St George’s Day 2024 / When is Saint George's Day - When does the feast fall? 2024
Easter is approaching and with it its celebration St.i Heyorgyu which is considered mobile since it depends on the Shining.
At 23 His memory is usually celebrated on April St. George. it is about a mobile holiday and every year is celebrated accordingly when is easter.
It is a great celebration of Orthodoxy and because certain tropes are sung for his memory St. George contain resurrection words, the celebration it is not celebrated before the Resurrection of Christ.
So when April 23 falls before Easter, i.e. before or on the same day as her Easter Sunday, then the feast of Saint George is postponed for the second day of Easter. If not, then is normally celebrated on 23 April.
This year the Saint George celebrates on its regular date, that is, on 23 April, since Easter falls on 16 April.
According to the orthodox tradition, par’ all that the calendar includes more than 50 figures named "George", the saint officially celebrated is Saint George the Great Martyr and Trophy Bearer.
The life and martyrdom of Saint George
According to the orthodox tradition, par’ all that the calendar includes more than 50 figures named "George", the saint officially celebrated is Saint George the Great Martyr and Trophy Bearer.
Saint George lived during the reign of Emperor Diocletian at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th century. He came from Asia Minor and specifically Cappadocia and was the scion of an aristocratic family and an officer in the Roman army.
The 303 A.D., when the persecutions of Diocletian began, George did not hesitate to confess his Christian faith, causing the anger of Diocletian, because he held a high office and was one of the officers he held in high esteem.
At first, showered him with wealth, land and slaves to convert and when George refused, the Roman Emperor subjected him to horrible tortures.
Christian tradition describes that after they speared Saint George, they tore his flesh with a special wheel of knives. Afterward, he was thrown into a pit of slaked lime and then forced to walk in hot metal shoes. According to the Christian tradition, from’ all these tests, God miraculously kept him alive.
George was finally martyred by beheading, the manufacture 23 April of the year 303 A.D. In the calculation of the Christian historian and apologist Saint Eusebius, this day corresponded to the Friday of the Transcendent Easter.
The Christians took his remains and buried them with his mother's, which was witnessed on the same or the following day. Christian tradition states that the faithful servant of George, Pasikrates, fulfilling his wish, received the relic of George, along with that of his mother, and carried them to Lydda in Palestine. From there, the Crusaders carried them to the West.