Bulgarian Student Day (08/12)

Student youth in Bulgaria celebrate their holiday — Student Day — December 8. This date is connected with the history of the Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.

In 1903, when Sofia University (SU) was the only higher education institution in Bulgaria, the academic council under the SU decided to declare December 8 a patronal holiday of the university. According to the church calendar, it was then that the day of St. Clement of Ohrid was celebrated.

Clement of Ohrid was one of the five surviving disciples of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius in Bulgaria. In the city of Ohrid (now within the Republic of Macedonia), at the end of the 9th century, at the Ohrid Monastery, he founded a large cultural and educational school, the purpose of which was to educate and educate the new cultural elite of Bulgaria.

Clement of Ohrid — is a worthy heir to the great work of the authors of ancient Slavic writing. He reformed the Glagolitic alphabet of Cyril and Methodius, bringing the graphics of the letters of the new letter as close as possible to the graphics of the Greek letters. In Ohrid, all church and liturgical books that were sent to all parts of Bulgaria were soon translated into Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian). Thanks to the acquisition of its new writing, the first Slavic state in Europe celebrated its Golden Age.

After 1944, the celebration of the student holiday in Bulgaria was postponed to November 17 (International Students' Day). But in 1962, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Sofia University, the holiday was returned to its old date, and since 1994, December 8 was declared a non-study day and the Day of Bulgarian Students.

On this day, higher education institutions throughout Bulgaria are closed, and students celebrate their holiday in noisy companies.

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