Every year on May 9, Christians of the Eastern rite celebrate the day of Nikolai Spring. This holiday is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Other names of the holiday - Nikolai Teply, Nikolai Spring.

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The traditions of the holiday.

The believers have two holidays dedicated to St. Nicholas. One of them is celebrated in the winter - December 6, on the day of the death of St. Nicholas, and the other in the spring - on the day of transferring his relics from the world of Lycian to Bari.

According to biblical legend, during the transfer of the relics of the saint, there was a healing of all the people who were in the temple.

On the day of Nikolai Vesenny, it is customary to pray to St. Nicholas. In prayers, believers traditionally ask for protection from rainfalls and cold. Also on the holiday in ancient times there was a tradition of consecration of horses with the help of holy water, and so that the horse was not tormented by unclean forces, the rider rode on it in the field.

On this day, they also began to sow buckwheat and cut the sheep.

The tradition of Muskolshchini is associated with Nikolai Vesennya: a real feast was arranged in the forest, which lasted all night with round dances, songs, and spring. The people said: " This means that the real summer heat will come only after May 9.

Prayer on the day of Nikolai Spring.

O ourselves of our father, our father Nikolai, the shepherd and teacher of everyone who, with Vera, turns under your protection and with a warm prayer beg you:

hurry and protect the herd of Christ from the wolves that destroy Him. Our Ukraine and every Christian country, and protect the whole world and save your holy prayers from earthquakes, the advance of strangers and national rebellions, feuds; From hunger, poet, flood, fire, sword and death of any person guard.

And as you pardoned three husbands sitting in prison, and saved them from the anger of the royal and deaths, so have mercy on us that we are in mind, word and deed in the darkness of sins.