According to the sacred tradition, the Archangel Gabriel S. According to the virgin, he will be transported to heaven in three days. He calls the relatives, Christian women, the apostles, and expresses his imminent death. . The apostles were crying, the apostle John, giving a board a board, says: "Give us your picture."
St. Mary touches the board on the face, wetting it with its tears, and then depends on her face, and then, according to the tradition, the painting of the Virgin Mother of God. The apostles are in the bodies of the Holy Virgin in a cave in Gethsemane.
Bartholomew, which S. During the sleeping of the Mother of God, it was missing from Jerusalem. At the very farewell request, the apostles open the grave and see in surprise that the Body of the Mother of God is not there. We express the death of the Holy Virging by the word "sleep" to show him to the heavens. In the Armenian Church, St. On the day of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Virgin, S. After the liturgy, a grape blessing ceremony is performed.
The grapes were chosen from the fruit because Jesus likened him to the vessel of the grapes (John 18: 1).
