Also, there are many mixed marriages so the fact that people in this province celebrate 2 Christmases shouldn’t surprise you. So, people of both religions live together and respect each other’s traditions and holidays. According to Wikipedia, 85% of the people in Serbia are orthodox by religion, and only 5% are catholic, and most are located in Vojvodina (North Serbia). In case you didn’t know, most of the population in Serbia is orthodox. He has the most fun part in this tradition – to leave presents under the Jelka (New Year’s tree – I will explain it later) for kids to find them on Christmas morning. Also, they have Božić Bata which literally means Christmas Brother. It’s a tradition to have badnjak (a branch of an oak tree). I already wrote about the most common Serbian Christmas Greetings in my previous article, but we can talk about them here.Ĭhristmas Eve Serbs call Badnje veče. I hope that now it makes sense that Serbs call the new calendar “katolički” (catholic) and the old calendar “pravoslavni” (orthodox), whereas we would refer to. Julijanski kalendar ili stari (Julian or old calendar), which the Serbian Orthodox church use. Gregorijanski kalendar ili novi (Gregorian or new calendar) which is the official one. This means that Serbs have two calendars: The whole interesting story about the celebration of 2 Christmases starts with two calendars.
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