Orthodox believers celebrate on Tuesday the Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary - the birthday of the mother of Jesus Christ, which is considered the first big holiday of the new church year.
On this day, festive services with prayers in honor of the Virgin Mary are held in Orthodox churches. On the eve, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated an all-night vigil - a special evening service held before important church holidays.
The Nativity of the Virgin is considered one of the great Orthodox holidays and the first in the coming church year. Priests on this day, as on other holidays dedicated to the Mother of God, wear blue vestments, which in the church tradition symbolizes purity and purity. The holiday is celebrated for six days - from 20 (forefeast), the Nativity of the Virgin itself - on September 21 and four days after the holiday, until September 25.
The earliest document commemorating Marymas comes from a hymn written in the sixth century. The feast may have originated somewhere in Syria or Palestine in the beginning of the sixth century, when after the Council of Ephesus, the cult of the Mother of God was greatly intensified, especially in Syria.
The first liturgical commemoration is connected with the sixth century dedication of the Basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est, now called the Church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem. The original church, built in the fifth century, was a Marian basilica erected on the spot known as the Shepherd's Pool and thought to have been the home of Mary's parents. In the seventh century, the feast was celebrated by the Byzantines as the Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since the story of Mary's Nativity is known only from apocryphal sources, the Latin Church was slower in adopting this festival. At Rome, the Feast began to be kept toward the end of the 7th century, brought there by Eastern monks.
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