Bulgarian Holiday Calendar

1 - Sourvaki (St. Vassil’s Day)

6 - St. Yordan’s Day (Epiphany)

7 - St. Ivan’s Day (St. Yoan the Baptist)

8 - Grandmother’s Day (Midwife’s Day)

17 - St. Anton’s Day

18 - St. Atanas’s Day

20 - Rooster’s Day (Day of Fertility)

1 - St. Trifon’s Day (Trifon Zarezan)

2 - Candlemas

3 - St. Simon’s Day

10 - St. Haralampi’s Day

11 - Vlas’s Day (Shrove Day - always on Sundays, eight weeks before Easter)

Shrovetide (the first Sunday before Lent) - always on Sundays, seven weeks before Easter

St. Todor’s Day (Horse Easter) - on Saturdays after Shrovetide

(The last three holidays depend on Easter Day and are not fixed. For the next few years Easter will be celebrated as follows:

2002 - May 5

2003 - April 27

Easter is always on Sundays and is used to determine the days of the Christian holidays, which have no fixed dates.)

1 - Granny Marta’s Day

9 - St. St. 40 Martyrs

25 - Annunciation

 

St. Lazar’s Day - always on Saturdays a week before Easter

Palm Sunday - on Sunday a week before Easter

Easter - look at above-mentioned dates

Low Sunday - on Sunday after Easter

Sofinden - on Monday after Low Sunday (Prayers for healthy cattle and against drought)

14 - St. Martin’s Day

1 - Prophet Yeremiah’s Day

6 - St. Georgi’s Day

12 - St. German’s Day (Prayers against hail)

21 - St. St. Konstantin and Elena’s Day

St. Spas’ Day – always the 40th day after Easter

Pentecost (Holy Trinity) – always the 50th day after Easter

Roussalya (Holy Ghost) - the 51st day after Easter

 

11 - St. Bartholomew’s Day

15 - Vidov Day (Prayers against hailstorms and other natural disasters)

24 - Enyo’s Day

29 - Peter’s Day (St. St. Apostles Peter and Pavel)

30 - Pavlyov’s Day (the Day of the 12 Apostles)

1 - St. Vrach

20 - St. Iliya’s Day

22 - St. Maria Magdalena’s Day

27 - St. Pantelei’s Day

1 - Makavei’s Day

6 - Holy Transfiguration

15 - Assumption

 

1 - St. Simon’s Day (Start of the ecclesiastical year)

8 - Birth of the Holy Virgin

14 - Krustovden (Day of the Cross)

17 - Faith, Hope and Love (and St. Martyr Sofia’s Day)

14 - St. Petko’s Day

19 - St. Yoan Rilski Thaumaturge

26 - St. Dimitur’s Day

27 - Mice Day (Prayers against the evil)

8 - Michaelmas

21 - Presentation of the Holy Virgin

23 - St. Alexander’s Day

30 - St. Andrei’s Day

4 - Day of Martyr Varvara

5 - St. Sava’s Day

6 - St. Nikola’ s Day

20 - St. Martyr Ignat’s Day

24 - Christmas Eve

25 - Christmas

27 - St. Stefan’s Day

31 - New Year’s Eve