meeting of spring, another name is Gromnitsy, from the name of candles (grommets). On that day, a lock of hair is set on fire to each other - to prevent a headache.

Special care should be taken at the Candlemas about poultry. "Candlemas - winter met summer." Signs about the weather said: sweeping - it means that spring will be late. If you throw a stick on the road, and it is covered with snow, this means that there will be little grass to feed livestock. A quiet and sunny day foreshadowed a good flax harvest.

Historical events February 15

The war in Afghanistan lasted 9 years, 1 month and 18 days, and finally, on February 15, 1989, Soviet troops left the country. The last soldiers crossed the border in the area of ​​the Amu Darya River near Termez. February 15 is celebrated in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. This date keeps the memory of 14 thousand Soviet soldiers who died on the territory of Afghanistan - the biggest losses of the Soviet Army since the end of World War II. The memory of the fallen soldiers still echoes with pain in the hearts of people - widows and mothers, relatives and friends of the fallen soldiers who did their duty.

On this day in 1985, the first student came to the future Academy of Music for her first lesson. Since then, the academy has trained many generations of musicians. The founders of the institution for gifted youth were the sisters Evgenia and Elena Gnesins, the director of the academy was the teacher and organizer pianist V.I. Safonov. Initially, the division into school and academy did not exist.

In total, five Gnessin sisters took part in the work and development of the school and the academy. They were brought up during the Silver Age and tried to meet the criteria of the most outstanding musicians of our time. Even before the revolution, the school won an excellent reputation, which it has not lost in our time.

February 15, 1919- the day of the foundation of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Gorky (today it is called the BDT named after Tovstonogov)

The theater was opened by F. Schiller's comedy "Don Carlos". Alexander Blok, who had worked for some time as the theater's artistic director, was appointed chairman of the Directorate of the BDT. Maxim Gorky put forward the slogan - "To the heroic people - a heroic theater!" In their productions, the heroes asserted the ideals of goodness, honor and dignity, opposing them to the cruelty of the world around them. Georgy Tovstonogov was the inspirer of the theater for several decades. After his death in 1989, Kirill Lavrov took over.

February 15 were born

Savva Timofeevich Morozov(February 15, 1862 - May 26, 1905), a famous businessman who came out of the dynasty of the serf nobles Ryumins. His father was able to earn money for the ransom, paying a huge amount of money, he was released, and enrolled in the merchants guild. The family then received hereditary honorary citizenship. The object of their work was the largest Morozovskaya Nikolskaya manufactory, where Savva subsequently ran, who became the most famous of the Morozov clan. He got acquainted with the textile business at the manufactories of England, was educated at Cambridge. Savva Morozov left the memory of his descendants by doing charity work.

Musa Mustafovich Jalil(Zalilov) (February 15, 1906 - August 25, 1944) - Soviet Tatar poet. His collections of poems: "Poems and Poems" and "Order-bearing millions" were published even before the Great Patriotic War. Also known are his librettos for the operas staged at the Kazan Opera House, Altynchech, and The Fisherwoman. During the war he was taken prisoner and was executed by the Nazis in 1944.

Elena Bonner(February 15, 1923 - June 18, 2011 - June 18, 2011) - publicist, human rights activist, dissident. She was born in Turkestan, in the city of Mary. In 1972, she left the CPSU for political reasons and married Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, and became his friend, wife and colleague in exile. In 1897, together with Sakharov, she took part in the creation of the Memorial Society. Under President Yeltsin, she worked as a member of the human rights commission, but after the outbreak of the war in Chechnya, she publicly left this post. She has received honorary doctorates of law from many universities around the world.

Name day February 15

On February 15, the owner of one of the most common names in Russia, Vasily, celebrates his name day. Russian name has Greek roots English language this name sounds Basil, in French - Basil.

Names in February (how to name boys and girls in February)

Birthdays in February:

1 - Anton, Arseny, Grigory, Efim, Makar, Mark, Nikolai, Peter, Savva, Fedor, Feodosia.

2 - Efim, Zakhar, Inna, Lavrenty, Leo, Pavel, Rimma.

3 - Agnia, Anastasy, Valerian, Eugene, Ivan, Ilya, Maxim, Theodosius.

4 - Agathon, Anastassy, ​​Gabriel, George, Efim, Ivan, Joseph, Leonty, Makar, Nikolai, Peter, Timofey, Yakov.

5 - Gennady, Evdokia, Catherine, Clement, Seraphim, Fedor, Feoktist.

6 - Anastasy, Vavila, Gerasim, Denis, Ivan, Xenia, Nikolai, Pavel, Timofey.

7 - Alexander, Anatoly, Boris, Vasily, Vitaly, Vladimir, Grigory, Dmitry, Moses, Peter, Stepan, Felix, Philip.

8 - Arkady, Gabriel, David, Ivan, Joseph, Clement, Maria, Peter, Semyon, Fedor.

9 - Dmitry, Ivan, Peter.

10 - Vladimir, George, Ephraim, Ignatius, Isaac, Leonty, Olga, Fedor, Theodosius.

11 - Gerasim, Dmitry, Ivan, Ignatius, Jonah, Konstantin, Lavrenty, Leonty, Luka, Roman, Julian, Yakov.

12 - Vasily, Vladimir, Grigory, Ivan, Hippolyte, Clement, Maxim, Pelageya, Peter, Rustik, Stepan, Fedor.

13 - Athanasius, Victor, Ivan, Ilya, Nikita, Nikifor.

14 - Vasily, Gabriel, David, Nikolai, Peter, Semyon, Timothy, Tryphon.

16 - Anna, Vasily, Vladimir, Dmitry, Ivan, Mikhail, Nikolai, Pavel, Roman, Svyatoslav, Semyon, Simon, Timofey.

17 - Alexander, Alexei, Andrei, Anna, Arkady, Boris, Vasily, George, Dmitry, Catherine, Ivan, Joseph, Cyril, Methodius, Mikhail, Nikolai, Peter, Seraphim, Sergei, Sidor, Fedor, Feoktist, Yuri.

18 - Agafya, Alexandra, Anton, Vasilisa, Makar, Mikhail, Theodosius.

19 - Alexander, Anatoly, Arseny, Vasily, Dmitry, Ivan, Maxim, Maria, Martha, Sevastyan, Christina, Julian.

20 - Alexander, Alexei, Luke, Peter.

21 - Alexander, Andrey, Zakhar, Makar, Nikifor, Peter, Polycarp, Savva, Semyon, Sergey, Stepan, Fedor.

22 - Vasily, Gennady, Ivan, Innokenty, Nikifor, Pankrat, Peter.

23 - Akim, Anastasy, Anna, Anton, Arkady, Valentina, Valerian, Vasily, Galina, Gennady, German, Grigory, Ivan, Karp, Luka, Mark, Peter, Pimen, Prokhor, Semyon.

24 - Vlas, Vsevolod, Gabriel, Dmitry, Zakhar, Fedora.

25 - Alexey, Anton, Evgeny, Maria.

26 - Anisim, Anna, Artemy, Vasily, Vera, Vladimir, Gabriel, Eugene, Zosima, Zoya, Ivan, Irina, Leonty, Martin, Mikhail, Nikandr, Nikolai, Pavel, Svetlana, Semyon, Sylvester, Stepan, Timofey.

27 - Abraham, Anisim, Isaac, Cyril, Mikhail, Tryphon, Fedor.

28 - Alexey, Anisim, Arseny, Athanasius, Euphrosyne, Ivan, Mikhail, Nikolai, Nikon, Pafnuty, Peter, Semyon, Sofia.

Church Orthodox holidays in February

On February 1, the church celebrates the feast day of St. Macarius the Great of Egypt, who lived in the 4th century. After the death of his wife and parents, he prayed to God for an experienced mentor on the path of spiritual life. He became the hermit elder, following whose example Macarius chose the ascetic path. Like his future teacher Anthony the Great, Macarius experienced many temptations from the evil one. Through the prayer of the ascetic, numerous healings were performed, and he saved many in dangerous circumstances. The monk spent 60 years in the desert, being in constant conversation with the Lord.

February 3rd- Day of Remembrance . Saint Maximus, the son of a wealthy Greek dignitary, lived in the 15th-16th centuries, he received an excellent education, knew several languages, traveled a lot, after which he accepted monasticism in the Vatopedi monastery on Athos. In 1515, at the request of the Moscow Grand Duke Vasily III, he was sent to Moscow to translate manuscripts from the prince's library. Church disturbances turned for the monk into imprisonment and long years of church prohibition and supervision. Maxim Grek spent his last years at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, continuing to translate the Psalter into Slavonic. He was canonized as a saint in 1988.

Memory, one of the most revered Russian saints, is celebrated February 6. Blessed Xenia was born in the first half of the 18th century. in St. Petersburg. Xenia's husband died, leaving her a widow at the age of twenty-six. Having distributed all her property, the saint put on the costume of her late husband and responded only to his name. She was considered crazy, but it was her cross - a feat of foolishness voluntarily undertaken. Blessed Xenia spent her nights in the open field in prayer or carrying bricks to build a church at the Smolensk cemetery. For feats and patience, the Lord vouchsafed her the gift of insight into hearts and the future. The blessed one died at the age of seventy-one and was buried at the Smolensk cemetery, where a chapel was subsequently built over her grave.

February 7- Memorial Day, the Archbishop of Constantinople, who lived in Cappadocia in the 4th century. Saint Gregory received an excellent education. Together with his friend, the future Saint Basil, he spent some time in the wilderness, then returned home and received the rank of presbyter. After the death of the Patriarch of Constantinople, at the invitation of the Council of Antioch, Saint Gregory took his place and led the fight against heretics. His numerous theological writings and sermons made an enormous contribution to the unity of the church. The saint ended his life in 389, leaving the patriarchal throne and returning to the wilderness.

February 9th- the day of the transfer of relics to Constantinople from Koman, where he died in 407 on the way to exile, convicted by order of Empress Eudoxia for exposing the vices that reigned at court. The transfer of the relics from Koman took place in 438.

12th of February- Cathedral of Ecumenical Teachers and Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. This common memorial day was approved in 1084 by Metropolitan John of Evchait. At the end of the XI century. in Constantinople, there were ecclesiastical disorders associated with disputes over which of the three saints was worthy of greater reverence. By God's will, three saints appeared to the metropolitan and, declaring that they were equal before God, ordered them to stop disputes and establish a common celebration for them.

Memorial Day of the Holy Martyr Tryphon of Apamea - The 14th of February. The saint lived in the 3rd century. in Phrygia. From a young age, the Lord gave him the power to cast out demons and heal various diseases. Helping the suffering, he demanded only one payment - faith in Jesus Christ. During the persecution of Christians, Saint Tryphon openly confessed his faith and courageously endured torments for Christ. In Russia, the martyr has long enjoyed love and special reverence among the people.

February, 15 Orthodox Church celebrates the twelfth holiday. According to the Old Testament law, a woman who gave birth to a baby was forbidden to enter the temple for 40 days. Then the mother came to the temple with the baby to offer the Lord a thankful and cleansing sacrifice. Needing no cleansing Holy Mother of God, nevertheless, brought the Infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem, where she was met by the righteous elder Simeon and the prophetess Anna.

Simeon had a revelation from above that he would not die until he saw the Savior. Taking the Baby in his arms, he glorified God and uttered the famous prophecy: “Now you release your servant, Lord…”. This event marked the meeting of the last righteous of the Old Testament with the Bearer of the New Testament, in which the divine had already met the human. The Feast of the Presentation is one of the oldest in the history of Christianity.

The church celebrates the memory of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates February 21st. The saint was born in the Asia Minor city of Euchait at the end of the 2nd century. For courage and mercy, the Lord enlightened him with a perfect knowledge of Christian truth. He was appointed military commander in Heraclea, where he combined his military service with the preaching of the Gospel among the pagans subordinate to him. During the reign of the emperor Licinius in 319, Saint Theodore suffered torment for Christ and was beheaded with a sword. The biography of Theodore Stratilates was written down by his servant and scribe Uar, also glorified as a saint.

25 February a celebration was established in honor of one of the most famous and revered in Orthodox world. During the iconoclastic heresy of the ninth century. the icon was kept by a pious widow living in Nicaea. To save the shrine from destruction, the widow lowered the icon into the sea with a prayer. Standing on the water, the icon sailed to Athos, where it was discovered by the monks of the Iberian monastery. Placed in the temple, the icon miraculously appeared several times over the gates of the monastery. Appearing in a dream to one of the monks, the Mother of God declared her will: She wants to be the guardian of the monastery. After that, the image was placed over the monastery gates, so the Iberian icon is also called Portaitissa - the Goalkeeper. In the history of the Iversky Monastery, many cases of the intercession and mercy of the Mother of God have been preserved: the deliverance of the monastery from the barbarians, the miraculous replenishment of food supplies, the healing of the sick.

On the same day, the church remembers St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia. The saint was supposedly born in 1292 in Moscow, into a noble boyar family, from childhood he was distinguished by piety, and at the age of 15 he became a monk. He spent more than twenty years in the Moscow Epiphany Monastery. In 1350 Vladyka Theognost consecrated Alexy as Bishop of Vladimir, and after the death of Metropolitan Alexy became his successor. In 1356, the Ecumenical Patriarch Kallistos gave Alexy the right to be considered the archbishop of Kyiv and great Russia with the title of "venerable metropolitan and exarch." The saint labored to pacify the unrest and princely strife, founded numerous cenobitic monasteries, and many miracles happened through his prayers. He reposed in 1378, having lived to a ripe old age, and was buried according to his will in the Miracle Monastery.

February 27- in the ninth century. preached in Moravia in the Slavic language. The brothers compiled the Slavic alphabet and translated the Gospel, the Apostle, the Psalter and many liturgical books into Slavonic, and also introduced worship in the Slavic language. Cyril, who accepted the schema before his death, died in Rome in 869 and was buried in the church of St. Clement.

Names on February 15 according to the church calendar (saints)

February 15/28

Alexy (Aleksey) - defender (Greek); assistant (lat.);
Eusebius (Evsey, Avsey) - pious (Greek);
Euphrosyne (Ephrosyne, Efrosinya) - joyful, cheerful, complacent (Greek);
John (Ivan) - the grace of God, God had mercy (Heb.);
Michael - equal to God, himself like God (Heb.);
Nicholas - conquering people (Greek);
Onesimus (Anisim, Anis) - execution, completion (Greek);
Paphnutius (Panfutius) - old. rare;
Peter - cliff, rock, stone, block of stone (Greek);
Simeon (Semyon) - listen, hear God (Heb.);
Sophia (Sophia) - wisdom, wisdom (Greek).

Do you know that...

On February 15 (28) the Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of the Vilna Icon of the Mother of God. Painted by the Evangelist Luke, the icon later became one of the most highly venerated Christian shrines.

For a long time, the Vilna Icon was considered the ancestral shrine of the Greek emperors in Constantinople. In 1472, the icon came to Moscow - it was transported there by Tsarevna Sophia, who married Prince Ivan III of Moscow. Soon the icon ended up in Vilna - in 1495 the prince blessed his daughter Elena with the icon when she married the Lithuanian King Alexander.

Learn about the meaning and characteristics of names

Women's names Most parents, when choosing a name for their daughter, are guided, among other reasons, by its meaning. Consider the origin and meaning of today's popular female names.

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Name day February 15

Simon, Jordan.

Saint Simeon the Divine Visitor, a righteous old man who lived in Jerusalem. At the instigation of the Holy Spirit, the righteous Simeon met the Divine Infant in the Temple of Jerusalem, took him in his arms (which is why he is called the God-Receiver) and said: "Now release Thy servant, Master!" This meeting took place on February 15 (2), on the fortieth day after the birth of the Lord. In folk rituals, this day is called the Presentation of the Lord.

Holy Martyr Jordan of Trapezuit.

According to the Catholic calendar: Jovita, Faustin, Siegfried.

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