Saint Nedelya

Saint Nedelya
Icon of Holy Week
Creature information
FolkloreSlavic Mythology
Origin
DetailsThe embodiment of the day of the week - Sunday

Saint Nedelya (St. Sunday, St. Anastasia, in folk Orthodoxy of the Slavs is the personification of Sunday as day of the week. It is correlated with Saint Anastasia (in Bulgarians also with Saint Kyriakia. The veneration of the Week is associated with the prohibition of various kinds of work (cf. the origin of the Slavic week from not to do).

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