An apple fair takes place at the Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius during the Feast of the Transfiguration in Suzdal, Russia on August 19, 2020. Annually celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church on August 19, it belongs to the Twelve Great Christian Feasts. In the Russian tradition, believers bring harvested apples to the church for blessing, hence the feast's another name Yablochny Spas (Apple Feast of the Saviour). (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)
|