Saturday, which precedes the feast of the Great Trinity, is called Parental or Memorial. On this day, it is customary to commemorate the deceased loved ones and relatives..

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What not to do on Trinity parental Saturday.

On this day, suicides and those who were not baptized in the Orthodox faith should not be commemorated..

You can not arrange banquets and drink alcohol in the cemetery.

It is advisable not to leave food on the graves of the deceased.

You can’t commemorate the dead with bad words, remember them insults and bad deeds.

Signs of Trinity Memorial Saturday.

It is believed that on this day mermaids come out of the water and swing on the branches of birches.. To protect themselves from them, it was customary to burn fires along the banks of the rivers..

If you sow barley and hemp on Trinity Saturday, there will be a harvest.

Rain on Memorial Saturday - there will be a good harvest and there will be no frost all summer.

From Trinity Saturday they don’t sweep for three days, on the fourth they clean the house.