May 26, 2024: St. Apostle Carpus – what not to do today

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Today you can't clean the house after sunset and go on long trips. If there are many mosquitoes on this day, it is due to warming.

What happened on May 26?

Today, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the holy apostle Karpus, who is one of the 70 apostles. He is known for glorifying faith in Christ, appealing to pagans, and supporting other believers. He was also a bishop on the island of Crete.

Also, May 26, 2024 is Kyiv City Day.

What not to do on May 26:

• clean up in the house after sunset;
• go on long trips;
• quarrel;
• spend large sums of money.

Folk omens and beliefs:

• many mosquitoes – to warming;
• many grasshoppers jump – it will be warm, but it will rain;
• frogs croak loudly – to rain;
• frosts at night – the mornings will be cold for another 40 days.

Born on May 26:

year 1053 – Volodymyr Monomakh, the great prince of Kyiv, prince of Chernihiv and Pereyaslav;

1905 – Aldo Gucci, Italian clothing designer, fashion designer;

1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American rock musician, singer, songwriter.

Also on this day:

1093 – on Ascension Day, the Polovtsy defeat the Russian army in the battle on the Stugna River;

1648 – Bohdan's 15,000-strong Cossack army Khmelnytskyi crushes Mykola Potocki's 18,000-strong Polish army in the Battle of Korsun;

1938 – in the city of Wolfsburg, Adolf Hitler personally lays the first stone for the new construction of the first Volkswagen factory.