The twelve holidays (historical-liturgical description). 4th edition. Bitbunov G. S.

The liturgical charters even at the stages of their formation knew attempts to endow individual Christian holidays with the properties of special greatness and solemnity. This idea acquired the most completed form in the Russian Orthodox Church, where 12 of the most important celebrations were classified as a separate group. Despite the objective individual specificity, they are characterized by a number of general features, which are a unique source on the history of worship, as well as liturgical hymnography, hagiography and eortology.

in this textbook compiled by the teacher of the Sretensky spiritual seminary, a comparative The diachronically - synchronous description of the body of the twelve holidays according to the following signs: the event of the holiday, the history of its establishment, the patristic exegetes of the holiday, its dynamics in Orthodox worship, as well as in the non -Orthodox tradition (for example, in the Dochallkon and Western) and Nek. other

for students of spiritual educational institutions, teachers of liturgics, as well as for everyone who is interested and not indifferent to the issues of the history and modernity of the Orthodox holidays.