Merelots: Remembrance of the Dead after the Nativity · Merelots

Culture of origin: Armenian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Armenian

The day after each of the Armenian Church's five Tabernacle feasts is Merelots, a day of remembrance for the dead: families visit the graves, and priests say the requiem prayers there. This is the first of them, on 7 January, after the Nativity and Theophany.