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Folk Orthodoxy

Icon of Saint Blaise blessing four cows
15th-century fragment of the Russian icon Miracle of Florus and Laurus, Blaise, Spyridon

Folk Orthodoxy (Russian: народное православие, romanized: narodnoe pravoslavie; Bulgarian: народно православие, romanized: narodno pravoslavie; Serbian: народно православље, naradno pravoslavlje; Latvian: narodno pravoslavlje) refers to the folk religion and syncretic elements present in the Eastern Orthodox communities.[1] It is a subgroup of folk Christianity, similar to Folk Catholicism. Peasants incorporated many pre-Christian (pagan) beliefs and observances, including coordinating feast days with agricultural life.

  1. ^ Blagojević, Mirko; Todorović, Dragan (2011). Orthodoxy from an Empirical Perspective. ISBN 978-86-82417-29-3.

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