Today women should do what they are not allowed to do on any holiday: We are celebrating an important day
The Serbian Orthodox Church and believers celebrate the day of Saint Nicephorus of Constantinople on March 26, a great confessor of faith and patriarch of Constantinople.
TL;DR
- The Serbian Orthodox Church and believers celebrate Saint Nicephorus of Constantinople on March 26.
- Saint Nicephorus was a patriarch exiled by Emperor Leo the Armenian for defending holy icons.
- He spent 13 years in exile on the island of Proconesus before passing away in 828.
- His incorrupt relics were returned to Constantinople in 846, 19 years after his death.
- The return of his relics coincided with his original date of exile, March 13.
- Folk beliefs suggest performing useful, quiet tasks like mending clothes on this day.
- Lighting a candle in church for the deceased is also a custom.