According to the folk calendar - Ospozhinki, Little Most Pure, Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Celebrated on 21 SeptemberThis date is often called Malaya Most Pure, Oseniny, Ospozhinki, Second Most Pure, Rozhanitsa.
It is dedicated to the birth of the immaculate Virgin Mary, who became the Mother of God, the mother of Jesus Christ. This is the main twelfth holiday of Orthodoxy, celebrated annually on September 21. This day is called Opozhinki in honor of the fact that the harvest has been harvested, grain has been stored for the winter, and winter crops have been sown.
Other holidays on 21 September
- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary among the Orthodox
- Collector's Day in Russia
- World Day of Russian Unity
- Day of Military Glory of Russia - Victory Day of Russian regiments in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380)
- International Day of Peace
- World Alzheimer's Day
- Family and Mother in Birth among the Slavs
- Day of the birth of Russian statehood
- Pause the World Day
- World Gratitude Day
- Zero Emission Day
- Week of the Global Action “We Clean the World” (“Let’s clear the planet of garbage”)
- Armenian Independence Day
- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God Bread (Zapechnaya)
- Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God of Domnitskaya