According to the folk calendar - Feodosia Kolosyatnitsa

Feodosia Kolosyatnitsa is celebrated according to the folk calendar on June 11 (May 29, old style) The date received part of its name from the name of Saint Theodosius of Constantinople, a Christian martyr revered by the Orthodox Church on this day The life of Theodosia began in the 8th century in Constantinople After the death of her parents, the girl was taken to be raised in a convent built in honor of Saint Anastasia There, Theodosia took monastic vows as a nun The girl distributed the inheritance she received to the poor, and gave part of it to the painting of holy icons During the period of the iconoclastic heresy, Theodosia fiercely defended the icons, for which the virgin was tortured and executed The people called Feodosia Kolosyatnitsa, since by this date ears of corn appeared on the sown fields The rye began to ear first Any process in its development and maturation was measured in two-week phases They said that rye grows for two weeks, then two weeks it blooms and heads, the next two the ear gains, the last two it dries Theodosya Kolosyatnitsa Day was compared to a difficult Monday, so they tried not to work on this date It was forbidden to bleach fabrics In the morning, the women went out into the field and watched the rye gain an ear They prayed for her harvest and bowed low to the earth On this day, young people gathered in pairs near the rye field The couples stood in a row, each of them holding hands tightly, forming a bridge A dressed-up girl walked across the bridge, the couple whose hands she passed ran to the end of the row and again crossed their arms for the bridge So the girl was escorted to the rye field, then she went down, plucked several ears of corn and carried them to the temple They believed that the earth was pregnant during Kolosyatnitsa, so it was forbidden to jump, jump or kick the ground, so as not to disturb it Otherwise, the land could respond with a small harvest During the day, peasants fed their livestock with bread cakes and bagels so that they would produce good offspring The second name of the date was Theodosya Grechishnitsa In the southern regions, ears of buckwheat were collected behind rye And in the northern regions it was sowed late In addition to its useful harvest, buckwheat was valued for its inflorescences, as they were an excellent honey plant If it rained on Feodosia Kolosyatnitsa, the residents expected a generous rye harvest If the ears of rye were well formed, then they prepared for an abundance of boletus mushrooms, but the poor formation of ears foreshadowed few mushrooms in the forest If the ear began to bloom from the ground, then the price of rye bread was assumed to be low; flowering only at the tops promised a high price for bread