Krympress reports:
The Church on April 5 honors the memory of the Military Martyr Nikon Pechersky. This is an ancient Russian Orthodox figure, who has long been the post of abbot of the Kiev Pechersky Monastery and the Church in the 11th century, founded a monastery in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tmutarakani. And it was under Nikon that icon painting schools were created in the Pechersk Lavra. Nikon is rightfully considered the ancestor of the annalistic science.
On the people on April 5, it was customary to arrange a lot of cleaning in the house and in the yard. In the gardens and gardens in Nikon’s day, crumbs, grain, sunflower seeds were scattered, inviting birds. The peasants were also accepted for putting agricultural equipment in order.
Weather signs for this day are as follows:
- A warm day, but at night frost — in April there will be good weather.
- April 5, the first spring thunder, is the snow still lies? Summer will be cold.
- The river wave goes against the current — to the deterioration of the weather and to sediment.
- On the night of April 5, the sky is with the stars? In the morning there will be frosts.
- In the spring there was no water in the river — there will be a hot summer without abundant precipitation.
AND! The people believed, if you drink mint tea on this day, then the whole family will be healthy during the year.
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