HAPPY PATRON'S DAY BELGRADE: Here's how the Ascension became a patron of our capital!

The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and its believers are celebrating the Ascension holiday, which is popularly known as Ascension.

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Ascension is one of the holidays dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ, which is celebrated 40 days after Easter, and ten days before the Holy Trinity (Pentecost), and always on Thursday.

Ascension is the memory of the day when Jesus Christ, forty days after his resurrection last spoke to his students - the Twelve Apostles and ascended into heaven, and "sat down at the right hand of God."

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Ascension is the patron of the City of Belgrade, who thus keeps the memory of that day in 1403 when Despot Stefan Lazarevic proclaimed the Serbian capital, and a religious holiday for the city .

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Ascension was restored in 1993, when in the streets of downtown Belgrade, the procession passed for the first time after 46 years.

The procession has an established route, symbolically closing the circle in the yard of the Ascension Church (Vaznesenske Crkve), which is built as a city temple.

The marking of the Saint Day will begin with liturgy in the Church of Ascension (Vaznesenske Crkve) at 9 am, while the procession of the central city streets will begin around 11:30. The procession, in which will participate the cavalry, will stop at the Terazije fountain, the Saborna Church and the yard of the Ascension Church, where there will be a moment to reflect on the civilians killed during the the bombing of Belgrade on April 6, 1941.

The Ascension Day procession will start at the street of Admirala Geprata, where it will to continue onto Knez Milos Street, Kralja Milan, Terazije, Knez Mihailova, Pariska, Knez Sime Markovica, Brankova, Kraljice Natalije up to Dobrinjska.

(Telegraf.co.uk)