Saints of the Orthodox Church are proclaimed by the Holy Council of Bishops of the local Church (in Poland - Holy Council of Bishops of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church) by canonization, and then by the decision of the authorities of other local Churches are included in the group of saints worshiped in those Churches. In accordance with the provisions of the Seventh General Council of Nice (year 787), the Orthodox worship (Greek προσκύνηση - worship, unlike Greek λατρεία - adoration, belonging only to God) to the saints, first of all their relics as deified bodies of saints, and presenting them icons. To establish the Holy Synod, which took exclusive right to canonization; Local synods in the years 1547–1721 amounted to 180 figures on the altar as saints. Memories of saints are assigned to each day of the liturgical year (from several to several dozen items per day), they function in the liturgical texts of Jutrznia, Vespers and the Divine Liturgy (poetic stanzas of the so-called stichery, troparions or condoms), in which the type of their holiness and life events. The day of special recollection of the saints is Saturday, which is associated with the highlighting of the hymnography of the saints falling on that day. The Orthodox also celebrate All Saints' Day, when they are symbolically remembered canonized in the history of the Orthodox Church. It is a movable feast that falls on the first Sunday after the feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles (Pentecost).
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