The holiday of resistance to the occupiers. August 14 - the first Savior, which marks the Old Testament resistance of the enemy, Christian healing and Ukrainian well -being
Koliyivshchyna was engaged, which largely resonated with the Old Testament of Judas Macavei against the Syrian-Greek oppressors. Video of the day to kill all the locals, and in their place to settle foreigners-this was the task of the voivode of Apolonia at the head of a 2,000th troops, which in 166 before Christmas was occupied by Jerusalem. The order was given by Antiochic Epiphan IV, the king of the Syrian Empire of the Seleucids.
There, after the conquests of Alexander the Great began to adopt Greek culture and beliefs. For one and a half centuries, this seal was delayed by the Jews of that time. However, the patriotic majority of the people neglected foreign traditions, which caused the anger of the formal suzerain from which the later authors wrote the image of the devil.
The second book of Macaveeus of the Old Testament reports so on the arbitrariness of the conquerors in the ancient Judea: “An angry, like a wild animal, [King Antioch] stormed Jerusalem. He ordered his warriors without regret to cut those whom they would meet and kill those who hid in the homes. There was a massacre of young and old, murder of women and children, extermination of virgins and infants.
" The Syrians staged a slaughterhouse on Saturday, a sacred day for Jews when they could not take their weapons and defend themselves. The city was flattened, and in the main temple of the Jews put sculpture of Zeus of Olympic. King Antioch Epiphan IV forbade the celebration of Saturday and comply with the regulations of Moses. At the time of this persecution, the 90-year-old priest Eleazar, Solomonia and her seven sons-Macaveian martyrs became the symbols of resistance.
The conquerors, as well as the Jewish apostates from sympathy for the righteous elder, made him eaten by the allowed meat, and before his people he consumed that he consumes forbidden pork. Eleazar refused not to induce young people to sin. Despite its torture, he prayed heartily and died, leaving the people an example of stability. After Eleazar, seven students, sons of Solomonia, were killed by a martyrdom. She saw the death of her child, but cheered them up, encouraging courage.
Each of the sons showed a relentlessness from faith. Antioch did not expect such resistance. In order not to disgrace in the eyes of the people present, he promised to pardon the youngest son of Solomon, if the mother made him obey, but this call of the occupier was in vain. After that, the youngest son and mother were killed in severe torment, but did not renounce their laws.
The sustainability of the brothers inspired Judas Macavei to raise the uprising - the invaders were expelled from Jerusalem, and the temple was cleared of foreign idols. Several centuries, when Christianity became the state religion of most European countries, the Byzantine emperors began the tradition of removing the Life -Creation Cross on the day of Macaveev's honoring.
The remnants of the same torture tool on which the Son of God was crucified was found by Empress Elena approximately in the early IV century. And for the subsequent 500 years of prayer, and as lucky, the touch of relics healed, saved believers - in August the Byzantine capital was experiencing peak seasonal diseases every year. According to one of the chronicle versions, Prince Vladimir of Kiev accepted the baptism of this holiday.
Before the ancient events, on August 14, he also has its Ukrainian parallel. On this day in 1775, the Russian Queen Catherine II signed a decree on the liquidation of Zaporozhye Sich. When the priests told the believers about Macaveev, the people associated them with their domestic heroes, which intertwined with the hopes of a good end of the investor times and all sorts of all.