Orthodox Church celebrates day of St. Peter and Paul today
Today is a day of St. Peter-Paul. In connection with
the holiday, liturgy-prayer will be conducted in the Orthodox churches of Georgia.
Solemnity of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul is celebrated on June 29 according
to the old Julian calendar, and according to a new Gregorian calendar - on 12
July. The next day, i.e. on June
30 with an old style calendar, the church recalls the meeting of the saint
apostles: Peter, Andrea, Jacob son of Zebedi, John, Philip, Bartholomew,
Thomas, Matthew, Jacob son of Alpes,
Judah son of
Jacob (Thadeoz) and Simon.
St. Apostle Peter and Paul are distinguished from
other apostles by their contribution and martyr
merit. For this reason the Church recalls them as the “heads of apostles”.
Despite the fact that they reached Christ in different ways, some spiritual
closeness is between them, some similarity, which becomes apparent even with
the fact that the two died at the same time, during the times of the Emperor
Neron, in the year 67, when Peter was tortured on the cross upside down, and
Paul’s head was chopped off.
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