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The Elevation of the Holy Cross (Greek: Ύψωση του Τιμίου Σταυρού; also known as the Exaltation of the Holy Cross) is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated on September 14. It is one of the two feast days which is held as a strict fast. The other is the commemoration of the Beheading of John the Forerunner on August 29.

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Elevation of the Holy Cross

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The Elevation of the Holy Cross (Greek: Ύψωση του Τιμίου Σταυρού; also known as the Exaltation of the Holy Cross) is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox...

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Elevation of Holy Cross Church

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The Elevation of Holy Cross Church is a historic Russian Orthodox church in South Naknek, Alaska. It is a small building, roughly similar in size to the...

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called The Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the official translation of the Roman Missal, while the 1973 translation called it The Triumph of the Cross. In...

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Lectionary

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after the Elevation of the Holy Cross is known as the "Lukan Jump". The jump occurs only in the Gospel readings, there is no corresponding jump in the epistles...

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Patronages of Saint George

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and foreign pilgrims, mainly at the feast of Saint George and the feast of the elevation of the Holy Cross (14 September). At Mughni (Armenia), there...

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Mount of the Holy Cross

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Mount of the Holy Cross is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,011-foot...

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Treasure of the Holy Crosses

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The Treasure of the Holy Crosses is a group of items of high historical, artistic and religious interest kept in the Old Cathedral of Brescia in the Chapel...

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(Nepal) (celebrated on the 15th on leap years) Engineer's Day (Romania) Feast of the Cross (Christianity) Elevation of the Holy Cross (Eastern Orthodox) Hindi...

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Basil

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association with the legend of the Elevation of the Holy Cross. In Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century Decameron, the fifth story of the narrative's fourth...

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Our Lady of Kazan

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the Cathedral of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, part of the Convent of the Theotokos (re-established as a monastery in 2005), on the site where the...

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Christians, and the monastery is busiest during pilgrimages at the feast of Saint George (May 6) and the feast of the elevation of the Holy Cross on September...

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lasting from Thursday to Tuesday in Holy Week. In 2017 Minister of Education and Science Aleksandre Jejelava instead set the period from March 8 to 15 as a...

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one of the Celtic 'cross-quarter days', the four days which marked the midpoints between solstice and equinox. The observance of Groundhog Day in the United...

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Helena, the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, recovered the True Cross at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, when she travelled to the Holy Land...

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on various dates since the end of the American Civil War. The holiday was originally publicly presented as a day to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate...

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Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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Pascha) The other Great Feasts are on the Fixed Cycle: The Nativity of the Theotokos — 8 September [O.S. 21 September] The Elevation of the Holy Cross — 14...

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Xeropotamou Monastery

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of the True Cross. For this reason, the monastery also celebrates a patronal feastday on September 14, the feast of the Elevation of the Holy Cross....

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Food and drink prohibitions

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commemorate this legend in a celebration known as the Elevation of the Holy Cross. Horse meat is part of the cuisine of many countries in Europe, but is taboo in...

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Holy Cross Church

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British Columbia Holy Cross Church, Wikwemikong, Ontario Holy Cross Church, Wanzhou Holy Cross Church, Wuxi Church of the Holy Cross, Nin, a Croatian...

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