Winter Palace
mclisa:
In "The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg." the water color of the Winter Palace church, also called the private chapel in other sources, is called "The Church of the Holy Encounter." I can't identify this name with anything in Western Christian iconography.
Can someone please tell me the Russian name of the church/chapel? I read Russian letters, so it doesn't have to be transliterated. If anyone knows an alternative name in English, I'd like that as well.
Thanks!
xirbis:
Must be "Sretenie" in Church-Slavonic, or "the Encounter of Our Lord with the Righteous Symeon and Anna in the Temple of Jerusalem". Named apparently after one of the Great 12 Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated on the 2d of February (Gregorian Calendar). The Feast commemorates the event of meeting between Child Jesus, Our Lady and the righteous Elders Symeon and Anna, described in the Gospel of Luke. It took place 40 days after the Nativity. The Mother (Our Lady Ever Virgin Mary) followed the law prescribing mothers to take part in a purification ceremony 40 days after a childbirth. The rudiment of this Old Testament practise is present in Orthodox Church's practise even today - see the Evhologion, or Trebnik, or The Book of Needs - the ritual of "Prayer over the mother on the 40Th day after childbirth" - precedes or follows the Ritual of baptism.
mclisa:
Thank you! This event is normally called The Presentation (in the Temple) in English, and less commonly The Purification (of the Virgin.) The February 2nd date proves it.
I can't blame the translator for giving the literal English translation of the Slavonic title, and not realizing that the feast is called by a different name in English.
Bolshoe spasibo!
Mike:
This chapel was usually referred to as the Small Church, but its official name was Tserkov' Sreteniya Gospodnya - Candlemas Church, isn't it?
mclisa:
Thanks, Mike. Candlemas is of course the colloquial name for this feast in English, since it was customary in pre-Reformation England to bless candles for the coming church year on this date.
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