St George's Day (Đurđevdan) · Đurđevdan

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Eastern Orthodox

Đurđevdan, George's Day in Spring, falls on 23 April Julian, 6 May until 2100. It is one of the most common family patron-saint days (slava) among Serbs, Yuri's Day of Spring in Russia and Gjurgovden in North Macedonia; Bulgaria, though on the new calendar, keeps Gergyovden on 6 May as a public holiday and the Day of the Bulgarian Army. Homes are decked with greenery and flowers, lamb is roasted, and people wash in flower water, dew or spring water. In Georgia it is the feast of George's beheading, the second of his two days there.