On November 1, we celebrate the National Revival Leaders' Day. On this day, tribute is paid to the work of writers, educators, fighters for national liberation, who preserved the spiritual values of the nation and its morals over the centuries.
Among the names of the most revered folk revivalists are Saint Ivan Rilski, Vladislav Gramatik, Paisiy Hilendarski, Neofit Rilski, Vasil Levski, Hristo Botev, Hadji Dimitar, Ivan Vazov, Lyuben Karavelov and others.
The fame of the first leader of the Bulgarian National Revival deservedly goes to Paisius Hilendarski (Paisii of Hilendar monastery). Our people know and honor him as Father Paisius. In the distant past, more than two and a half centuries ago, in 1762, Paisiy of Hilendar wrote his "Slavic Bulgarian History". His first follower was Bishop Sophronius Vratchanski (town in Bulgaria). In difficult times for Bulgarians, he wrote books about education and worked for political liberation.
Sophronius Vrachanski, Joasaf Bdinski, Grigoriy Tsamblak, Konstantin Kostenechki, Vladislav Gramatik, Pope Peyo, Matej Gramatik, St. Ivan Rilski, Neofit Bozveli, the brothers Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinovi, Georgi S. Rakovski, Vasil Levski, Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov, Stefan Karadzha, Hadji Dimitar, Lyuben Karavelov, Dobri Chintulov and hundreds of other saviors of national consciousness and Bulgarian self-awareness.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria, both the intelligentsia and the mass people are aware of the feat of the Renaissance writers and revolutionaries who created the atmosphere and led the Bulgarian spirit to the determination to lead a struggle for state sovereignty.
The holiday was celebrated for the first time in 1909 in Plovdiv. In 1922, Stoyan Omarchevski, Minister of Public Education of Bulgaria, submitted a proposal to the Council of Ministers to designate November 1 as the Day of the Bulgarian People's Awakeners. From November 1, 1923, by decree of Tsar Boris III, it was declared a national holiday in memory of the deserving Bulgarians. From 1922 to 1945 it was a national holiday. Since 1945, the holiday has been canceled and after a long break, with the Law on Supplementing the Labor Code, adopted by the 36th National Assembly on October 28, 1992, the tradition of the holiday was resumed.
The first of November has been officially declared the National Revival Leaders' Day and an absentee day for all educational institutions in the country. /BGNES
