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On December 26, the Catholic Church celebrates the year of St. Stephen, deacon and first martyr. St. Stephen is a Christian saint. Stephen was the first Christian martyr and one of the seven deacons of the original community in Jerusalem. He was sentenced to death by stoning in 34 AD. He breeds on Stefanovo on December 26, and on that day in Slovenia is often the blessing of horses. It doesn’t really have much in common with horses. He was proclaimed the patron saint of horses and livestock in general to replace him with a pagan deity who protected horses and livestock for Indo-European peoples. I took part in today’s horse-raising in a neighboring village.
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You know the custom of blessing horses?
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A horse is a noble animal. Do you agree?
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This is interesting, I think it is a nice tradition to bless horses.
We celebrate St. Stephen’s day on December 27 here in Bulgaria.
Thank you for your visit and nice comment, dear Ellie…but this is not clear to me … how is it?
It’s because we are Orthodox not Catholic, and there are slight differences.
For Christmas and New Year I know you are celebrating it later …. but I really didn’t know about Stefan …. thanks, dear Ellie … again I know something new
Actually, in Bulgaria we celebrate Christmas on December 25, and New Year on January 1 even though we are Orthodox. It’s complicated, haha.
Yeah it’s really a little complicated …. my grandfather was of orthodox religion and as long as he was alive we celebrated 2x every christmas and new year so i know this
This is a very old tradition here
Thanks for viewing and a friendly comment, dear Vidocka….a beautiful and interesting tradition … I saw it for the first time
I haven’t seen that tradition before
You have to look once … it’s beautiful and interesting
I will .. maybe next year
You won’t be sorry to see, dear Vida
you’d figure he would need to be drawn and quartered to be the patron saint of horses
Thanks for watching and kind comment, dear friend…To hang? Where to cross?
there is a type of execution where you’re pulled apart by four horses. St Stephen was stoned, so he should be the patron of architects or something
But I don’t know much about this whole story … I have to read to be more aware
it is most likely what you said, they used the first saint they had to replace the pagan horse god. they did that all the time
I really don’t know how the church defines it
Always enjoy learning new traditions like this one.
Thank you for your visit and nice comment, dear Carol…a beautiful and interesting tradition …. I also saw it for the first time
It’s interesting how different traditions are created.
Thanks for viewing and a friendly comment, dear friend….indeed, every nation has its own traditions