Lazarus Saturday
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Vinony's link graph records 241 inbound references to Lazarus Saturday, and connects out to pysanka, Lazarus of Bethany and Octave of Easter.
It is catalogued under topics including April observances, Bulgarian traditions and Byzantine Rite.
Vinony links it to 27 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Also called
- List Bulgarian : Лазаровден , romanized : Lazarovden Greek : Λαζαροσάββατο , romanized : Lazarosabbato Russian : Лазарева суббота , romanized : Lazareva Subbota Serbian : Врбица , romanized : Vrbica or, Лазарева субота romanized: Lazarova Subota
- Observed by
- Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Christians
- Type
- Eastern Christian
- Date
- Variable (depends on the paschal computus )
- 2025 date
- 12 April
- 2026 date
- 4 April
- 2027 date
- 24 April
- Frequency
- Annual
- Related to
- Raising of Lazarus , Great Lent , Palm Sunday
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Christian holy day
- Subclass of
- Saturday
- Followed by
- Palm Sunday
- Image
- The Lazarus Raising. Novgorod icon-painting school, 15th cent., Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. Saint-Petersburg, Russia.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lazareva Subota
- commemorates
- Raising of Lazarus
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Encyclopedic overview
Lazarus Saturday in Eastern Christianity (consisting of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches) refers to the moveable feast before Palm Sunday to which it is liturgically linked. It celebrates the raising of Lazarus of Bethany. Bethany is recorded in the New Testament as a small village in Judaea, the home of the siblings Mary of Bethany, Martha, and Lazarus, as well as that of Simon the Leper.
John's gospel reports that "Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead." Presumably, it is where he spent the Great Sabbath that occurs immediately before Passover, prior to his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Jesus is reported to have lodged there during Holy Week, and it is where his anointing by Lazarus' sister Mary took place a few days later on Holy Wednesday.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lazarus Saturday” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.