Holidays
- Motorist Day
- International Mother in Law Day
- A holiday of pleasant surprises
- Feast of the Iveron Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Blanket day
- pumpkin day
- Chicken Steak Day
- Mince Pie Day
- Mule Day
- Day and night howling at the moon
- Zlata Onuchnitsa
Significant dates
1824 The Maly Theater has officially opened in Moscow.
1863 The London Football Association, the world's first highly specialized football union, was founded.
1920 The Council of People's Commissars issued a decree on the sale of Russian art treasures abroad.
1927 A Paris court acquitted the anarchist Schwartzbard, who shot Petliura.
1955 The Republic of Vietnam was created on the territory of South Vietnam with Saigon as its capital.
Persons
On October 26, 1685, Italian composer and harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti was born.
Italian singer (mezzo-soprano) Giudita Pasta was born on October 26, 1797.
On October 26, 1842, Russian painter and writer Vasily Vereshchagin was born.
On October 26, 1880, the Soviet military leader, Lieutenant General of the Engineering Troops Dmitry Karbyshev was born.
On October 26, 1880, Russian writer, poet, critic Andrei Bely was born.
On October 26, 1916, the French politician, 21st President of France (1981-1995) François Mitterrand was born.
On October 26, 1925, Soviet children's writer, film playwright, Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Zheleznikov was born.
On October 26, 1926, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Vladimir Kashpur was born.
Folk calendar
Iverskaya
On this day, Orthodox people celebrate a holiday in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which is also called the Goalkeeper or Gatekeeper. The icon is revered as miraculous; its original, written, according to legend, by the Evangelist Luke, is kept in the Iveron Monastery on Mount Athos, in Greece.
There is a legend about the discovery of the icon. In the 9th century, one resident of Nicaea, wanting to save the face of the Mother of God from the iconoclasts, lowered the icon into the sea, where it was kept for two centuries. In the 11th century, the monks of the Iveron Monastery saw an image of the Mother of God supported by a pillar of fire in the middle of the water surface. The Monk Gabriel of Svyatogorets, at the direction of the Virgin Mary, walked across the water to the icon and transferred it to the monastery. However, in the morning the face was discovered above the gates of the monastery. This was repeated several times until, in the end, the icon was left in the place that it had chosen for itself. Since then, she began to be called the Gatekeeper or Goalkeeper.
This icon was highly revered in Rus'. They prayed to the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God for deliverance from various everyday troubles and for consolation in grief. Also in prayers they asked for protection from fire and to increase the fertility of the earth.
Russian people usually held baths on Iverskaya. The bathhouse was heated hotly, infusions of medicinal herbs were placed on the shelves, and patients with epilepsy were brought into the steam room. It was said that the healing herbal spirit could drive away illness.
Name day on this day
Veniamin, Innocent, Karp, Nikita, Nikolai, Trofim
Source: Calend.ru.
