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Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Barbara's Day today

Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Barbara's Day today
Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Barbara's Day today

The Eastern Orthodox Church is celebrating Saint Barbara's Day today. Barbara's martyrdom took place at the beginning of the 4th century. She sacrificed her life for the Gospel.

Saint Barbara is considered a guardian angel of children. In their prayers, pious people ask her to cure children, to be given children or to be protected from unexpected death.

In the Georgian pagan pantheon, the solar deity and his mother Barbale were revered and respected. As a sign of respect, sun-shaped pies were baked at the festival. After Christianity was spread in Georgia, due to the striking resemblance between the names, the solar diety's mother and Saint Barbara were associated with each other and deemed as one. Considering all this, it is not surprising that Georgians have the tradition of baking pies (the Georgian bean pie called lobiani) on Barbaroba holiday. 

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