Светците в „Абагар“ на Филип Станиславов – майски цикъл (розарий) и народен календар

Abstract

The article is focused on the Images of Saints in one Cyrillic old printed book edited in Rome by the catholic bishop Philip Stanislavov for Bulgarian people. There are interesting sequences of images found there for the first time. They form different cycles – a catholic Rosary of the Virgin (saints and their feasts in May) and All Year Folk Calendar with its beginning also in May. It should be noticed that there is also one other Year Calendar, based on the Gregorian one and constructed according to the Bulgarian folklore perception. The content of the article is built upon the dichotomy between text and image. In that context some of the engravings have been analyzed semantically, to discov-er the relation between Abagar and Bulgarian Folklore provided with the mediation of hagiography, South Slav's apocryphal tradition and also with universal symbols.