Bulgaria Celebrates the Day of the Enlighteners
Today Bulgarians celebrate the Day of the Enlighteners.
On the first of November, we pay tribute to the work of writers and educators who preserved the spiritual values ​​of the nation.
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will mark the holiday with a celebration dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of Saint Paisius of Hilendar (Paisii Hilendarski) and the 260th anniversary of the writing of "Slavic Bulgarian History" (Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya). The guest of the academic celebration will be the president Rumen Radev.
The Speaker of Parliament Vezhdi Rashidov will donate books dedicated to the activities of the National Assembly to the "Ivan Vazov" National Library in Plovdiv.
A procession on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first celebration of the Day of the Enlighteners will take place in Plovdiv. It will include representative groups from all Plovdiv schools. The procession will start from the square in front of the Humanities High School and will pass along the central pedestrian street. At a ceremony in front of the Military Club, awards will be presented to teachers who worked together with their students on the "People's Enlighteners and Me" project.
On this day, tribute is paid to the work of writers, educators, fighters for national liberation, who preserved the spiritual values of the nation and its morals over the centuries. Read More...