Saint John of Rila will be celebrated by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church: Program of eventstranslated

Saint John of Rila will be celebrated by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church through a series of events organized between October 17-19, in Sofia and at the Rila Monastery. This year marks 1150 years since the birth of the saint and 1080 years since his passage to the Lord.

The program will start on Saturday at 17:00, when His Holiness Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch, will be received at the Synodal Palace by His Beatitude Father Patriarch Daniil and metropolitan members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

At 18:00, the two Prime Ministers will inaugurate at the National Palace of Culture the monumental exhibition "The Holy Mountain in Sofia", dedicated to the work of the Greek artist Eftimios Varlamis (1942-2016). The event is organized under the auspices and with the support of the Metropolitan City of Sofia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic.

The program will continue on Sunday at the Patriarchal Cathedral "Saint Alexander Nevski" in Sofia, when the Holy Liturgy will be celebrated starting at 09:30, and then a trisaghion will be performed at the tomb of the worthy memorial Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria.

The demonstrations will end on Monday, the main day of commemoration of Saint John...