GREECE - Happy Easter friends

 

GREECE Happy Easter Friends

Teacher Evgenia Karoki

Teacher: Katse Apostolia

Τeacher: Sofia Matsouliadou  /  Art Teacher: Evangelia Kralli

Teacher Sofia Matsouliadou

Teacher Aikaterini Serafeim

Traditional Sweet Bobota

The tradition of Lady Lent - Greece

The custom of Lent is one of the oldest customs associated with the celebration of Easter, but today it is more or less forgotten. It has always served as a calendar to count the weeks from Clean Monday to Holy Week, as Lent's has 7 feet, one for each week of the Lent period. It is a custom that tends to disappear nowadays, while in the past we met it all over Greece with various variations and it was used as a calendar that counted the weeks of Lent.
Lady Lent, in most areas, was a paper painting depicting a woman, who looked like a nun, with 7 legs, crossed arms because she prays, a cross because she went to church and without a mouth because she fasted. At the end of each week, starting on Saturday after Shrove Monday, one of her legs was cut off. The last one was cut on Holy Saturday. This piece of paper was folded well and hidden in a dried fig or walnut (Chios area), which they placed together with others. Whoever found it was considered lucky and lucky. In some areas, the seventh leg was placed in the bread of the Resurrection and whoever found it brought good luck. 

Every Clean Monday we have the tradition of the Kites! The kite symbolizes the flight of the human soul to Sky and God!

Clean Monday - Greece

15/3/2021

Clean Monday is a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoor excursions, the consumption of shellfish and other fasting food, a special kind of azyme bread, baked only on that day, named "lagana" and the widespread custom of flying kites.

Good sesame halva (also known as grocer halva or tahini halva) has the first and last word on the festive table of Clean Monday.