The huts of the festival require real confectionery and hagiographic art.
On Mount Athos, there is no separate memorial service for the monks, but for the sleeping ones. On the one hand, the Abbots of the last 100 years are commemorated, and on the other, priests and monks of the last 30 years. Baths are made whenever an icon is placed in the temple for worship. On Saturday, however, they become huts for the sleeping, unless it happens to be a despotic holiday. It is a tin plate with boiled starch that is placed under the image of Christ.
The festivity huts require real confectionery and hagiographic art.
Usually the founder or the Saint in whose name the catholicon is honored is painted on its surface, e.g. Saint Athanasios the Athonite in the Great Lavra, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary in the Vatopedi Monastery.
The usual bathing is done as follows:
They put beaten wheat (crushed) in the water to swell.
They boil it in cold water.
In half an hour they pour out the water and add another that boils, until the wheat turns into a rose and its juice becomes porridge.
They add a little salt.
Then they take the juice, which is made like a drink with sugar and cinnamon.
Then they wash the wheat with cold water to remove its glue and spread it out to dry.
Two to three hours before the Divine Liturgy, the minister takes finely ground nuts and throws a handful into the huts, to absorb the moisture, so that they are dry.
Then he will sift it, to remove the nut. The wheat is now ready.
He layers it and on top of it he layers the sugar (not powdered, but crystal) and makes a cross with cinnamon colored sugar.
If he wants, he mixes the wheat with ground hazelnut beforehand.
He adds grated walnut, pounded cloves, cumin to the bath of the celebration.
Instead of walnuts in some monasteries they put roasted grated hazelnuts (the skins are removed) and cinnamon instead of nutmeg.
For the hagiographies on the surface of the pool, they take the wooden end of a fine painting brush and press the pattern on the sugar from the anthivolo.
In this way they fill the clothes, the face, the hair with sugar of different colors.
The ordinary bath is the daily sweet of the monks in the commons, which is shared in the Bank at the end.
On Mount Athos, the Russians are used to making kolyvu not with wheat, but with rice, as in Russia.
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